Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Steam-boiling green asparagus.jpg

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File:Steam-boiling green asparagus.jpg, featured[edit]

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Steam-boiling green asparagus
  •  Support -- P999 (talk) 16:42, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't get it but I don't see anything featurable here. The harsh shadows on the left and the overexposure on the right don't help. The handle on the left is cut. The angle of view isn't what I'd call very creative and makes the second hotplate appear in the back. That spoils the composition to me which would otherwise at least be somewhat clearer. A look from e.g. exactly above would give it a more graphical (2D) look and could be interesting. Yes, it's pin-sharp but that alone doesn't make it FP to me. So could please someone explain to me where all the support-votes come from? I really don't understand it. --Code (talk) 07:46, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Food photography often crops something -- many such photos don't include the whole circle of a plate for example, even though our natural tendancy is to include everything. I don't think the handle would add anything here, and isn't the subject. The white surface on the top right is a bit over-exposed I guess (though doesn't seem blown) but I didn't notice it as I was looking at the pot. The hard shadows of the asparagus tips isn't a negative I think, repeating the pattern and emphasising the tips. While I think we do demand too often the sort of front-to-back focus-sharpness that only focus-stacking can achieve, here it has meant that both the boiling water and the tips are in focus, which is probably not possible otherwise. I like that both are sharp, as the boiling water is interesting when snapped fast like this. I agree that a view from above might be interesting for it's 2D effect on the round saucepan. But it would be hard to achieve with all that steam, and would be more of abstract work (since nobody looks at saucepans of boiling water from that angle) than food photography. And, as I noted above, photography like this demands pefect cleanliness. I'm afraid my cooker, when viewed 100%, would show up food debris, and my saucepans have hard-water marks. -- Colin (talk) 08:11, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Ok, time to explain why I made this photo. The main subject is the boiling water and the steam. People here go nuts over fountains, waterfalls and mist, but who has ever tried to capture this water feature we see every day at home? I wanted to see if I could "freeze" the boiling water the same way you do falling water. To get it in context I wanted to cook something, also not so common here. We mostly get raw or prepared food, the process is seldom shown. You can't "freeze" the boiling water in an indoors photo without a flash so there will be shadows, though these are not as harsh as some we see in outdoors bug photos. I had to have the second hotplate in the background or the steam would not be visible against the white. If someone has a black stove with dark surroundings, they will get a better shot at this. Having a handle-less pot would look daft. I had to cut it since it extended over to the two hotplates next to these two and those would really spoil the composition. Stoves are made that way. I chose a pot with a split handle to get a less solid look for the cut part. The "white surface on the top right" looks very white since it is mostly steam illuminated by the flash. It may look like a simple shot, but it took me half a day and more than 200 photos to get the five I wanted for the image (steam moves around as does the asparagus from the boiling, and the bubbles are not always perfect). You don't have to "get this" or like it but at least I tried something new here. --Cart (talk) 09:07, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ok, thanks for the explanation. I absolutely can imagine that it meant a lot of work to take this photo. The result is certainly of good quality (as I already said), however, that's still not the kind of photograph that I would feature so I abstain from voting here. --Code (talk) 09:26, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's perfectly ok. I also wanted it to look like a normal cooking situation since my other kitchen-related photos got negative comments when I tried something more artistic, people obviously want to be able to relate to food/kitchen photos. --Cart (talk) 09:30, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 9 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 09:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Food and drink
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