Wikipedia:Picture peer review/HanaumaBay

Hanauma Bay, O'ahu[edit]

While I'm submitting photos for peer review, I thought I'd also see what people thought of this one. Its a six-photo stitch of Hanauma Bay in Hawai'i done in Hugin, and cleaned up in Windows Live Photo Gallery. In particular, I think the coral and water came out spectacularly.

Nominated by: Tigerhawkvok (talk) 08:12, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

It certainly has some nice elements, but even just looking at the thumbnail, it's got a nasty tilt to it - look at the horizon. This could be an artefact of the stitching, because the actual beach area looks OK, but I'd suggest fixing the tilt up if possible before trying to take this any further. --jjron (talk) 08:16, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Jjron's got it right, but if you clean that up, you'll be in the clear. The only thing that worries me are the tiny people on the beach, which just bother me a little; don't know why though. Everything else is very good-looking. Elephantissimo (talk) 19:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just rotated the source file, and made sure the ocean horizon was lined up to a test horizontal line -- but now I'm not sure if I'm bothered by the branches in the upper-left, and I'm generally pretty lousy at airbrushing those things out. Is it OK with that, or does anyone want to take a crack at removing the branches? Tigerhawkvok (talk) 20:24, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I also added a second crop with a slightly different color balance, downsized, and slightly sharpened. Tigerhawkvok (talk) 21:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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