Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lightning over Oradea Romania 2.jpg
In today's world, Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lightning over Oradea Romania 2.jpg has become increasingly relevant in different areas of society. From its impact on the economy to its influence on everyday life, Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lightning over Oradea Romania 2.jpg has become a topic of constant interest and debate. Its importance lies in its ability to impact the way people, companies and institutions address different challenges and opportunities. In this article we will explore the various aspects related to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lightning over Oradea Romania 2.jpg, from its origin and evolution to its potential consequences and benefits. Through detailed analysis, we will try to understand how Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lightning over Oradea Romania 2.jpg is shaping the world today and how it can influence the future.
Well, I took this picture a few nights ago outside my building and everybody who saw it loved it. On Wiki I found that it illustrates perfectly the Cloud-to-ground lightning wheather phenomenon. If you watch at 100% zoom you can actually see where the lightning strikes the earth.
Conditional Support-- Its an awesome shot alright, but the picture ought to be rotated a little to make the ground seem flat instead of tilted to the left. TomStar8101:51, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
If tilted back to square, then the picture would either lose some critical detail near the edges, or end up very tightly cropped. Was the original larger? --Surgeonsmate02:32, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Yes, of course I noticed it's tilted, the wind must have moved the rig, but then again, I feel it adds to the authenticity of the picture. It was 3 a.m. and I was on top of the building. If most people think it should be straightened out, I'll have a corrected version. No, it is not cropped, it's straight off the CF card.Nelumadau
I might well support a rotated (or as I think of it, derotated) version. Adroit Photoshopping might maintain a reasonable aspect ratio. I'm quite good at that sort of thing; if you need help, ask. — Xiong熊talk* 07:34, 2005 August 18 (UTC)
I'm thinking more like a skew/free transform in PS, where the lower right corner would go lower and the oposite corner would go higher, so as to level out the horizon without losing detail in he middle as you would by a simple rotate/crop. --Nelumadau15:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)Nelumadau
OK, the more I looked at it, the more I feel it needs to be corrected. So I did, but for the love of all things dear, I can't figure out how to change the old with the new. I uploaded the new at http://madau.net/photo/lightning_over_Oradea_Romania_2.jpg and I'd be grateful if someone of the more experienced users here were to add it to this page. I promise I'll take the time to read the Wiki tutorial one of these days:). Nelumadau21:02, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Comment. I'll take a look at it again when it's rotated. You might also want to crop off the black mark on the top left corner, whatever it might be. Enochlau06:12, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Support. Great picture, definitely illustrates its subject well.
Nelumadau, I've uploaded the rotated image to Wikipedia and added it here. I've put the appropriate tags on the image (hope that's OK for me to do that), but as you're the author you are probably the one who should give it any more info it needs. This rotated version is one of my favourite ever lightning pictures, and I've looked at a lot. I definately Support the rotated version.Raven4x4x 07:18, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
