Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Sturts desert pea.jpg

Sturts Desert Pea

An unusual image to come out of a day at the zoo (it's so dangerous it needs to be kept behind 400,000 volt electric fence and requires human sacrifices to feed it ;-)) but a good image IMO nevertheless. It was quite challenging to capture the vibrant red of the flower without blowing the red channel, but I think this pic does a good job at it.

Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 07:28, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Unfortunately, this image looks "messy" (even in full size), because of the mottled background and the foreground leaves. The composition also feels lop-sided. You can do better! --Janke | Talk 09:33, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. That's what HDR is for isn't it? Anyway I agree with janke, too confusing and messy --⁪froth^{T C} 22:15, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, HDR wouldn't be useful for this scene --Fir0002 23:09, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you lowered the red channel in other areas then the red on the flowers would be "redder" relative to the rest of the image and you can get more red in the image without blowing it out. HDR doesn't necessarily have to be for brightness, the same principle applies to colors too --⁪froth^{T C} 03:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I agree with the people who say its messy, although i think the colours are nice, if theres another picture with the same subject that wouldn't be bad. User:Voshvoshka
Weak oppose both. Per above. I prefer the alternate, but it suffers from the same problems as the nominee, and I don't like the harsh lighting caused by what seems to be a flash. --Tewy 01:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose As stated above the leaves in the background are distracting and also the picture just doesn't have to much of an attractiveness. A good picture just not featured picture material. --¿Why 1 9 9 1 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 04:13, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Moderate Oppose as per Why1991's comment. -- Alt iris Exeunt 11:56, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice colours, but the capital sin of this picture is the composition (or the lack of it). Alvesgaspar 14:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Composition aside, I also don't quite like the harsh lighting on the plant, why did you use flash? --antilived ^{T | C | G} 22:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --KFP (talk | contribs) 16:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]