Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Image:Olympic Stadium Sydney

Sydney Olympic Park with stadium and forest poles

Just need a few opinions and maybe some advice on what settings to use on my Fuji Fine Pix...

Sydney Olympic Park with stadium and forest poles

Just need a few opinions and maybe some advice on what settings to use on my Fuji Fine Pix...

This version is better for a whole raft of reasons. Your first version was basically over-exposed. Darker rendering helps reduce noise in the sky and brings back some colour saturation in the foreground. This version is also a much better crop, bringing back the missing RHS and allowing more headroom for the main subject. It's also nearer a correct orientation, referring to the severe tilt on the original version. It's a nice image, great for the encyclopedia, and it's certainly worth considering some finishing touches – I'd look at less sharpening, another slight rotation to bring the verticals at the centre of the image upright, maybe with a little perspective correction, noise reduction for the sky, etc – but to be frank, for FPC it would be better to reshoot it just before dark, rather than at night. Apart from making for a much better-looking sky, it should help reduce the heavy, distracting contrast between the darkest and brightest areas of the image. These are fairly major FPC-failing issues which you really can't do much about here. Camera-wise, a smaller aperture would be the biggest single improvement you could make. --mikaul^talk 13:07, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Meant to add: you do realise the edge of the frame is showing at the top, don't you? Clone it out, rather than crop it. --mikaul^talk 13:09, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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