Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Aurora Borealis over Bear Lake

Aurora Borealis over Bear Lake

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Original – Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska — The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake.

Reason: Quite striking, beautiful picture of the Aurora Borealis. First Place Picture of the Year 2006.
Articles in which this image appears: Bear Lake (Alaska), Image segmentation, List of natural phenomena, Planet Earth (TV series), Sky, Wonders of the World
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Atmospheric optics
Creator: United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang

Support as nominator – — Cirt (talk) 02:32, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Question: Are the colours that intense or is it a little overprocessed? --Tremonist (talk) 13:57, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Tremonist:Per the discussion that promoted the image to Featured Picture on Commons, the street-lights were spoiling the image, and they were removed. — Cirt (talk) 18:32, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Advisory – Have you all seen this recent video? Or this one? Sca (talk) 14:48, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 21:57, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – great image, but if you zoom in (at 200%), you see lots of bright dots on the land and tree area, especially on left side, identical dots to the ones in the sky. Therefore many of the dots in the sky are not real ! Misleading image. But otherwise a great shot. Bammesk (talk) 03:55, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Could it be some expected noise? (or related to the 25 second exposure?) --Godot13 (talk) 04:46, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - May be. But it is too noisy. The sky looks like it is filled with tiny stars, in reality it is filled with noise. Bammesk (talk) 05:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Likely over-processed - see https://luminous-landscape.com/auroras-lies-and-camera-sensors Samsara 06:07, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 11:43, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too processed, unnatural looking (even for a photo), therefore EV suffers. --Janke | Talk 15:32, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]