Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cirrus Field

Cirrus Field

Edited version - bit more cloud detail

Cirrus Field Color

This image appears in the article Cirrus cloud. Obviously, it is very representative of what Cirrus clouds look like. I also believe that it perfectly captures the "feel" of a sky full of cirrus clouds, the whispy streams suspended in time forever. I believe it is striking in an Ansel Adams-esque sort of way. Although it looks like it, the image was not heavily edited. Basically all I did was desaturate it and use an 81 warming filter. I have the original full color version, should you wish to see it.

Nominate and support. - PiccoloNamek 05:34, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Please share the color image. What color a cloud has seems to be crucial information to describe a cloud to me. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:45, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Well, they're all, uh, white, if you couldn't tell. ;) Anyway, here's a color version.PiccoloNamek 10:41, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I like both. The black and white version is quite dramatic, but the colour version probably better illustrates the clouds. Raven4x4x 11:38, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I dislike the black and white version, not as a picture but as an encyclopedia illustration.The colour of the clouds and the colour of the background are important to understanding what it shows. I will support the colour one - Adrian Pingstone 15:53, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I don't know, but something in the bottom portion seems distracting. Maybe the dip in the forest in the left-hand side? Flcelloguy ( A note? ) 00:40, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
As soon as I can I will support the color image. The black and white one makes it appear like a thunder cloud. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- As promised support color image. - Mgm|^(talk) 16:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support colour image, and I would also suggest that you nominate the black and white image as an FPC on commons. Raven4x4x 04:53, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment:I don't know man, I get the feeling they don't like edited photographs there. Somebody nominated my sakura picture there and it only got one support vote and a whole bunch of opposes. Over there, they seem to have very different standards. Even my Energy Arc, which was unanimously supported here with something like 18 votes, got 2 or 3 opposes!PiccoloNamek 06:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Added an edited version with a bit of extra detail in clouds. --Fir0002 10:17, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Reply - No offense, (really) but I don't like that at all. :)PiccoloNamek 00:15, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
( + ) Support. Black and white is more artistic, but color is more useful. Either way, I support all versions. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 05:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose b&w versions, support colour version. I quite like the original b&w one (Fir0002's edit is ok, but looks a little too messy with the extra contrast), but doesn't quite fit my idea of an encyclopedic image; the colour one is attractive and potentially more useful. Enochlau 07:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
( + ) Support The color version is sharp and almost perfect for this kind of illustration. — Sverdrup 14:02, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose B&W, Support color The color version has a greater allure to it - I think the color contrast between the blue and green is better than the contrast in the B&W. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vaeiou (talk • contribs) 13:14, 17 November 2005
~~Oppose~~- very poor placement in the article (it isn't even the primary picture on the page). It's just stuck into the article in a large gallery section with the somewhat cryptic caption, "Cirrus Clouds, mixed sky". How is this picture adding somthing that the others (all 5 of them) are not? Try Commons or try giving it a better caption and improving its positioning. Broken S. I'm Neutral about it now after the new placement and caption. Broken S 20:39, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - How about now? I changed the article's pictur to the color version too.PiccoloNamek 05:31, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Considering that you also took the pic that was on top of the article before your last edit I think I can safely say that I liked that one much better. Artistically the new one is better. But the old one conveys the concept of cirrus clouds better as an encyclopaedic image. Hence Oppose to all versions of this image. --Dschwen 09:04, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:CirrusField-color.jpg Raven4x4x 05:23, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]