Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Syzygium malaccense, Yogyakarta

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Original – A flower of a Syzygium malaccense, located in Dlingo, Special Region of Yogyakarta. It was about an hour's drive from my home.

Reason: High resolution and nice and sharp; the fairly dark background is due to the foliage overhead (the crown was hanging over the flower). The bokeh isn't too bad either. I'm surprised I got this out of my camera, to be honest.
Articles in which this image appears: Syzygium malaccense
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
Creator: Crisco 1492

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:08, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The red channel has fairly large blown patches. --99of9 (talk) 06:58, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Question I see a blob of red in the center of the flower. Is that how they look in person? Pine^(talk) 07:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to the buds? There are several, including some hidden under thistles. Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:50, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

May be; and not in the center but under the sides. This is a group of several flowers. A common plant in Asia; in my courtyard, it't fruits always attract birds, squirrels and bats besides the children. :) Jkadavoor (talk) 04:38, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I weak support this for now. At full size parts of the flowers look like there's something wrong with how the photograph handled the red color with so many bright red tendrils in one place. Pine^(talk) 07:26, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Blown highlights and awkward composition. Could do with fill light too. A photographic reflector from eBay can be had for nearly nothing, alternatively try more overcast conditions. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:52, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Shipping to Indonesia isn't cheap, however... so not nearly nothing. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:31, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you get aluminium foil, glue, and some cardboard or light plywood to glue it to? JJ Harrison (talk) 12:26, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I could theoretically get a hold of it, but I wouldn't expect it to last on an hour's motorcycle ride up a winding road. Oh well, I'll just focus on finding works of art and restoring posters and photographs. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:54, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

weak support I like the composition, it captures some of the branch system and the leaves as well as the flower. The article is very picture-heavy, but this image does a lot for it. I'm not looking at it with graphics editing software, but I do agree with comments above that it's lost some information. TehGrauniad (talk) 12:08, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:30, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]