Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charleston Hot peppers

Charleston Hot peppers

Charleston Hot peppers in varying stages of maturity.

USDA original 300dpi image of above.

Edited version

The photo is used in article pepper, and illustrates it excellently. What I personally like about the image are the colors, unusual composition and informativeness. Photo is taken by Scott Bauer of the US Agricultural Research Service.

Nominate and support. - Nikola 12:25, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Great shot! Support Oppose D e nni ☯ 02:36, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Horrible artifacts and image quality. Enochlau 06:20, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose check the fullsize image. The thumbnail looks great, but the fullsize version is utter crap. --Dschwen 12:22, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I think "utter crap" might be a wee tad too strong. There are some issues with focus in the large version (which are why I'm changing my vote) but if that were fixed, I think this would be a worthy candidate. D e nni ☯ 21:19, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I currently agree with Dschwen. If somebody (possibly me when I have time) could correct the colour and contrast and lower the resolution a bit then it would be fine. It looks like it's been enlarged beyond its original res at the moment. —Vanderdecken^∫ξφ 19:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I guess it's me, but all I can see is the image being slightly fuzzy. Can someone please point out the horrible artefacts mentioned above? - Mgm|^(talk) 09:09, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The original version from the USDA is somewhat, but not much better. I keep getting errors when trying to download the advertised 300dpi variant. Lupo 09:13, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I was able to download the file. I uploaded it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charleston_Hot_peppers_usda_original.jpg 842 kb, larger than before. I'm relatively new here, so my apologies if I did something wrong. --vaeiou 15:28, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment I figured out how to do it. Needs a bit of cropping. --vaeiou 15:34, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: reluctantly agree that its too fuzzy. Great idea, nice colours, badly focussed. For a professional shot that seems odd. William M. Connolley 14:03, 26 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]
( − ) Oppose I have uploaded an edit with a white background which I think will be an improvement for whatever article the photo is in, but I still don't think its FP worthy. --Fir0002 08:01, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - too "artistic" composition to illustrate the subject. --Lysy ^(talk) 19:32, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Too artistic? How else would you illustrate the various stages of maturity in a hot pepper? --mdd4696 02:12, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see that this is not going to be featured, but to answer anyway: if I would illustrate various stages of maturity, I would do it by placing peppers one below or aside the other. Author of the image used the circle, which is way better, and one of the reasons I recommended the image. Nikola 22:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support All of these object votes kind of baffle me, but then most of them came before Fir's edit, which to my eyes addresses all the technical problems.—jiy (talk) 07:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Not promoted Broken S 02:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]