Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charleston Hot peppers

Charleston Hot peppers [edit]

The photo is used in article pepper, and illustrates it excellently. What I personally like about the image are the colors, unusual composition and informativeness. Photo is taken by Scott Bauer of the US Agricultural Research Service.

Nominate and support. - Nikola 12:25, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Great shot! Support Oppose D e nni ☯ 02:36, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Horrible artifacts and image quality. Enochlau 06:20, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose check the fullsize image. The thumbnail looks great, but the fullsize version is utter crap. --Dschwen 12:22, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I think "utter crap" might be a wee tad too strong. There are some issues with focus in the large version (which are why I'm changing my vote) but if that were fixed, I think this would be a worthy candidate. D e nni ☯ 21:19, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I currently agree with Dschwen. If somebody (possibly me when I have time) could correct the colour and contrast and lower the resolution a bit then it would be fine. It looks like it's been enlarged beyond its original res at the moment. —Vanderdecken^∫ξφ 19:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I guess it's me, but all I can see is the image being slightly fuzzy. Can someone please point out the horrible artefacts mentioned above? - Mgm|^(talk) 09:09, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The original version from the USDA is somewhat, but not much better. I keep getting errors when trying to download the advertised 300dpi variant. Lupo 09:13, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I was able to download the file. I uploaded it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charleston_Hot_peppers_usda_original.jpg 842 kb, larger than before. I'm relatively new here, so my apologies if I did something wrong. --vaeiou 15:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment I figured out how to do it. Needs a bit of cropping. --vaeiou 15:34, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: reluctantly agree that its too fuzzy. Great idea, nice colours, badly focussed. For a professional shot that seems odd. William M. Connolley 14:03, 26 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]
( − ) Oppose I have uploaded an edit with a white background which I think will be an improvement for whatever article the photo is in, but I still don't think its FP worthy. --Fir0002 08:01, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - too "artistic" composition to illustrate the subject. --Lysy ^(talk) 19:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Too artistic? How else would you illustrate the various stages of maturity in a hot pepper? --mdd4696 02:12, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see that this is not going to be featured, but to answer anyway: if I would illustrate various stages of maturity, I would do it by placing peppers one below or aside the other. Author of the image used the circle, which is way better, and one of the reasons I recommended the image. Nikola 22:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support All of these object votes kind of baffle me, but then most of them came before Fir's edit, which to my eyes addresses all the technical problems.—jiy (talk) 07:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Not promoted Broken S 02:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]