Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kings Creek (Lassen Volcanic National Park)

Kings Creek in Lassen Volcanic National Park

A panoramic shot of Kings Creek which appears in the Lassen Volcanic National Park article. The park, home to Mt. Lassen, a volcano which last erupted about 90 years ago, is a lesser known park in northern California.

Edit 1. Brightend sky. Polorization that killed the original is much less here. sky doesn't loook as fake.

Edit 2. Superior noise reduction and sharper downsampling.

Reason: The only inside the park panoramic image which shows the landscape up close (I didn't insert it as a scrolling image though)
Articles this image appears in: Lassen Volcanic National Park
Creator: Dschwen

Support as nominator — Dschwen 16:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support -it is a nice shot, but the mountains are a bit fuzzy, and the road kind of ruins the photo -Nelro 18:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Which road?! There is no road on the picture. --Dschwen 18:21, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Maybe someone forgot to look at the full res version? Debivort 19:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - Sorry, the sand a gravel looks like a road when when you don't zoom in. -Nelro 10:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
support Debivort 19:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, it's obvious that the photo was digitally adjusted, but it still gets my positive vote.--Svetovid 22:00, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The unprocessed (stitched only) version is available here. --Dschwen 22:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
support edit 1 The sky looks like a volcano just exploded nearby in the first image. Otherwise, it's good.--Analogue Kid 04:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 01 - very nice, beautiful landscape. And FYI, a quick map check on the coordinates given shows that there is a road, and it's the Lassen Peak Highway/Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 08:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's just not visible ob the picture, it's out of frame and occluded by trees, unless you have some fancy CSI enhance techniques ;-) --Dschwen 10:11, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Well, from the map, the creek flows north west and the image is taken north of the road facing northwest. I don't think any of the road is in the image, occluded or not. Debivort 01:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The edit introduces a lot of compression artifacts. Could you upload a better version? P.S.: compare to this or that shot with an even darker sky. It was a bright day, and the air was extremely clear (high altitutde and fairly remote location) and had little atmospheric scattering. --Dschwen 10:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I always save for wiki at level twelve quality on photoshop. The compression artifacts are brobably a result of the saturation adjustments. and were present in the original but were unnoticable. Later today I'll try a anti noise median in a isolated blue channel with sky selected and see hoe it turns out. -Fcb981 15:10, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The noise is present on the original, it is not JPEG compression artifacts, I used a noise reduction plugin before downsizing Bleh999 19:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose original zoom in on the sky, there is a lot of noise, also present in the original which hasn't been downsized Bleh999 13:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC) support edit 2 less noisy, better levels, and sharper.Bleh999 13:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Wonderful image. ^(H) 15:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Edit 1 (my own) I dont see any real gains on three and there looks to be more polorization of the sky there but its subtle. -Fcb981 04:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I liked your curves adjustment, but there is too much noise, using the sky and treetops as a reference point Bleh999 08:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Fair enough, however no curves adjustment was used. I Originaly considered using the blue channel level adjustment but that would have caused color cast on the entire image. Instead I used Hue/Saturation under the blue mode. Selected about 5 points in the sky and upped the brightness and saturation. I suspect the more pronounced noise came from saturation adjustments. -Fcb981 15:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support Edit 2 – Cleanest of the three photos. I would have liked the sky to be a continuous band across the top of the picture. Centy – reply• contribs – 20:02, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted The Sunshine Man 16:42, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]