Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Perovskia atriplicifolia II

Perovskia atriplicifolia edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Sep 2015 at 01:09:42 (UTC)

Original – Native to southwestern and central Asia, Perovskia atriplicifolia is one of the most popular landscaping and gardening plants of the last 20 years.

Reason: Meets the criteria: is high-resolution, technically sound, and imparts strong EV.
Articles in which this image appears: Perovskia atriplicifolia
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Others
Creator: RO

Support as nominator – RO ^(talk) 01:09, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Although it is a new picture, it still suffers from the same issues as your previous nomination for the same plant... Most of the centre of the plant is out of focus, and the bar is quite high for pictures of plants - This for example is a similar looking plant (structure wise) and the difference in focus is massive... Similarly with this one too... gazhiley 16:23, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Crisco 1492 said "the composition is almost perfect":([1]), and Gerda Arendt liked it so much she put it on her talk page. RO ^(talk) 16:34, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well ultimately everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so I won't say anything against their's... But almost perfect composition doesn't necessarily mean it's at a quality level required for Featured Pictures... It is a nice picture, I grant you that, and at thumbnail it is really pretty... But at full zoom it is mostly blurred... gazhiley 16:53, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That first example is an incredibly small portion of that plant, and it's resolution (1,800 by 1,300) does not meet the current minimum standard for FP, so the comparison is unfair, and the second has blurriness to my eyes, or at least the focus isn't perfect, is it? RO ^(talk) 18:44, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It led DYK Aug. 29. Sca (talk) 20:24, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Because of depth of field. I wouldn't even promote it as a quality image. Should be re-taken with a greater depth of field (preferably focus stacking, or at least more closed down aperture) SkywalkerPL (talk) 21:12, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Cropped out of the lower part of the plant. Exploringlife (talk) 05:22, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Exploringlife, I'm not sure what you mean. This is the top part of the plant. RO ^(talk) 15:40, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Limited angle, obviously must have more flowers below bottom boundary of the picture. Exploringlife (talk) 16:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's a macro shot, Exploringlife, so it's impossible to get the plant from top to bottom in one shot. This holds true for all the other macro FPs on Wikipedia. RO ^(talk) 16:14, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral Nice photo, but per others. --Tremonist (talk) 15:14, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:29, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]