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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 15 Dec 2014 at 19:46:47 (UTC)
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Info created by Frank Schulenburg – uploaded by Frank Schulenburg – nominated by Frank Schulenburg --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 19:46, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 19:46, 6 December 2014 (UTC)- Support Tomer T (talk) 20:26, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Oppose EoRdE6 (talk) 20:31, 6 December 2014 (UTC)- Our common practice here is to explain the reasons of an "oppose" vote, as a courtesy for the author, and in order to provide good advices for a next nomination. Would you please do so ? Thanks in advance.--Jebulon (talk) 20:39, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry that was supposed to go somewhere else, all good. Thanks! EoRdE6 (talk) 20:47, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
- Our common practice here is to explain the reasons of an "oppose" vote, as a courtesy for the author, and in order to provide good advices for a next nomination. Would you please do so ? Thanks in advance.--Jebulon (talk) 20:39, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Neutral Back of the cheese is out of focus, which could have been fixed by focus stacking. Still, not serious enough to oppose. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:25, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
- I think it is a dangerous way... Do you mean that still-life photographs without focus stacking can never more be FP ?--Jebulon (talk) 22:43, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
- I'm actually concerned about the many times I've heard people demanding 100% sharpness across all levels as a precondition for featured picture status. As always, sharpness is a means to express something specific, to highlight certain areas of a shot, etc. That's not different for food photography than for landscape shots. In this specific case: does it spoil the overall impression of the image that some of the pepper flakes on the back of the cheese are unsharp (which, by the way, is only noticeable if you zoom in)? No. Does it deteriorate the encyclopedic value, or, in other words, are the pepper flakes in the back really different from the pepper flakes in the front of the cheese and need to be super-sharp, so that the viewer can notice the difference? No. In general, I'd like more people here to experiment with bokeh, I'd like to see more images where the foreground is highlighted by a different level of sharpness (because the background of the object is in no ways different than the foreground), I'd like more people tolerate diversity. In particular in food photography. Thanks. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:26, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
- I think it is a dangerous way... Do you mean that still-life photographs without focus stacking can never more be FP ?--Jebulon (talk) 22:43, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
- Support -- ChristianFerrer 09:21, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose nice, but: the red background is a no go for me: because the cheese has also red items on his surface and a focus stack will be better. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:17, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
- You're right. The more I look at it, the more I don't like the background. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:58, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Comment It´s, in my opinion - and photoshop proves it - that f/22 was perfect. In principle, you did everything right. The focus point was just 3 cm in front of the center. But where is a sharp point on a creamy surface?? I think, the problem is not just the question of a focus point: even, when the used zoom-lens is a really good one, its maybe not adequate for pictures like this. You should use a 35 to 50mm prime lens or - even better - a macro lens. No zoom! It must not be a perfect one, even with a cheap one, you may get better results. Here is a list of lenses, starting with 260 €. The next is the Question of lightning. Look at those here, these softboxes are cheap and easy to handle and give a smooth, controllable light (by enhancing distance). Additionally, you need two of those bulbs (110V of course, not 230!) and you have more light as you need. Maybe a third one from the top makes everything more diffuse without any or just slightly shadows. Every advice jus IMHO, of course. And think about all the californian cheese you will picture (and eat!) in the next two years! ;-) --Hubertl (talk) 10:19, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Thanks for the feedback. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:58, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
