Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Sgùrr nan Gillean from Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland - Diliff.jpg

Sgùrr nan Gillean[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jul 2014 at 19:10:52 (UTC)

Reason: It's a crisp, high resolution, aesthetically pleasing view of the mountain of Sgùrr nan Gillean, as well as the surrounding landscape and vegetation. Weather and visibility was close to perfect. The image is 40 megapixels and sharp at 100%.
Articles in which this image appears: Sgùrr nan Gillean and Cuillin
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator: User:Diliff

Support as nominator – Ðiliff «» (Talk) 19:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - another excellent pic meeting all requirements. I can confirm sharpness at 100% Coat of Many Colours (talk) 21:08, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Another great landscape image. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:48, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support excellent quality and great work as usual. Nikhil (talk) 02:47, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Seems good! Looks like a wide angle lens, not quite sure if your using the 5D Mark 3 or a better full-frame camera. ///EuroCarGT 03:22, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- It's still the 5D Mk iii. It's a stitched image which has been downsampled slightly. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 08:28, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - So it's a photomerge. Thought you were using a 16-35 or 17-40mm lens. ///EuroCarGT 03:02, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak Oppose~~, with regret. Technically high standard but not an outstanding photograph. This is one of the most photogenic places in Scotland yet the landscape is not imaginatively captured nor is the time of day/year or weather showing it at its best [though it is far from the worst weather!]. The choice of viewpoint and wide-angle means the subject is quite small in the frame, which is particularly noticeable in thumbnail. The burn is rather dry so not adding any drama or interest. The relatively high viewpoint leaves the grassy moorland in the middle to fill much of the frame and stops the burn successfully leading the eye towards the peaks. Compare this and this, which make use of a bridge to add foreground interest. Compare this which has dramatic water. Compare this and this which have a considerably more photogenic time of year and day. The subject is great, but the other things are the difference between an FP and not. -- Colin°^Talk 12:49, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I don't know. One doesn't always have to have the dramatic effects in mind. Mountains are nice as they are, and this picture has it points as it is, right now. It shows a much wider area, which is good, and it is taken in the summer, so it can't be snow on top. The other ones show more of the rocks as a foreground, but this shows more of the whole area. Hafspajen (talk) 20:37, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I struggled with deciding between weak oppose and neutral. I'd be more comfortable with a straight oppose on Commons, as there simply isn't enough wow (esp for a subject that can be photographed with plenty wow). Mere technical utility isn't sufficient for en:fp either -- it needs a little magic to make it among the "finest". But nobody should let my vote influence their decision/opinion -- there are plenty fine attributes about this image too. -- Colin°^Talk 08:35, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support *sigh* I think I'm guilty of judging this one what it could be rather than what it is. I've seen many wonderful photos of this mountain range on postcards and calendars that my reaction was a bit of a let down on seeing this. But looking at it again today, I see colours blending from warm rocks through green moorland to grey mountain tops to blue sky. This is what it looks like on a fine sunny summer's day, rather than on a calendar. -- Colin°^Talk 16:19, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support thanks, Colin. Hafspajen (talk) 20:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support A very pretty picture and a good representation of the landscape. Pteronura brasiliensis 18:14, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Could you add geocoding please? Yann (talk) 12:28, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- sorry, I usually add geocoding for all of my images, just forgot this one. Done now. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:48, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Easy decision. Stunning photograph with fantastic EV. J Milburn (talk) 10:30, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Sgùrr nan Gillean from Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland - Diliff.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:11, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]