Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:The Milky Way over Germany.png

Image:The Milky Way over Germany.png, not featured

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•  Info created by Zwiebackgesicht - uploaded by Zwiebackgesicht - nominated by Zwiebackgesicht -- Zwiebackgesicht (talk) 03:06, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Zwiebackgesicht (talk) 03:06, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 08:06, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
• Why PNG? I would support a JPEG version. Yann (talk) 12:31, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Neutral{{s}} --Harlock81 (talk) 13:35, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
  • I change my position since no answer has arrived to the questions below. --Harlock81 (talk) 10:27, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Comment I've never seen the Milky Way look anything like this. Charlesjsharp (talk) 14:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Comment Per Charles, the colours certainly do look very strange. I'd like to know more about how this picture was taken. Was it during an aurora, or is a special filter being used? Cmao20 (talk) 16:09, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

  The image was strongly edited : the milky way was brightened a lot and everything else extremely darkened with a painting brush. Also the stars are sadly out of focus (these shots always require manual focus and usually to achieve a good focus on the stars the cursor must be set just slightly before infinity because at infinity the focus is always missed, at least on Sony cameras but I don't know what camera was used for this one since the exif data are missing). As for the colors they are either a side effect of the strong edits or were painted in the image with a brush -- Giles Laurent (talk) 17:09, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

•  Support Je-str (talk) 19:59, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Giles Laurent. Surprised this is still picking up support votes. Cmao20 (talk) 22:32, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose What are these red and green stripes? The picture also looks overprocessed -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:47, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose Finally no, per others. Yann (talk) 12:05, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
•  Comment I agree with the reviewers that the image looks relatively colorful compared to other images of the Milky Way. So far I have no experience with this kind of photography. But as I remember from the weather reports, there were some unusual aurora observations in Germany in August this year. Maybe that influenced this photo, but I'm just guessing. @Zwiebackgesicht: I took the liberty of creating a version with less saturation, a little less noise, and more sharpening. I also applied the sRGB color profile to ensure a consistent display on most monitors. The file was saved in the slowest mode, which reduced the file size by 20 MB while maintaining the same quality. Please see the SwissTransfer link 1/2. This is just a suggestion to be helpful, if this version is an improvement for the community and for you, please feel free to use it for an update. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 07:58, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

•  Comment It is certainly a lot better, but I don't know how much of the colours here are trustworthy. It's hard to know how far the original manipulations went and thus how far they should be reversed. Cmao20 (talk) 22:19, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

• The contrast is still completely exagerated and inaccurate and the colors are still not real, you never get colors like that with a picture of the milky way -- Giles Laurent (talk) 23:05, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

• Many thanks to Cmao20 and Giles for your evaluations. It is difficult to adjust saturation and level values based on guesswork when the original file is not available. But I didn't want to leave it untried. I created a second version in which I reduced the brightness, contrast and saturation values significantly: SwissTransfer link 2/2. There are still a few days left until the end of the nomination period and I'm still hoping that the author will respond with his personal feedback. Best regards, -- Radomianin (talk) 00:12, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

• The green and red colors in the sky still come out of nowhere and don't exist in reality. There's also many blue weird zones in the black zones that look like it was painted (I think they are remains of the painting brush used to darken the sky). The whites also seem a bit too illuminated. And also the black part of the sky is underexposed in my opinion (but underexposed because of the way it was edited by painting it darker and not by the way of taking the photo). I think the image has to be reworked from raw because the way it was edited to make everything else than the milky way much darker probably caused details to be lost there -- Giles Laurent (talk) 21:44, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

• Many thanks for your insightful remarks, Giles. You're right, without the raw file we can't make any progress here. It's a pity that the author/nominator hasn't responded yet. Best, -- Radomianin (talk) 09:09, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

• Yes, if improvements can be made in this case, I think working from the RAW file would be better. At least to see from where we start -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:01, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 05:34, 2 December 2024 (UTC)