Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Circumpolar trails and sunset at the La Hague lighthouse, France

Circumpolar trails and sunset at the La Hague lighthouse, Normandy, France[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Jul 2023 at 04:02:03 (UTC)

Reason: Very high quality image and the only FP on Commoms related to the La Hague lighthouse and circumpolar light trails. Also a finalist for Picture of The Year 2017 on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: Star trails
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others
Creator: Antoine Lamielle

Support as nominator – Aviafanboi (talk) 04:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The lighthouse is definitely out of focus, and the whole thing has a strange watercolor blur thing going on. 〜 Festucalex • talk 04:47, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not as valuable as infobox image. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:21, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - star trails are dotted due to intervals between exposures. Oh, I remember the days when you could expose several hours on film... --Janke | Talk 17:34, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – I prefer and will support the lead image of the article if it's nominated. That image can also be added as lead image in the Diurnal motion article. Bammesk (talk) 18:44, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Even that one looks pretty weird in full size, the trails are all chopped up... Looks like it is upscaled from a smaller original (I checked the tiff file on the ESO site, it's the same). --Janke | Talk 20:11, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The dotting is part of digital photography. It [1] isn't upscaled, the landscape ambient light (moon/sun/etc.) changes over 6 hours of exposure (judging by star trails), so the result is smooth, averaged, silky looking. It's not a defect. Bammesk (talk) 12:42, 2 July 2023 (UTC) . . . . This image, if nominated, needs editing though. There are some dots (may be dead pixels) in the top middle area. Bammesk (talk) 02:52, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:30, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]