Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Acrotis African Daisy

Acrotis African Daisy

Another variation of the Arctotis - African Daisy shown close up

I think it adds on nicely to the Acrotis article, showing a picture of one of its more vivid variations in close up. I myself took the picture, and I'm sure there are plenty amatuerish blurbs in it but I greatly appreciate any criticisms what-so-ever.

Nominate and support. - ¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 15:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Unfortunately, I seriously doubt it would pass FPC. The angle doesn't show the whole flower (unencyclopedic), and it has some quality issues, namely blurriness, shallow depth of field, and graininess. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 19:03, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Pharoah Hound. There's too much grain on the pistils/stamens and the blurriness of the foreground petals is too distracting. howch e ng {chat} 19:39, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's what I thought were the drawbacks, thanks for the comments I greatly appreciate them.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 00:17, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where did the sharp circle of graininess in the center come from? Pure photographic curiosity. Spyforthemoon 21:16, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

While sharpening the photo in photoshop for some reason the pixelation of the stigmas became overly grainy. Unfortunately I work with a standard digital camera as a opposed to a manual, and as you see above the depth of field and sharpness can leave much lacking at times. I managed to find an old affordable Cannon F1 which satisfies me way more and in the future I may simply scan images which I have taken from that. Thanks for commenting by the way.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 22:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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