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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Family : Convolvulaceae
Info All by me, -- cart-Talk 11:33, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Support -- cart-Talk 11:33, 20 January 2018 (UTC)- Support -- PumpkinSky talk 12:51, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support Beautiful and nice. -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 12:54, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
Oppose Beautiful flower, but the background is overly busy and the light too harsh for FP IMO. Daniel Case (talk) 02:51, 23 January 2018 (UTC)- Oppose I find the colors pale, as if the flowers were overexposed. If not, then the contrasts are harsh and the light too strong. The central flower is sharp, but the second one not so interesting and there is like purple CA on it -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:07, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- Daniel Case & Basile Morin, Just for info: These flowers are very pale in color, so that part is accurate. The current FP is almost white and has not as much detail in the petal as this, please compare. It was a hand-held shot so no chance of focus stacking. I had to back away a couple of meters to get the DoF deep enough to cover the whole flower and maybe the bud. The side view if the third flower was just bonus, but I found it nice that there could at least show an outline of what the flowers looked like from the side. The mishmash collection of other plants is just how these flowers grow, climbing on other plants, so I think that is an appropriate depiction. The light is very bright, high summer, but that made it possible to see the fine silk sheen of the flower, something normally lost in other photos of these plants. I have washed away the CA in Lightroom, so the slight purple sheen is probably some other color thing. --cart-Talk 12:30, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- @W.carter: , sorry for the late answer, for a mysterious reason I got only one of your 2 pings yesterday. So, I had a look on the other FP you point out and see big differences between both. Sure the quality is not the same and this very old FPC from 2007 was of quite low resolution compared to that new one. But the required standards were certainly not as high at this time, and I'm not sure the picture would got the same supports today. However, the lighting was good, and as indicated on the reviews Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/Image:Convolvulus_arvenvis_with_mites.jpg the mites on the photo give something special, rather original. For me, the main problem in this FPC really is the light. At noon, the pooring sun hits like a hammer and of course it's visible. Compare to this File:Convolvulus_arvensis_11.jpg for example. Or simply compare to your last FPC set, which was excellent Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/Set/Development_of_hogweed_bud with 3 beautiful specimen harmoniously highlighted and all of them shot after 4pm. The problem is not that this picture was hand-held, but really that the light kills it. Maybe another RAW treatment with lower exposition could improve, but not sure. For this kind of subject, the lighting is very important. Flowers like insects are at their best appearance with a grazing light, early morning or late afternoon. The leaves with such radical contrasts are also not very delicate and attractive IMO. Thus, I agree concerning the sharpness and the fine details of the main flower, certainly valuable, but the big white in the eyes doesn't make the whole outstanding, sorry -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:17, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
- Basile, thanks you for taking the time to answer even though I had already pull the nom. I will see what tricks I can do with this and if oppinions can change then. If not, it's not the end of the world. :) I sometimes think we Northerners who live in darkness for such long time each year are a bit too fond of strong sunlight and see a wow in that itself. A bientôt! --cart-Talk 11:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose harsh light - Benh (talk) 21:50, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Ok, I think I'll withdraw this, rework the light in the photo and start with a fresh nom after that. I'm not giving up just yet on this, since I'm quite fond of it. Thanks all for your comments. BRB! :) --cart-Talk 23:55, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
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