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Submarine at Periscope Depth

USS Chicago (SSN 721) at periscope depth off Malaysia

We've probably got too many military images, but this submarine has a fresh angle. Its a US navy image recently uploaded by Pedant. - Solipsist 08:46, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Support - Solipsist 08:46, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support - nice and different [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 16:09, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Suppport. --Twinxor 17:24, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Denni☯ 21:02, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)
• Support. James F. (talk) 01:00, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. On reflection, I agree with Janderk. Support. Mark¹ 04:20, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. The thumbnail looks great, but compression/clarity/whatever on the full size is distractingly bad.
  • Above comment by User:Matthewcieplak, 02:55, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. ed g2s • talk 12:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. The setting is perfect, but the colors have been pumped up in photoshop too much, making the sea a strange kind of blue and the dark gray submarine look unnaturally green. Janderk 12:41, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Possibly, but its not unusual for a neutral object to take on a blue-green hue in water, see for example this white whale. There are also some odd striations in the water, so perhaps there is some sort of seaweed or algal bloom thing going on. The Sargasso Sea has a reputation for unusual colours due to seaweed, although the caption says this picture was taken somewhere near Malaysia. I couldn't find an easy way of reducing any colour shifts in photoshop without causing worse problems elsewhere in the image, on the other hand the RGB profile although fairly smooth has slight gaps in it, so I would guess some processing has been done, most likely a boost in saturation. -- Solipsist 06:41, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Oppose, artificial / retouched look. — David Remahl 15:36, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 03:06, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Support. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 05:24, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose, agree with David Remahl. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 08:17, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 00:18, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. Agree with Matthewcieplak and it is over retouched. --Fir0002 21:39, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Just because it looks retouched - doesn't mean that's necessarily the case... ed g2s • talk 02:23, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- Chris 73 Talk 04:17, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
• Support - I have to....I uploaded the same image a week before, it is the one on USS Chicago (SSN-721)..so I have to admire Pendant's taste! :)

• NOT Promoted, +10/-7. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 11:56, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)