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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Food_and_drink#Fruits_and_raw_vegetables
Info created - uploaded - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 05:42, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 05:42, 12 February 2018 (UTC)- Support - Excellent portrait of what's called jambu air in Malay, and for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of eating this fruit, try it whenever you're in a country that grows it. It's tart, crunchy, watery (air is Malay for water) and refreshing in hot weather. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:36, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:33, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Oppose All food/product photos on FPC must be focus stacked with at least a dozen frames. Minimum. Ok, only joking. I don't find the arrangement very appetising with a plain white plate on a white table. And the lighting generates deep hard shadows. A QI, but not what I'd expect from our best food photography. -- Colin (talk) 09:17, 12 February 2018 (UTC)- Oppose per Colin--Ermell (talk) 11:14, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose The white plate on white background looks too clinical for me. I don't understand this way of presenting so many food shots on white boring bowls or plates. With all the fantastic hand crafted things in Laos, surely you could get hold of a basket, wooden bowl or something more in tone with the leaves and fruits. I can understand if this is done to get a neutral color for some food, but in this photo all such reason is lost since it is shot in a yellowish afternoon light. --cart-Talk 12:11, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
- The reason why I used a simple plate is basically to indicate that this fruit is edible. Without element of this kind, how to guess that one can eat it, really ? It's such a rare fruit, most of the people have never seen it, neither in a shop nor in a book. Then, putting it in a plate (and most of the plates are traditionally white, like glasses are transparent) gives an extra information on the product, I think -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:53, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
- There is always a balance between making and informative photo or an aesthetic. On Wikipedia FP the informative wins and on Commons FP aesthetics are usually held in higher regard. Btw, placing something on a white plate doesn't guarantee that you should eat it. :) --cart-Talk 15:11, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
- Perhaps someone should take a picture of some Tide detergent pods on a white plate with some appealing sides and condiments. No, they shouldn't. Daniel Case (talk) 20:29, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
- Sure, Cart, they are exceptions. And always a balance between what is common and what is less. So, one is free to add this counterexample in the Category:Plates_with_fruits to make the exception :-) -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Question - It's a rare fruit in Laos? Unless something fairly cataclysmic happened since the last time I was in Malaysia in 2003, it's not rare at all there! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:01, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, it's a rare fruit, and if it was not, you would certainly not have described the taste and the consistance for the readers who have never tasted it. This is not a mango, a pineapple, or a coconut, this is rarer. I'm not saying the syzygium samarangense cannot be found in some specific places, I'm just saying it's not widespread in the world. Laos included (although it can grow here). Not common in the markets, neither in small or big cities. Cherimoya, dragonfruit, jackfruit, or durian are also exotic, but surely better known, through their names and appearances. If the syzygium samarangense was not so rare, it would certainly be already among the 104 other fruits identified in this list, including the kumquat, the longan, the jabuticaba, and the nance. And do we know all of them ? -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
- Weak oppose per Colin. As appealing as it may have been at the time, the warm light does the food no favors; it makes it look a bit stale. And the shadow is distracting. Daniel Case (talk) 20:24, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Three green leaves, three green supports, four red fruits, four red opposes. Next time I'll adjust the ratio :-) -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:42, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
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