Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Cone and holly.jpg

Image:Cone and holly.jpg, not featured

•  Info created by Charlie2301 - uploaded by Charlie2301 - nominated by Arria Belli Arria Belli | parlami 23:27, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support While I do realize the berries in the background may be distracting to some, I quite like the overall effect. Happy holidays. Arria Belli | parlami 23:27, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support per Arria, I love this!--Nick1915 23:29, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Great picture. –Animum 01:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC) 01:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I tried something along these lines last Christmas, and failed miserably. RedCoat 10:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent. Actually, "Excellent" isn't high enough praise. This is one of those images I simply love to look at! Absolutely outstanding work. Cpl Syx 19:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

 Comment It's strange but the shallow DOF is what actually makes this photograph so good in my opinion - maybe I'm just being swayed by the seasonal theme of the image! --Cpl Syx 04:27, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

•  Support - Terrific. The level of detail is amazing. Husky ^{(talk to me)} 22:44, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- Slaunger 23:27, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose The DOF is too shallow for me in this crowded composition. Dori - Talk 02:09, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Support DOF could be better, but in general a very nice picture. -- MJJR 18:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose The DoF is way too shallow. Considering that my own pictures of similar cone compositions are labeled as compositionally weak, this seems a tad inconsistent. The cone is "growing out" of the picture, and the holly is out-of-focus that it just detracts. The Holly leaf divides the image into what seem like to separate pictures. -- Ram-Man 03:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ram-Man and Dori. Also too kitschy for my taste. Lycaon 07:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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  the cone is better measured in millimeters or centimeters? More than half of the one of the subjects is out of focus. No disqualified template has been used on this image.
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  Disqualitied for DOF and noise (which are both problems here). The subject is a baby bee in the first few seconds of life. DOF is measured in millimeters and is a much more difficult subject to capture. The original image is part of what is honestly a great set of photographs documenting the birth of an insect. Happy Holidays all!!

-- carol 11:43, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 Comment Missing here is the indiscriminate placement of a template saying that the image will probably not be accepted due to DOF problems. -- carol 15:44, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose. focus /Ö 16:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Composition divides onto two separate areas which compete with eachother for attention. --MichaelMaggs 22:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Ack MichaelMaggs, plus the holly berries are completely out of focus which creates a weird ambivalence of them being background and subject at the same time. --Dschwen 22:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Composition and dof --Beyond silence 15:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
• A reject template would be inappropriate because there are people who are prepared to support it despite the faults. However, I am not one of them.  Oppose per Dschwen, RamMan. Ben Aveling 08:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, mind-reading? The templates are applied usually extremely quickly in the candidates tenure here. Ben Aveling, what qualifies you for this expertise in how it works? The templates are usually applied within 30 hours. How does one know if there is going to be support for an image or not and if one knows, what reason is there to enter it into a contest like this? -- carol 09:14, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

• No mind reading involved; there are people who have already voted for it. Regards, Ben Aveling 19:28, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose due to poor composition and depth of field. Cacophony 00:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral This is beautiful but the DOF is too shallow and a few dust. -- Laitche 16:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

result: 8 support, 8 oppose 9 oppose, 1 neutral => not featured. Simonizer 13:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC) Laitche 14:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)