User talk:Iifar/archive 2013-2021

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Nice

Many of the images you have uploaded are very good. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:17, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments!

	WLM super uploader
	Thanks for uploading already more than 100 photos to Wiki Loves Monuments! Keep going, like this mill at Kinderdijk :) -- Effeietsanders (talk) 08:46, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

thanks! Regards, --ArildV (talk) 21:07, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 has finished

Dear Iifar, Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments and sharing your pictures with the whole world. You are very welcome to keep uploading images, even though you can't win prizes any longer. To get started on editing relevant Wikipedia articles, click here for more information and help. You can find all uploaded pictures in our central media collection Wikimedia Commons. Many photos are already used in Wikipedia. The contest was very successful with more than 165,000 images submitted throughout Europe. To make future contests even more successful, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in this survey. Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team

Message delivered by Lucia Bot in 22:17, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi Iifar, thanks a lot for your comment on File:Sonoma Coast, near Gleason Beach.jpg (quality image candidates). I actually didn't notice that the horizon was tilted that much. It's one of my favorite places along the Sonoma coast and I really enjoyed taking that picture. So, thank you so much again, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 16:27, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

for fixing the dust spots in File:Wackershofen Freilandmuseum Dorfkapelle Stoecken 20070716 2.jpg. I dont't think I would have found the time and patience to do that anytime soon. Regards --Rosenzweig τ 21:59, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Autopatrolled flag

Hi Iifar, I have given you the autopatrol flag (i.e. your contribution won't have any red mark ! and will be automatically marked as patrolled), I think you are a user that can be trusted and that you know the basics of our licensing policies (basically you use the good license tag or pd tag when needed). Best regards, --PierreSelim (talk) 15:01, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

File:Rochers Sierra Nevada.jpg

Hello Iifar,

I thank you very much for your numerous and lenient reviews of my pictures.

You made a very interesting comment on this one, and you were right.

Would you please be kind enough to have another look ? I've reworked it, and I hope you will find it fine now (I'm trying Lightroom4 as postprocessing software, very interesting but a bit difficult at beginning !)

If it does not work for you, no problem for me, feel free to decline, of course.

BtW, congratulations for your own pictures in general, they make your country very interesting to me, but... they are already promoted when I review !!

Regards from Paris, --Jebulon (talk) 22:09, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions

Thanks for your two suggestions about my two pictures... and for your votes. I really appreciate this kind of help. -- Thanks too, for the quality of your pictures on Wikipedia. (Sorry for my English.)-- Best regards. JLPC (talk) 20:47, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

QI promotor :)

	Yeah
	You are really promotor of QI idea for all these people play WLM this year ;) Przykuta → [edit] 17:30, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

I just wanted to thank you for your reviews, however, I'm pretty much of a commons newbie and I simply can't fix some stuff, so I just withdrew one more nomination. Anyway, every review helps me in general. Thanks a lot! -Barras (talk) 14:33, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

I'm sorry for going contrary to the policy of featured photos nominations. I'll reduce the number i've submitted to 2. In fact, I don't know of that though. But i think ignorance isn't an excuse.

Thanks

--Nkansahrexford (talk) 18:23, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

File:El Escorial facade Espagne edit.jpg in QIC

Hello my dear (and watchful) friend from Estonia !

Don't you like the spanish sun ? :)

By magnifying at 400%, I've understood where you saw color banding.

I've tried to reduce this by less contrast in the sky, it is not perfect.

I've made some corrections around the vane in foreground, but I don't see what I could do for the vane in background, I've corrected a bit all around the roof.

I hope it is better but now, there is nothing more I could do in order to improve again this picture, I'm sorry. So it will stay as it is.

Anyway, I thank you very much for your useful reviews, even if it made me work very hard !!

Kind regards from Paris, friendly, --Jebulon (talk) 23:44, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! Dear Iifar, Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 350,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from 36 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2012. Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team

Message delivered by the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 notification system on 08:36, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Just a word ....

Hello Ivar,

I just wanted to thank you for your great contributions to wiki. It is always a pleasure to view your images. And - the obviously windy - Estonia seems to be a beautiful place, thank you for showing us. Kind regards from Lake Constance --Dietrich Krieger (talk) 22:54, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

WLM

What is that?! I see, that you've contributed five of nine WLM finalists from Estonia! That's a really great result, congrats to you, many thanks for your excellent work on Commons, and of course good luck for the international contest. - A.Savin 17:13, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thanks for cleaning up all my "weak oppose" and "weak support" templates at the Featured Picture Candidates page. I was going to fix everything after you let me know about it on my talk page, but you beat me to it! Thanks a lot! Michael Barera (talk) 20:26, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Maspalomas lighthouse

Hello Ivar,

Many thanks for denoising the sky in my photograph of Maspalomas lighthouse. Which program did you use for it? The result is excellent. By he way: I'd like to congratulate you with your beautiful images on Commons! Kind regards -- Marc Ryckaert (MJJR (talk) 10:45, 24 November 2012 (UTC)).

Airplane description

Thank lifar for help me to Airplane identification. ;), very useful --The Photographer (talk) 13:44, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Quality image

Thank you for the correction of CA on File:Geneva MotorShow 2013 - Peugeot Onyx bike detail.jpg. Could you tell me what you have done on the file to correct the CA ?

Pleclown (talk) 11:48, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Tänud!

Sa lihtsalt teed nõndavõrd häid pilte, et on mida FP kandidaatideks esitada. Kruusamägi (talk) 10:55, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

I just wanted to say I like your macro pics very much. They're beautiful and they hold a high encyclopaedic value. Go on with the good job!

On a different matter, if you live anywhere near Tallinn and are not adverse to sports photography, there's a famous fencing event taking place in the city, the Glaive de Tallinn. All top-ranking epee fencers attend the event, including of course Estonian fencers who as you may know rank amongst the best in the world. The 2013 event is over now, but please consider covering it in 2014!

Jastrow (Λέγετε) 15:48, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

BRRR

Iifar DON'T WRITE IN MY WORDS. A COMMENT IT'S A COMMENT. ONLY I CAN VOTE IF I VOTE: YOU MUST BE BLOCKED: --Lmbuga 23:14, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Español: Si usted no se disculpa, pensaré en solicitar el bloqueo, en abandonar el proyecto o en solicitarle que no se vuelva a cruzar conmigo en ningún lugar--Miguel Bugallo (Lmbuga) 23:24, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for participating in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013! Please help with this survey. Dear Iifar, Thank you for contributing to Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, and for sharing your pictures with the whole world! We would like to ask again a few minutes of your time. Thanks to the participation of people like you, the contest gathered more than 365,000 pictures of cultural heritage objects from more than 50 countries around the world, becoming the largest photography competition to have ever taken place. You can find all your pictures in your upload log, and are of course very welcome to keep uploading images and help develop Wikimedia Commons, even though you will not be able to win more prizes (just yet). If you'd like to start editing relevant Wikipedia articles and share your knowledge with other people, please go to the Wikipedia Welcome page for more information, guidance, and help. To make future contests even more successful than this year, we would like to invite you to share your experiences with us in a short survey. Please fill in this short survey in your own language, and help us learn what you liked and didn't like about Wiki Loves Monuments 2013. Kind regards, the Wiki Loves Monuments team

Thank you

Hi. I wanted to thank you for your help in adjusting photos and nomination for FP. It will be interesting to know the opinion of other members of commons. --Max_Ryazanov (talk) 07:47, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Mõned küsimused spetsialistile

• Millistel teadusfoto võistlusele laekunud piltidel võiks olla potentsiaali saada eeskujuliku pildi märge?
• Kas sealse Pavese seeria müürlooga trihhoomidest võiks esitada seeriana FP kandidaatideks? Kas neid pilte saab käsitleda kui "Featured pictures of Estonia"?
• Millised HELP4 pildikogumisele laekunud fotod on sinu hinnangul parimad? St millised oleksid võimalikud eeskujulikud pildid?
• Mul oleks tarvilik valida 3 parimat HELP4 pildilisajat. Kes tegid sinu hinnangul parimat tööd?

Ehk leiad mahti mõnele vastata :) Kruusamägi (talk) 23:47, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Autignac, Hérault 01.jpg

Hello Ivar, as you can see it I was able to take advantage a few of colors of the autumn. I shall like that you give me your opinion onto the edition of this photo, I downloaded two versions, is the last the better? Christian Ferrer (talk) 10:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC

Basílica Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá (Exterior 1).jpg

Thank you very much for the noise reduction and sharpening :D Béria Lima ^msg 16:03, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Eeskujulikest piltidest

Küsiksin sinult kui asjatundjalt, et kas ja kui siis millised fotod siit kategooriast võiksid pretendeerida eeskujuliku pildi tiitlile? Kruusamägi (talk) 21:04, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Küsin veel nõu ja värske pilgu järele. Sa selles osavam. Kas siit võiks miskit eeskujulikku leida? Kruusamägi (talk) 22:05, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

@Kruusamägi: Mulle meeldib ja , aga nad on kvaliteedilt pehmevõitu (teravust võiks rohkem olla). Siin kehtib rusikareegel, mida kallim Nikkori obje, seda parem pilt. --Ivar (talk) 08:45, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Mulle ka iseäranis see viimane meeldib. Proovisin isegi sellega, aga ei läinud läbi. Nii ei osanud enam teiste kohta seisukohta võtta. Eks ma katsetan siis selle teisega ka.

Standardkit objektiiviga pole väga paremini õnnestunud. Sellega võrreldes on sinu fotod ikka uskumatult teravad ja ega ma täpselt mõistagi, et kuidas sa seda suudad. :P Kruusamägi (talk) 10:47, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Küsiks jälle sinu ekspertarvamuse kohta. Milliseid pilte siit ja siit oleks mõtet esitada FP ja QI kandidaatideks? Kruusamägi (talk) 21:01, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

@Kruusamägi: Võimalikud kandidaadid: , , , . Paljud pildid on väga hea kompositsioniga, aga tehniline kvaliteet jätab soovida. --Ivar (talk) 07:08, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural/Estonia

Hello Ivar, ping @Kruusamägi: too, there is a lot of images in Natural, and for easy navigation and understanding I am creating galleries for countries which have several dozens of images. I wanted, and started, to sort images by counties for the Estonian gallery, but it's hard for me to understand the langage and very hard to find the counties for each image. I wanted to ask on Estonian langage village pump but I was not able to find it, is there a village pump in Estonian on Commons? Regards, Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 15:41, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Well, there are not that many Estonians around here. Besides me and Iifar the more active ones should be Taivo, WikedKentaur, Quibik and Flying Saucer.

I can set some of them into appropriate categories and I'd assume other can easily help here. Kruusamägi (talk) 16:16, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Great! thank you! Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 16:24, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Generosity Crowdfunding Campaign for User:The Photographer

Please excuse me spamming you. As a regular on Feature Picture Candidatess you will recognise User:The Photographer, who has 86 Featured Pictures. His contributions cover the architecture and culture of Brazil and Venezuela. He has basic photographic equipment: an old D300 camera and 35mm lens, and lives in a poor country where photographic equipment is expensive. The Photographer has recently taken several images using the technique where multiple frames are stitched together to create a high-resolution panorama. However, many times frustrated with the stitching errors that result from trying to take such photos without a proper panoramic head for his tripod. This special equipment permits the camera to be rotated around the entrance pupil of the lens, and eliminates such errors. Having a panoramic head would greatly increase the potential for The Photographer to create sharp high-resolution images for Commons. In addition, the purchase of a fisheye lens would enable 180 × 360° panoramas to be taken, which are a great way to explore a scene as though one is really there.

Please see the discussion about the Crowd-funding campaign on User talk:The Photographer#Generosity Crowdfunding Campaign and visit the Generosity Crowd-funding Campaign page to consider donating. Even a modest donation will make a difference if many people contribute. Thanks. -- Colin (talk) 13:25, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Lamium purpureum

Hi, is it possible that this Image File:Lamium purpureum - verev iminõges Keilas.jpg shows Lamium amplexicaule or Lamium confertum? The corolla tube looks suspiuciously long. Nice images btw. Regards --Aiwok (talk) 19:23, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

@Aiwok: Servus! Very interesting question, I had to do some research to answer it. First, we can rule out Lamium confertum, because it doesn't grow in Estonia. Now we have to find main difference between similar species of L. amplexicaule and L. purpureum. This wasn't too hard to find. L. purpureum has stalked leaves, while L. amplexicaule has unstalked leaves. Specimen on my photo has definitely stalked leaves, so it must be Lamium purpureum. Best regards! --Ivar (talk) 19:54, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Tere, thanks for searching. The leaf stalks of L. amplexicaule look different indeed. Apparently this specimen is just somehow more slenderly build than those red deadnettles I've seen before. Regards--Aiwok (talk) 23:05, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

background on current FPC of thistles

Hi there. I know it is always tricky asking questions about photographic technique and subsequent procesing but as a fellow photographer I am curious as to how you find your yellow/orange backgrounds in nature. We all do significant post-prosessing (and leave the evidence!), but I wonder how you do it? I know somew photographers here in the UK who use a painted backboard to produce a neutral background, but I've never tried that technique. Best wishes. Charles (talk) 09:34, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

@Charlesjsharp: short answer is: yellowish background plants at "golden hour" are the best conditions for this kind of shooting. Good luck! --Ivar (talk) 11:10, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. But you'll need to alter the time clock on your camera. Doesn't show golden hour! I marked the image where there seems to be a processing error, which is why I wondered about the original background. By the way, we found Estonia to be a beautiful and friendly place earlier this year. Charles (talk) 11:39, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

@Charlesjsharp: I haven't checked camera time for ages, but calculator (http://www.golden-hour.com/) shows the golden hour started on 11. august at my latitude at 20:24. And it doesn't always have to be exactly golden hour time, because even 1 hour earlier is the light much warmer than on a midday time. Only processing with that image was selective denoising and sharpening, so there is no postprocessing error. --Ivar (talk) 11:59, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Charles (talk) 12:03, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Photos of edible plants

Head Jannipäeva! I recently created an Android app of Edible Plants of Estonia (https://www.ev100.ee/et/eesti-soodavate-taimede-app), and I procured images of the plants from Commons. I noticed some of the best images were from your user, so I looked up your profile, and I was very pleasantly surprised to see you were Estonian! Thank you so much for making these wonderful photos available. Nuffle (talk) 07:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Copyright

Dear Ivar,

we would like to use the following pictures for a biodiversity handout to train and inform farmers in the context of biodiversity:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombus_terrestris_-_Tilia_cordata_-_Keila-crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caucalis_platycarpos1_eF.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teufelskralle_1_FoNo.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tilia_oliveri_JPG1Fe.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rumex_acetosa_-_Hapu_oblikas.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trifolium_pratense_-_Keila2.jpg https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Achillea_ptarmica_-_v%C3%B5sa-raudrohi.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cirsium_heterophyllum_-_villohakas.jpg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Bombus_hypnorum_-_Tilia_cordata_-_Keila.jpg

Your name along with a link to the original file and the CC license will be cited in the picture index (sorted by page number and picture order)

Although the license allows to use the picture in the described way, I nevertheless wanted to know whether it is ok if we use these pictures?

I would be happy if you could sent me a short answer!

Many thanks in advance. Kind Regards, Ulrike

Fixing

I've FPD-ed Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Chrysococcyx osculans - Glen Davis.jpg and archived it so that you can do the nom again by using the /2 and reset the clock for a new proper nom, otherwise this will just be floating out there until the bot closes it. Please nominate it again when you have an opening. :-) --Cart (talk) 10:55, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Cart: thanks, I was rushing things. --Ivar (talk) 11:00, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

FPC Trichoglossus forsteni forsteni - Karlsruhe Zoo

Hallo Ifar, I have reworked the picture according the poposals of Cart, could you please have again a look at the nomination? Thanks --Llez (talk) 17:55, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Extra datas accessibility

Dear Ivar, the saturation of this picture is excessive also in my view, but how do you find vibrance is +42? -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:45, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

@Basile Morin: Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer Have a nice day! --Ivar (talk) 05:27, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Interesting. Thanks! -- Basile Morin (talk) 07:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Euproctis similis caterpillar - Niitvälja bog.jpg

Hi Iifar, I just want to let you know that this caterpillar is not Euproctis similis. I think it's a Phyllodesma, most probably P. ilicifolia or P. japonica. Best regards. --LamBoet (talk) 01:54, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

File:Papilio machaon - Daucus carota - Keila.jpg

HI Ivar, I wonder if I could use this image in my the next issue of a magazine? Best wishes, Charles

No need to ask, according to licence You can use it anywhere. --Ivar (talk) 13:02, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Sure, but I wouldn't use an image when promoting a Wikipedian's work unless you were happy. Not everyone appreciates my criticismsǃ Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:07, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Image usage statistics

Interesting info, I would be interested in similar statistics. How did you compile the data? Cheers, —kallerna (talk) 18:19, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

@Kallerna: glamtools, but category for uploaded images is needed. --Ivar (talk) 18:42, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! —kallerna (talk) 19:35, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Earth 2021

Hallo Iifar,

bald ist es soweit: Vom 1. Mai bis zum 31. Mai 2021 findet zum neunten Mal der internationale Wettbewerb Wiki Loves Earth statt. Deutschland ist zum achten Mal dabei. Dabei können unter anderem Nationalparks, Naturschutzgebiete, Geotope und Naturdenkmäler fotografiert und die Fotos hochgeladen werden. Du hast an einem der vergangenen Fotowettbewerbe teilgenommen. Deshalb laden wir dich ein, auch dieses Jahr wieder mitzumachen. Wir freuen uns auf deine Fotos!

• Sieger WLE 2020
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  Südliche Mosaikjungfer (Aeshna affinis) am Westufer des Gülper Sees
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  Bienenfresser im FFH-Gebiet Kaiserstuhl
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  Röhrling mit Fliege im Bruderwald in Bamberg
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  Strand im Nationalpark Boddenlandschaft
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  Neuntöter im Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald

Wie du bei den Top 5 des vergangenen Jahres siehst, sind vor allem Tiere unter den Siegerbildern. Aus diesem Grund setzen wir den Fokus dieses Jahr stärker auf Landschaftsaufnahmen. Aber natürlich haben auch Tierbilder eine Chance zu gewinnen.

Es sind wie immer viele spannende Motive überall in Deutschland zu finden. Neben Naturdenkmälern wie alten Bäumen oder Naturparks im Gebirge und am Meer können Geotope wie Findlinge, Quellen und Aufschlüsse oder FFH-Gebiete fotografiert werden, um sie unter anderem in der Wikipedia zu dokumentieren. Auch im vergangenen Jahr sind zahlreiche neue Listen und Artikel in diesen Bereichen entstanden, für die wir uns über Fotos freuen. Als Einstieg für die Suche nach Motiven hilft diese Übersichtsseite. Weitere Informationen erhältst du bei WLE 2021 - Deutschland und unter dieser Anleitung. Falls du im Moment nicht wie sonst in die Natur fahren kannst, findest du vielleicht in den Tiefen deiner Festplatte oder auf dem Smartphone noch interessante Fotos.

Du bist interessiert, am Wettbewerb mitzuwirken, dir fehlt aber die richtige Technik? Dann wirf doch mal einen Blick in den Technikpool und das Technikleihportal von Wikimedia Deutschland! Dort findest du Kameras, Objektive und Zubehör verschiedenster Art.

Außerdem laden wir Dich ein, vom 1. Mai bis 30. Juni 2021 an der Vorjury teilzunehmen. Damit bewertest du die hochgeladenen Bilder und ermittelst so gemeinsam mit der Jury, die im Juli tagen wird, die Sieger von Wiki Loves Earth 2021 in Deutschland. Das Vorjurytool ist bald hier freigeschaltet. Du benötigst dafür nur deinen Benutzernamen und das Passwort.

Für Fragen steht das Organisationsteam gerne auf der Support-Seite zur Verfügung.

Viel Spaß und Erfolg beim Fotowettbewerb wünscht dir im Namen des Organisationsteams --Z ^thomas 11:32, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Sulfur photo

FYI: I uploaded a color-corrected version over the original, background is now grey according to color picker, and the sulfur lost most of the green tinge. Reload the page to see the change. --Janke (talk) 18:20, 15 April 2021 (UTC)