Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Coastline of the Big Island of Hawaii

Coastline of the Big Island of Hawaii[edit]

The dramatic scenery, which shows a violent meeting of lava and the ocean. IMO the image is a very educational and has high encyclopedic value. The image has also a good quality and a great caption.

Nominated by: Mbz1 (talk) 15:39, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I haven't really had time to look at this closely, but I rather liked it with my brief look. In the thumb it is heavily dark for 2/3 of the picture and doesn't look so impressive, but it looks far better at image page size. One issue is that it is clearly significantly tilted - it looks to have been either taken with coastline horizontal, or straightened for that, but look at the horizon in the background. I'd think that would want to be straightened up if you are considering putting it up at FPC. The other thing is that I seem to remember you getting a similar picture featured last year - it was something to do with lava in Hawaii, I'm not sure how similar it was to this, and I don't have time to search it out, so perhaps you could remind us of the details on that one? --jjron (talk) 10:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Jiron, thank you for taking your time to write the comment at the image! The last year image was very different . It was taken from a helicopter and did not show lava entering the ocean with all its plume and steam. You are right it is tilted. I used flex tripod hanging out on a shaky rope to take the image. The thing is it was quite a walk over lava flow to get to the place and it was hard to carry my normal tripod (I know it cannot be an excuse). I would like to put it to FPC, but I am afraid. It is easier for me to cross an active lava flow, to go in the cage with great white sharks, to land at an iceberg in a helicopter than to nominate my images at FPC. :-) Thank you for being so kind with me.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:42, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe, I understand your FPC tension. The straightness looks good now. I wonder if you edited from the original here or went back to your fullsize original though? The only reason I ask is that the bits of red lava look brighter (and more dynamic) in the first one. The other unfortunate consequence is that the big dramatic smoke plume at the right has now been cutoff at the top. Would you mind if I had a try at straightening from the original over the next day or two, just to see what I can do? Oh, and re the other FP, so I wasn't mistaken but you are right they are really quite different images. Can't see any issue there. FWIW I like this one better. --jjron (talk) 08:06, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to ask you myself to do it for me. It is very nice of you to offer your help.Please do.--Mbz1 (talk) 11:57, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, have had a go. Straightened, and I also brought up the dark regions a bit and did some noise reduction. I've managed to keep in the top of that biggest plume. You may think it looks better in the original lighting, and if so I have another version with no alteration to the lighting which I could do a noise reduction on and upload instead. Re FPC I'm not sure how this would fare as there's a lot of pointless posturing going on there ATM over image sizes, pixel picking, etc. I also think it would be good if you could get it into an article to do with volcanoes rather than just Hawaii based articles (not that EV is of any real concern to the poseurs). Personally I like it, but am feeling less and less that I can speak for 'FPC' opinion. --jjron (talk) 08:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

jjron's edit is by far my favorite -- a very dramatic photo! Good luck with it. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 07:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC), volcano fan.[reply]

Thank you very much, Pete.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seconder

~~I withdraw my nomination~~~~. Thanks.~~--14:07, 29 April 2008 (UTC)