Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Itsukushima torii

Itsukushima torii

The torii at Itsukushima Shrine appears to float in the water.

auto-colored, auto-contrasted

Self-nom; a vibrantly-colored illustration for Itsukushima Shrine and Three Views of Japan. — Dan | Talk 13:04, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Neutral. Good composition, but the image looks a bit pink to me. Is it possible to adjust the white balance a bit? This may change my vote to pro. -- Chris 73 Talk 14:03, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • I applied Auto Color and Auto Contrast in photoshop to depink. -- BRIAN0918  15:47, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • The auto-color made it seem a bit too green to me, so I tweaked the colors manually (with the "color balance" tool) and uploaded it over the original: compare my original version, Brian9018's tweaked version, and my tweaked version. — Dan | Talk 17:25, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      • Now Support 2nd or third version. Thanks -- Chris 73 Talk 22:58, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Support 2nd version or Rdsmith4's modified version. -- BRIAN0918  15:47, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose Image requires a couple of degrees of clockwise rotation. Support Denni☯ 00:33, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
  • To Denni and jk, I have rotated it as Photoshop suggested to make the horizon perfectly horizontal. As for the color, I lowered the saturation very slightly; I tried going further, but the colors went quite dull. I can hardly see the difference on my LCD screen, but you might if you have a better monitor. Hope this addresses your concerns. — Dan | Talk 01:11, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

File:800px-Itsukushima torii 3.jpg

desat. clouds, rotated 1.25 degrees CW

• Support Nice photo: very illustrative. jk 19:07, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• I like it. It's pretty! Support. --Sonjaaa 23:28, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Oversaturated colour. Mark¹ 03:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

File:800px-Itsukushima torii 4.jpg

bold crop

Bold crop with higher resolution and lower saturation

• • The saturation has not changed from the original image, which is quite well within bounds for color saturation. The most notable change to my (IMHBEO) opinion is to the color balance, which has eliminated the unnatural green cast. I might suggest a bold crop to help feature the shrine, though. Denni☯ 23:55, 2005 Mar 10 (UTC)
    • The red and green on the torii still look weird to me. There's also some kind of purple, hazy border around the hills and the torii. Mark¹ 01:57, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Nice setting. Support. (but if it got better i wouldn't object either) -- Dbroadwell 21:46, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Original photo looks a little drab and all the adjusted versions look too saturated, I also don't like the canoe being in the photo. Doesn't suit the atmosphere --Fir0002 04:13, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Totally disagree about canoe - provides scale and puts it in context as a tourist destination, not a temple. jk
• A tough call. Support any of the rotated versions (all but Image:Itsukushima torii distance 2.jpg at the moment). Lower saturation in the sky is a plus for the latter two images; lower resolution is a minus. I'm also undecided whether I like it better cropped or not. —Korath (Talk) 19:54, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Support boldly cropped version (EDIT: with larger resolution), Oppose all others. The composition of the last one really adds something the others lack. Junes 14:22, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• I don't know if I'm allowed to vote since I took the picture, but I oppose the bottom two because of the lower resolution. — Dan | Talk
  • I recropped the image, preserving its full width, so I support Image:Itsukushima torii cropped.jpg or the original. — Dan | Talk 16:38, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • I like the larger resolution, but perhaps the boat on the right-hand side should be cropped away? Junes 09:13, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose. Not particularly striking and actually rather cluttered. - Seth Ilys 20:55, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose - Bevo 22:04, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support any, killkillkill --SPUI (talk) 08:41, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Not promoted. +8/-5. ed g2s • talk 13:59, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)