User talk:Benh/Archive/2009

Utilisation photo

Bonjour Benh, Je suis tombé sur ta photo de l’arc de triomphe. L’angle est excellent et les couleurs extraordinaires. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Arc_Triomphe.jpg J’ai lu les commentaires et demandes d’autres intervenants pour utiliser tes photos. Je souhaiterai donc également avoir ta permission pour utiliser cette photo dans une plaquette de présentation de la société dans laquelle je travaille. Je te remercie de bien vouloir m’indiquer si tu es d’accord et, le cas échéant, comment procéder par la suite. Voici mon adresse email : alexandre.james@gmail.com Merci. 03 février 2009 Alexandre

Bonjour, je suis désolé, j'ai été très occupé ces derniers mois. Toutes mes photos sont sous licence libre. Grosso modo, la seule obligation est de mentionner l'auteur. Bonne continuation. Benh (talk) 08:48, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Closing a featured picture

Hi, when you are closing a featured picture promotion request, you should also edit the title of the candidate image template and add after the image tag
featured or not featured
For example:
=== [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]] === becomes === [[:File:XXXXX.jpg]], featured ===.

Best regards.--Mywood (talk) 11:58, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Droits pour utilisation d'une image

Bonjour, Je souhaiterais vous contacter de manière privée pour discuter l'utilisation de l'une de vos images à titre professionnel. Je vous remercie d'avance de me contacter à noemie@rallyphoto.ch le plus rapidement possible, Meilleures salutations noémie

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Cascades Sautadet.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Great shot! Kallerna 15:40, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! St-Vaast Catamaran Wikimedia Commons.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments good details and colours --Mbdortmund 22:33, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

TE

Nice one!! Lycaon (talk) 21:26, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks ! Actually, that is a trivial shot so I thought someone else would have come up with a similar pic soon or later. But Joaquim Alvesgaspar made me realise that Commons lacked a good quality picture of the tower and that this wouldn't likely change fast so... I'm very proud you like it. Benh (talk) 21:42, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Image de Valeur

Bonjour,

J'ai proposé ta photo de la Tour Eiffel : Commons:Valued_image_candidates/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg. Cordialement, Yann (talk) 15:12, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Bonjour, it is a very nice image, but it should be geocoded to be eligible for VI. Could you do that please? --Slaunger (talk) 15:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Hej ! it's now geocoded. Thanks. Benh (talk) 16:39, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Tak! --Slaunger (talk) 17:14, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

FP nom

Hi Benh, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated one of your images at FPC. I hope you don't mind, :-) Maedin\^talk 19:22, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Happy Birthday :)

Hey Benh, just saw that you turned 30 with a sad face :´( There is nothing to be sad about - I am 30 since half a year now and survived it quite well so far. 30 is just a number. Anyway: Happy Birthday! :) Greetings Matthias --AngMoKio (talk) 22:45, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

FP promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Tour Eiffel Wikimedia Commons.jpg, which was nominated by Alvesgaspar at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Tour Eiffel Wikimedia Commons.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Tour Eiffel.
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review

 Info - I agree, but needs to move to MVR together with the present VI -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:59, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

•  Request Excellent image, but it should be geocoded. That should be relatively easy, but perhaps benh should do it for optimal precision? --Slaunger (talk) 15:04, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
  •  Done, from exactly where I took it ;) -- Benh (talk) 16:41, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
    •  Info And I added a North-Western heading. --Slaunger (talk) 12:19, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
      • Thanks. I'd like to add, in case some don't know, that this is an exact NW heading, as the feets of the tower exactly match the cardinal direction. Benh (talk) 12:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
        • Well, I, for sure did not know, it just appeared to me that it was approximately NW, but nice to know it is also the exact heading. Thank you for enlightening me. --Slaunger (talk) 13:00, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 17:38, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment This photo is not good. The tower has different proportions (Worm's-eye view). Albertus teolog (talk) 17:51, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Well, this is certainly not a worm's-eye view. Yann (talk) 12:00, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
    • I agree a bit with Albertus teolog, and I guess he refers to File:Paryż wieża 4 mod.jpg which is taken from a farther point. My picture doesn't "change" the proportions. Proportions are of course differents depending on where you look at any object from. It's up to reviewers to decide if the point of view is annoying or not (please oppose if you believe this isn't good, I would). If needed, it's very easy for me to perspective correct (this is actually what I did first, but I didn't like the result). Benh (talk) 12:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
      • I certainly would like to see how you can "correct" the perspective of your image, but the quality is so much better than the current VI that it is anyway a better illustration of the scope. Yann (talk) 14:41, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
        • Softwares, such as Hugin, let you easy fix perspective. I'll let you know when I do that ! (but it took me 6 months to answer alvesgapar's request to take that photo so... I hope you're not in a hurry ;) ) Benh (talk) 21:03, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
      • I not opposed to your photos, since I am the author of the alternative images. It was not by to elegant :-) I expressed my reservations only. Albertus teolog (talk) 06:38, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment I don't think perspective correction would be a good idea. I think the perspective should fit the point of view of the picture. If the perspective was corrected, then it would give a false impression on the tower's proportions. --Eusebius (talk) 21:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment - I agree that taking the shot farther away, like in the other image, would result in a better photo. Also agree with Eusebius that an atificial perspective corretion is not a good solution as it would cause a different type of distortion. Until Benh repeats the shot from a better position I guess we will have to live with this one, whose quality is excellent -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 21:59, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
  •  Question Are there terms of quality, or the value? Albertus teolog (talk) 20:12, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

MVR Scores:
Paryż wieża 4 mod.jpg: -1
Tour Eiffel Wikimedia Commons.jpg: +1 <--
=>
File:Paryż wieża 4 mod.jpg: Declined
File:Tour Eiffel Wikimedia Commons.jpg: Promoted <--

Yann (talk) 18:26, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

FP promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Opera Garnier Grand Escalier.jpg, which was nominated by Maedin at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Opera Garnier Grand Escalier.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

Moved message from above

Salut Benh,

je travaille pour une petite agence de communication et on adore ta photo du Louvre à la tombée de la nuit. On aimerait savoir si on peut utiliser ce visuel pour un site que nous sommes en train de créer. Nous serions bien entendu prêt à mettre ton nom dans les mentions légales du site sur les crédits de la photo. Pour être tout à fait franc avec toi, ce site serait à usage commercial. Il n'y aurait pas de vente en ligne mais il s'agit d'un peti commerce qui souhaite avoir un site. Est-ce que c'est OK pour toi?

Merci de ta réponse. Tu peux me contacter sur ma page ou à cette adresse zamsky81@yahoo.fr. Zamsky

Bonjour Zamsky, je te contacterai par mail ce soir, mais tu peux bien sûr utiliser ma photo, même à des fins commerciales, tant que tu mentionnes bien mon nom. Ma photo du Louvre pose souvent le souci du droit d'auteur de la pyramide, mais le consensus et la jurisprudence sont avec moi ; la pyramide est dans un ensemble qui est dans le domaine public et c'est ce qui prévaut. Tu as le droit d'utiliser cette image si tu conserves le contexte autour. Bonne continuation. -- Benh (talk) 17:06, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Paris

Salut Benh,

J'espère que tu va prendre des photos (FP) sur Champs-Élysées, Sacré-Cœur, Conciergerie, Grand Palais, Invalides, Palais Garnier et Père-Lachaise aussi. C'est vraiment bien s'il y a des images de qualité sur tous les monuments connus de Paris. Merci d'avance!--Paris 16 (talk) 18:38, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Merci Benh! J'ai besoin de quelques photos de la bibliothèque Richelieu, surtout la salle Ovale et salle Labrouste. Mais je sais pas il est ouvert ou pas. Peut-être il y a des travaux. Merci!--Paris 16 (talk) 17:28, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Peut-être c'est la raison il n'y a pas beaucoup des photos de la bibliothèque Richelieu sur Commons. De toute façon, merci beaucoup!--Paris 16 (talk) 22:29, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Photographers Blackbelt

		THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLACKBELT
		J'ai l'honneur de vous décerner la Photographers Blackbelt (ceinture noire des photographes) pour vos photos remarquables et excellentes. --ComputerHotline (talk) 18:30, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Photo details

Dear Benh, Your photos are an inspiration for someone just entering digital photography.

I was wondering whether you shot your picture of Saint Michel using HDR techniques? If so, how many exposures did you take and what was the spacing between exposures (+2, +1 2/3, etc).

Much thanks for sharing your work with the world!

Serouj (talk) 00:19, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, thank for your kind words. That photo is made from a single shot, there was no special trick involved :) If you look carefully, you'll see some burnt out details in the center part. The lense was the 18-55mm kit one (not even the IS version !). My most recent shots often involve HDR tricks. I mostly use 3 bracketed shots -2, 0, +2. I use enfuse to combine the pictures. Resulting images often lacks contrast and saturation so I manually adjust with Gimp. There probably are better soft out there. Benh (talk) 09:19, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Opera Garnier

Hi Benh,

I just came across your photo of the Opera Garnier Grand Escalier and i was amaze, not only at the actual shot but also the quality.

I would love to use it as a background for a project i'm woking on. I need a larger size so

I can blow it up to about 12 feet. Is this possible? and if so how do i go about getting that?

Thank you Lpereyra (talk) 21:02, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi ! Thank you for the kind words ! Unfortunately, I don't have bigger size of the picture of Opera Garnier grand stair. I remember I downsampled the picture because of its very poor quality (taken at ISO 1600 and f/2.8) and had then deleted the RAWs. Sorry. Benh (talk) 09:19, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Eiffel Tower Permission?

Hi Benh,

I'm working on an educational DVD on beginning chemistry. May I have permission to show your top of the Eiffel Tower for the "Iron Segment" under a Creative Commons Attribute License for this project? I'll list your name and wiki site in the credits.

Regards, Wes --Wesolson123 (talk) 17:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, as stated by the license, you are free to do so, as long as you give proper credits, which is what you want to do. Crediting wiki is not necessary, but doesn't harm anyone ! Because of the subject, be sure to read the warning about copyright status and understand the underlying consequences before doing anything. Thanks ! Benh (talk) 10:10, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Permission Request to Publish Eiffel Tower Photo

Dear Benh,

Your photo, "Eiffel Tower, seen from the champ de Mars, Paris, France," is absolutely wonderful and I would like permission to publish it in Materials Performance magazine with an article on the current repainting of the Eiffel Tower. If permission is granted, could you please let me know how you would like the photo credit to read. Thank you!

Kathy

Hi Kathy, I've sent you email and removed your address as "safety" measure. Benh (talk) 10:12, 21 September 2009 (UTC)