Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Flower February 2008-2.jpg

Image:Flower February 2008-2.jpg, not featured

•  Info A Common Hawkweed flower (Hieracium lachanalli). I wasn't really thinking of nomination this flower, but then I saw the excellent picture of Ram-man below... Created and nominated by Alvesgaspar
•  Support --Alvesgaspar 22:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Lycaon 03:46, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent, though I think getting rid of the green blobs in the background would improve it even more. Calibas 06:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer 11:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- MJJR 22:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't like the nearly black background. I prefer the green natural background of your other nominations. --norro 10:03, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Looks very flat and has no plasticity. As the leaves growing in a 45 degree angel this composition is not very significant --Richard Bartz 18:04, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't like the light and the DOF is too shallow for my taste. --Dori - Talk 02:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  •  Comment The DoF is essentially at a maximum here. Due to diffraction from such a small aperture, the effective resolution of the source image is close to 5MP, rather than 10MP, so viewing this image at 100% is going to look noticeably soft. Downsampling would sharpen it for web viewing while eliminating detail that doesn't really exist, but I wouldn't oppose for this reason. Any other DoF issue is really a focus problem. -- Ram-Man 04:47, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
    • The DOF may be at maximum with this lens/focal length, but another choice would probably give a wider DOF, and I'd prefer more background if it means a sharper all around flower. --Dori - Talk 06:33, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose I appreciate the difficulty in getting flower FPs, since flowers are my photographic specialty (as opposed to insects, which are proverbial FP cake walks). However, for a static flower image like this, you need at least the following: 1) A sharp photo, 2) Adequate DoF, 3) A pleasant background. The background is too dark for a flower this common. -- Ram-Man 04:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Support--Beyond silence 09:20, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Lerdsuwa 17:23, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose As Richard Bartz. --Karelj 20:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

result: 7 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. Simonizer 15:43, 22 February 2008 (UTC)