Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater

Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 Jan 2014 at 11:38:08 (UTC)

Original – Audience hall of Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater

Edit - Exposure lowered

Reason: Great EV, spectacular photo, high quality
Articles in which this image appears: Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
Creator: Alex Levitsky & Dmitry Shamatazhi

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 11:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Just beautiful! Sepguilherme (talk) 12:21, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Insufficient dynamic range -- too much clipped out-of-range at bottom and top end. -- Colin°^Talk 12:38, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I believe there is sufficient dynamic range in this image. In terms of actual highlight and shadow clipping, the only highlight clipping is in the lights themselves (which is entirely expected) and shadow clipping is limited to the prompter's box on the stage. Perhaps the photo seems a bit overexposed. I have offered an edit with mild curves adjustments should it allay some concerns, but I prefer the original. Tokugawapants (talk) 12:00, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can't fix exposure problems on a JPG. What's clipped is clipped. I doubt even the raw file has the dynamic range needed. This really needs HDR techniques. If it were one or two light clipped then I'd let it pass, but the lighting is a feature and there is no detail in the lamps. -- Colin°^Talk 18:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:09, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]