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File:Tiburon (50684).jpg

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•  Info all by me — Rhododendrites ^talk |  23:03, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Railroad & Ferry Depot Museum in Tiburon, California, looking out to San Francisco Bay. The museum is on the National Register of Historic Places, but I don't think the building is likely to wow many people; it's the composition of the image that I quite like, and the slice of the San Francisco Bay area that it captures (Angel Island is in the immediate background, and you can see the city skyline in the far distance, behind the little sailboat). — Rhododendrites ^talk |  23:03, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice. PumpkinSky talk 23:15, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose The bottom crop is suboptimal, with a patch of grass in the middle that serves no purpose. Either include more at the bottom or crop it out entirely. (A bit brighter wouldn't hurt either, but I'm mostly opposing because of the composition.) -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:36, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

• @King of Hearts: Are you envisioning something like this? (I've uploaded a crop and then restored the original pending opinions from the two other people that have weighed in, PumpkinSky and Johann Jaritz). — Rhododendrites ^talk |  02:13, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

I can support either crop but I think the new one is slightly better. PumpkinSky talk 02:17, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

That would be better, yes. It's still a little bit underexposed (the whites should be close to 255 without exceeding it), and the technical issues mentioned by Julian should be fixed. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:22, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support contingent on a few improvements. I do mostly like the composition (the sailboat is a small but excellent touch) but as KoH says, the grass near the bottom could be cropped out without cutting into the bottom of the closest bollard... content-aware fill may do a decent job of cloning it out without cropping. Also, I would run it through lens profile corrections to remove color fringing, vignetting, and minor distortion. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:14, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

• @Juliancolton and King of Hearts: It's an Olympus MFT camera, so lens corrections are built into the raw file (discovered this when trying to figure out where the profile for it was in Lightroom). That said, I've gone in and done some manual defringing. Also did a bit of a perspective adjustment to address the distortion issue you mentioned. That necessitated a bit different crop. Brightened a little bit, and applied a minor vignetting correction. The result is here (again, I've reverted to the original for FPC purposes, but will change if there's a broad sense this new version is an improvement). Thanks for your feedback. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  06:13, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

• Oh, I didn't know that! You learn something new every day. :) Yes, I think the linked revision is notably improved. Hopefully enough other participants chime in to endorse making that the live version. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:44, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

• @King of Hearts, PetarM, and Daniel Case: Just a ping to see if you agree that this version sufficiently addresses these concerns? If so I will switch to that version and ping those who have supported thus far just in case. Thanks.— Rhododendrites ^talk |  18:00, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

•  Support There are two albatrosses sitting on the roof, which is really nice. --Shishir 6:04 22, September 2017 (UTC)
• Would support, but grass should be croped. --Mile (talk) 08:38, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Support HalfGig talk 11:10, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose The building and the coastline across the bay (?) behind it might make a featurable image, but per King I find the riprap, pathway and bollards below it to be distracting. Daniel Case (talk) 16:22, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose I do agree with KoH actually, and as you already mention above, Rhododendrites, the object is not really wowing (old/historic in the States it not surely not what we'd consider old/historic in Europe). I believe that I'd liked to see more of the bay on the right. With this composition both the bay and the building are fighting for attention. There is also visible green CA, that should be removed --Poco² 17:54, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose as per comments above. Yann (talk) 21:10, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose composition. Saffron Blaze (talk) 00:14, 23 September 2017 (UTC)