Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:LantanaFlowerLeaves.jpg

Image:LantanaFlowerLeaves.jpg

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•  Info Macro shot of a flower and leaves of Lantana camara. The flower has a diameter of about 3-4 cm. Created and nominated by Joaquim Alves Gaspar -- Alvesgaspar 23:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Alvesgaspar 23:48, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice, great colors, and good composition. --Digon3 02:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I agree with Digon. The colours are lovely. --norro 07:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support beautiful --Jacopo 09:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral The colors are beautiful, but I'd like to see more definition and sharpness in the flowers themselves. It appears that the focus is on the leaf, not the flowers. The flowers appear slightly overexposed, only occupying ~12% of the tonal range, although they are not blown out. Maybe better focus would fix this. At f/4 on a 2/3" sensor, it is approaching defraction effects (~f/4.4), but perhaps a little more depth of field would have been nice, but this is a minor point as this is close to f/10 or f/11 on a DSLR. -- Ram-Man 13:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Winiar^✉ 14:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I'm finding this subject beautiful (and the nice composition certainly helps). I agree with Ram Man that it very slightly lacks sharpness, but I think it's a issue shared by all pictures from Alvesgaspar and not a misfocus problem. I don't think it's overexposed. Benh 16:34, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  •  Info - I don't have a DSLR (yet) and my presente camera, although excellent in many aspects, suffers from some unsharpness and chromatic noise in full resolution, even with relatively low ISO settings. But I prefer to have soft pictures than artificial fringing or the presence of artifacts. It is an aesthetical preference, I suppose. I take this limitation as a chalenge, while I can't aspire to the equipment (and talent!) of Dilif and Fir... Alvesgaspar 21:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Many people are not skilled enough to exceed the limits of their equipment. Clearly you are. Non-SLRs tend to be sharp at macro only in the center of the frame, perhaps that is the issue here. -- Ram-Man 12:21, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the compliment, but you might well replace skill with patience, persistence and hard word. The nicest thing about digital photography is that it is now easy and cheap to shoot 100 times and chose the best one. Alvesgaspar 14:06, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Simonizer 08:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Bergwolf 19:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC) really nice !
•  Support --Makro Freak 20:23, 18 May 2007 (UTC) Very good!

 9 support, 1 neutral, 0 oppose >> featured - Alvesgaspar 12:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

New version - not featured

 Info - I'm adding a new version in which the leaves and buds are sharper. Not sure which one is best - Alvesgaspar 15:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

•  Support The other one has better colours, but this one a better DOF. So Iam supporting both --Simonizer 08:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- Lycaon 07:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

 2 support, 0 oppose >> not featured - Alvesgaspar 12:51, 19 May 2007 (UTC)