Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Cesarian

Cesarian the moment of birth

I think this is an incredible pic for a few reasons. First, its the first moment of life, how cool is that? Second, I like how the lighting is just on the baby, really gives a focal point to the picture. I think there is room for some contrast edit work to it though, before it receives nomination.

Nominated by: smooth0⁷0₇ (talk) 17:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

The picture is very good in respects to composition with the baby clearly being the subject of the picture. I tried cleaning the noise on the image but a few layers of noise reduction have to be applied. I created an edit that is downsized if you would like to take a look at it. The largest problem with this picture is that during the exposure there was some camera shake which is impossible for me to correct. Sorry to say but this would be very hard to get through FPC. --victorrocha (talk) 3:07, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you post the edit? I'd def like to see what improvement(s) you made. smooth0⁷0₇ (talk) 17:03, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

With the edit I did a few layers of noise reduction to take care of the noise resulting from the ISO at 500. I downsized it to get the picture sharp. I tried changing the white balance of the picture but I decided to keep that at the original level. Lastly I would like to say that I was playing around with the brightness of the picture but that would be up to you to do (I did not see a huge difference in the composition of the picture changing brightness, but there was some). --victorrocha (talk) 20:48, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seconder

Support Victorroacha's edit. With the noise reduction it has lost some sharpness, most notable when viewed at full resolution. But still, to my mind the Wow-factor of this image compensates for the imperfect image quality. The FP as I'm writing this is just a boring picture of an anorexic supermodel on a catwalk. M'eh. This pic is far more beautiful and inspiring, and not nearly so easy to replicate. ("Um, excuse me, doctor? Could you put her back in the womb for just a moment? I need to lower my ISO.") Fletcher (talk) 22:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Haha to your ISO comment. I guess thats the nature of photography however. I like the edit as well. I was experimenting with the various levels of brightness, but I was never satisfied with any of the changes. I will nominate victorrocha's edit. smooth0⁷0₇ (talk) 15:31, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]