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Saffron harvesting in north east of Iran edit

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Original – Saffron harvesting, Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran

Reason: Full EV and high quality
Articles in which this image appears: Saffron, Torbat-e Heydarieh, and Crocus sativus
FP category for this image
Creator: User:Safa.daneshvar

Support as nominator --Alborzagros (talk) 04:45, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Question - Why is the DOF so shallow? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:15, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I am not good at photographing. I just nominated the picture. If anybody can answer Crisco's question, please type it.Alborzagros (talk) 10:44, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - I think DOF is a very good choice, focusing the viewer on the action in the centre. The image caption could be much better though, explaining why is it cultivated/harvested and why do people wear masks. --ELEKHH^T 12:30, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - The OOF at the bottom is quite distracting. As such, I agree with Adam: there should be a bit cropped off the bottom. I can see how the DOF got so shallow... f3.2 at 200 mm will do that. I'd have gone with f4.5 or 5.6 at 200mm, with an ISO of 200 or so, which would have more of the foreground and background in focus (and the noise would have been manageable). This appears to have already been cropped, or downsampled (most likely the latter, considering how rounded the numbers are), as the camera has an 8.25 megapixel maximum output. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's under the normal minimum resolution, and should probably have about 50-100 pixels cropped out of the bottom, which would put it more under. I'd probably be willing to waive the resolution on this one, as long as it's not downsampled (As the harvesting tends to happen in parts of the world without easy access to high-resolution cameras), but do want to crop it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:50, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per evidence that this has been unnecessarily downsampled and (essentially) per Saffron Blaze's comment at the Commons FPC. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:22, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support as in Commons and as one who added it the articles. It seems the focal length and DOF a conscious choice by the photographer to capture the action without bringing the attention of the subjects. See how the flowers are flying to the basket. The article says "Harvests are by necessity a speedy affair: after blossoming at dawn, flowers quickly wilt as the day passes." Further, this is one of the toughest job by humans even though it doesn't look so. I don't think it is possible to avoid the foreground blur even with a smaller aperture without breaking the "keep the camera inline with the subjects" rule. It will damage the composition too. The only drawback is heavy down sampling. J e e 08:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:35, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]