Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:MJK 54041 Barockträdgården (Drottningholm).jpg

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Baroque garden, Drottningholm
  • I can't be 100% sure, but to me it looks like this window has a layer of UV and light protecting film installed. It is very common here since the sun is so low most of the year, that the direct sunlight straight in from the windows will damage (bleach) the old wallpapers and art in the rooms. Naturally the film can't be cut to exactly match very old window frames so there will be some part of the window without coating and it will look like whiter borders. If you Google "solskyddsfilm", the Swedish word for it, you will get hundreds of companies offering to install it. Regarding the shadows, I don't think you are allowed to bring a tripod into the castle and doing an HDR with just handheld is a bit tricky, so the shadows are probably what you can get with a single shot if you want the view to look ok. Photographing within an UNESCO World Heritage building is a bit different than shooting something from your kitchen window. The shot is made from the central window, second floor, between the two statues in this photo. --Cart (talk) 16:48, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think you are right about the UV protecting film. In Drottningholm (like in many historic buildings in Sweden) a lot of what looks like marble isn't marble but paint on a wood or plaster. // Martin K. (talk) 17:33, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • @KennyOMG: I just reworked the edges. The turquoise bars where a strang side effect of the combination of CA-removal, brightening the shadows and darkening the sky in Lightroom, that went by unnoticed while uploading a couple of images on the last day of WLM.
    Anyway: This photo is a single shot, no HDR, no retusches, no cut and paste. // Martin K. (talk) 17:33, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • KennyOMG I think making an accusation of sky-swapping without informing the photographer (who is a long term and much respected photographer on Commons) is rather rude. And the "really noisy" shadows just tells me you are pixel peeping a 25MP image and possibly have your monitor set too bright. I don't see anything unnatural about the sky or any evidence of "overprocessing". Frankly this makes me wonder if you need to buy a better monitor, preferably a 4K one where you can't see the pixels without a magnifying glass. -- Colin (talk) 18:41, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 28 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 16:25, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Other#Sweden
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