Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Arizona in New York

Arizona meets New York

The image is of high EV and is visually stunning. Between Cenpacrr and myself I feel that it has been well restored.

Articles this image appears in: USS Arizona (BB-39)

Creator: Original picture: US Navy. Restoration: Centpacrr and Crisco 1492

Suggested by: Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:24, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I really like this one. Possible issues - a bit soft at full-res, but having said which, there's plenty of resolution to spare. The buildings in the background have a definite clockwise tilt, but it doesn't seem consistent (seems to get worse working from left to right), so it could be partly an element of lens distortion; this could be improved a bit pretty easily. An unfortunate overlap of those masty things on the top of the ship (whatever they are, I know bugger-all about ships) with relatively similar background items; nothing you can do about it, and it's not so bad when viewed full-res, but even at image-page size it's a bit off-putting. Just for the record, was the restoration strictly a dust and scratches thing? I'd say give it a try at FPC. --jjron (talk) 11:01, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, there's a few aspects I'm a bit hazy about on further thought. I'm thinking it seems to be a pincushion distortion causing that tilt on the buildings, but as I said it's quite noticeable on the right, almost non-existent on the left; I'm wondering if this image has undergone a significant crop at some point for composition reasons, taking off the left-hand side? I'm also trying to work out why that little boat furthest left is so blurry; DOF shouldn't be an issue, I guess it could be a motion blur, but it would have had to been fairly hiking along. BTW, could I suggest you give it another quick once-over for scratches. --jjron (talk) 11:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How would one correct the "pincushion distortion"? The image was cropped and tilt corrected from its original TIFF. I could try and give it another look for scratches later today. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Original file on-Wiki here.

I've updated it; Now with fewer scratches! Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:47, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, that distortion is a funny one, you could try a bit more rotation, but not sure that would help overall. Other than that you could do some distortion transforming, or even try a lens correction tool in Photoshop. I'm not sure how important it is. I'd have a play with it, but unfortunately my main computer has ceased to be, and I'm restricted to pretty limited equipment atm till I get the chance to buy a new machine. Just noticed there looks to be something seriously strange going on with the water between that front and centre boat and the main ship; not sure if that was introduced with the latest edit, but I didn't notice it before. --jjron (talk) 14:34, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are right about that; it may have been introduced through compression or something... odd. I will have another go tomorrow; already late here. Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:17, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've uploaded two different versions over each other, here, I tried to fix the distortion, please check both of them and let me know how are they. ■ MMXX ^talk 00:58, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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