Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kings Creek (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

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 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. Centyreplycontribs20:02, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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