Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Aharbal Waterfall

Aharbal Waterfall

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 15 Jun 2014 at 06:13:05 (UTC)

Original – Waterfall at hill station Aharbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Reason: One of the few pictures of the place available. Only picture in the wikipedia article.
Articles in which this image appears: Aharbal
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Places
Creator: Akshey25

Support as nominator – Akshey25 (talk) 06:13, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I think you need to pay more consideration to composition. The fact that you haven't taken it from the edge of the guard rail is a considerable issue for composition. Also, the image is not very sharp. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 07:38, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment---The edge of guard rail is inaccessible. This is the best angle available.Akshey25 (talk) 09:26, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean... – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:41, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So what's your verdict, Juliancolton? Akshey25 (talk) 03:59, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, what a terrible lookout. ;-) It's a shame that they haven't made it safe and nice looking. But my verdict hasn't changed. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:16, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm completely neutral, honestly. It's obviously not the best waterfall picture ever taken: the clunky angle, unsightly metal guardrail, concrete ledge lend it a sort of 'snapshot' quality that many casual readers are sure to find subpar for an FP. The technical quality of the photo leaves much to be desired, also; it's quite noisy, soft (a bit of motion blur?), likely tilted clockwise, and overexposed on parts of the falls themselves. The light inside the gorge isn't bad, however. All that said, there aren't many pictures of this waterfall online, and even fewer 'good' ones, likely attributable to the barricades and hordes of sightseers evident from my link ↑. I doubt you would be able to get a tripod set up and create a fine art-grade photo of this particular spot, so I think the nominated picture might be about as close as we're going to get to an FP-level shot of this waterfall. Normally I would be more willing to support a less-than-stellar photo of a difficult spot, but I'm not convinced that it's impossible to take an incrementally better picture here. It's definitely a valuable addition to the project and I thank you for your efforts and contribution. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:03, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The composition is only a minor issue in this image to me, I think it would be fine without the concrete. My main issue is with the quality of the image, it looks good at thumbnail size, but when you view it at 100% it's evidently quite unsharp, noisy and has strong chromatic aberrations on the water. Despite this I agree with Juliancolton that the image is still a valuable addition to the project, but sadly not one of the best. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 13:59, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:16, 15 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]