Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dark purple Trichoglottis

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Original – Dark purple Trichoglottis orchid

Reason: Dark purple Trichoglottis orchid (Trichoglottis atropurpurea) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This is a VI and QI on Commons and I find that I keep coming back to it. Nominated for FP on Commons a while back and have since made a few adjustments based on feedback provided there.
Articles in which this image appears: Trichoglottis atropurpurea, Trichoglottis
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
Creator: Rhododendrites

Support as nominator – — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:55, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 11:33, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Nice image... is it possible to darken the background a bit so the lattice isn't as prominent? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:24, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Crisco 1492: Thanks. I had a go at darkening in the version that was nominated, but have uploaded two more versions. version at time of nomination, slightly darker, playing with levels, and the current version, bringing the brightness down too. It can go even darker, of course -- I'm just worried about it looking artificial, maybe? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:44, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CSS image crop

Support - Looks good to me. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:49, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Rhododendrites, I am leaning to support, how about a tighter crop, for example CSS image crop on right? Bammesk (talk) 16:48, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Bammesk: Thanks. Personally, I prefer being able to see the whole "arm", but you are not the first person to propose such a crop. I'd like to see this one through before attempting the crop (since it's already a QI/VI, a major change like that would require a separate file/nomination anyway). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:58, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Bammesk (talk) 02:02, 15 May 2018 (UTC) . . . sidenote: alternates can be added to noms and voted on, examples [1], [2] [reply]

@Tomer T: not sure what that means. Is that jargon I'm unfamiliar with? — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 16:36, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if that's the correct term, but you can notice many unnatural "spots" or "halos" around the flowers and leaves in full resolution. Tomer T (talk) 09:42, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that's due to some inaccuracy in masking when the background was darkened - halos not visible in original photo, first in the upload history... --Janke | Talk 10:41, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Tomer T and Janke: Yes indeed, thanks. I've gone ahead and reworked the edits pretty significantly, uploading a new version. Hopefully this addresses what you're talking about? New version / previous version — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:21, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Given the edits above are rather late and this nomination will be closing in a couple hours, if this is closed as not promoted before there are any more comments, perhaps you could let me know on my talk page, Tomer T and Janke, if you think it would be worth renominating the newest version. Thanks (sorry for the second ping). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 22:28, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:27, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:27, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]