Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Lotus Nelumbo nucifera Flower Large 3264px.jpg

Image:Lotus Nelumbo nucifera Flower Large 3264px.jpg - not featured edit

Info created, uploaded, and nominated by Ram-Man. 05:16, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Info A lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) flower in full bloom.
Support -- Ram-Man 05:16, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose centre not in focus, colours too light --Karelj 20:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I can't begin to understand this comment. Look at the leaf on the left, it's top tip is behind the flower and its bottom tip is in front of the flower. The entire leaf is in focus, thus the flower is also in focus. What you are seeing is probably diffraction effects from the extremely small aperture (approximately equivalent to f/28 on a 35mm film camera) descreasing the effective spatial resolution, but unless our standards now require downsampling from a point-and-shoot camera, this shouldn't be an issue. Since the actual resolution of this image is probably around 4MP, I'll downsample it to that point if you'd be willing to change your vote. Otherwise, why bother? As for the colors, that's just nonsense. This is what the flower looked like. Compare it to this image of the same flower from a different camera. -- Ram-Man 20:47, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Question It seems that the plant was taken indoor. Isnt it ? --Makro Freak 00:53, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Nope, it was taken in an outdoor pond. All these assumptions :) Look for the "Pond Garden" here. I've also added geocoding. -- Ram-Man 01:06, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The lack of success of this image has much to do with the delicate colours of the flower and we can't blame the photographer for it. Maybe with a little more green ... ;-) - Alvesgaspar 11:13, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Lack of success with only two votes? Seems like lack of opinion to me. In any case, I'm not sure what you mean about the colors. Do people honestly have a problem with how this flower looks? I don't understand that at all. The colors are very beautiful. -- Ram-Man 17:47, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Neutral~~ Support I do like the colours, and the POV. ~~But the tight framing (just) prevents me from supporting.~~ What the heck, it's good enough for FP Lycaon 22:59, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support ack Lycaon, but I still don't like the very tight framing on the right. --Digon3 18:03, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jina Lee 16:11, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Question I suppose there is no chance that we could get another 2 oppose votes or a single support vote to reach a quorum here? Why exactly are these pictures being ignored? They deserve a full vote. -- Ram-Man 03:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One reason I almost didn't vote because I didn't quite know whether to support or oppose. It was very hard for me to judge this photo and probably hard for other people too. --Digon3 16:30, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 4 support, 1 oppose >> not featured - Alvesgaspar 20:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]