Commons:Photography critiques/July 2018

For this image, feedback or critique from an economist, journalist or researcher specialized in offshore tax avoidance would be appreciated

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  Group structure and statistics of “Gourmet Master Co. Ltd.”, as of 31 December 2017 - 「開曼美食達人股份有限公司」的集團架構及統計，截至2017年12月31日

Please open the the original SVG file on a desktop browser other than Internet Explorer to interact with and explore the statistical analysis within the image) in which I have included data, mainly extracted from this PDF (mostly starting from page 159).

To improve the usability and quality of this interactive image, I would like to get some feedback or critique from an economist, journalist or researcher specialized in tax avoidance or international structures of companies. In particular, I would like to hear what other data categories I should include into the image for particular interest.

Kind regards, Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 11:17, 8 July 2018 (UTC).

@Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen: This is where photographers talk about photographs. Suggest you try something like en:Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Economics if you want to talk about content or Commons:Graphics village pump if you want to talk about the technical aspects of the illustration. --El Grafo (talk) 13:33, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: El Grafo (talk) 13:33, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

@El Grafo: Thank you, moved to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Economics#For_this_image,_feedback_or_critique_from_an_economist,_journalist_or_researcher_specialized_in_offshore_tax_avoidance_would_be_appreciated Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 15:16, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Corpse flower at NYBG

A couple weeks ago the New York Botanical Garden announced that its corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) would be blooming in the next few days. When it started to open, they opened early and closed late, drawing big crowds. The corpse flower is the largest unbranched inflorescence (one of the largest flowers, basically), opens for only a couple days, only opens once every few years, and smells faintly of death. As someone who gets excited about such things (not the smell of death, but the chance to see an unusual/spectacular entity like this), I went up there and took a whole lot of pictures. Going through them at home, I was a little disappointed at my results.

It was in a conservatory with bright windows everywhere, packed with people, with no tripods allowed, and no direct light (that I can recall) on the flower itself, aside from daylight coming in through the glass roof. I took some with a flash and some without. One of the most common problems was washing out the detail of the spadix (the big yellow thing). I've tried to compensate for that in post-processing. I also struggled to find a good background (getting into a good position through the people was hard on its own).

I used two lenses: a 20mm f1.7 prime, wide-angle 12mm F2.0 prime/manual focus. I also tried to use a macro, but my macro is 60mm (120mm equivalent in fullframe) and it just wasn't possible to get far enough away given the crowd and other plants in the way -- not that a macro lens would be the ideal for such a large subject anyway.

Gallery below. Would love thoughts on what I could've done differently and/or approaches to editing. Don't get me wrong -- I don't think they're terrible; I just had high hopes. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  16:46, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

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• @Rhododendrites: I personally prefer the second-last one. Very detailed and focused on the subject, and minimal distraction IMO. ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 23:16, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Please review a photo as a candidate for QI candidates

A memorial to jews who were murdered in October 1941 in Dukora, Puchavičy district, Belarus

This is a photo recently uploaded by one of Commons users. Please review it because I once boldly nominated another image for FI and only one user supported it. Now I have doubts about any nomination. --Jarash (talk) 07:13, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

• @Jarash: Not much to condemn at 100% size. Problems: 1. Overexposed flower too. 2. Slight CA at trees. ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 08:16, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

• All these are fixable. ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 08:16, 27 July 2018 (UTC)