Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kosciusko Lakes

Kosciusko Lakes

Aerial view of Kosciusko County, Indiana

File:Kosciusko-county-lakes-alternate.jpg

Version #2 with haze/lightness altered.

An excellent aerial shot of the landscape of Kosciusko County, Indiana (and used in that article) taken by new(ish) wikipedian User:Tysto. It looks great, but more importantly it gives a really great idea of how the land looks and how the landscape has been altered by man. The tangential light gives a better impression of the relief than you'd get from any map. Wow.

• Nominate and support. - Finlay McWalter | Talk July 9, 2005 00:14 (UTC)
• What a gnarly shot! However, there seems to be a fairly limited color palette... sort of strange for such a high resolution. It looks more like a camera thing than a compression issue, but if it is compressed it would be great to get the original. The haze on the top is sort of distracting as well, but I don't know what the image would look like without it. - Matthew Cieplak ^{(talk) (edits)} 08:42, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • I've added an alternate version with the haze color burned in photoshop. It looks a little unnatural, but if this is preferred I can spend a bit more time on another version and make it look better. - Matthew Cieplak ^{(talk) (edits)} 08:50, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • One last thing: it could probably be illustrating an article that's a somewhat more general, such as the landscape type it shows. Not knowing what to call that landscape except "plains" I don't know where specifically to put it. - Matthew Cieplak ^{(talk) (edits)} 08:52, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Too grainy. Enochlau 03:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. There's a lot to like here, most especially the oblique lighting. I don't understand the graininess/posterisation on the full view, its not your standard camera noise - in practice the picture only looks good at reduced sizes and even then there's quite a lot of noise visible in the lakes. The Silver Lake picture looks a fair but crisper. It would also be nice if the Kosciusko County, Indiana article spent a bit of time discussing the geography of the county. The image caption suggests that these small lakes in an arid region are characteristic of the county. -- Solipsist 07:25, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support version 2. Excellent aerial view. — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:14, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Not promoted 2 / 2 / 0 --Spangineer (háblame) 21:34, July 25, 2005 (UTC)