Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Indonesian rice farmer

Indonesian rice farmer

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Original – A farmer harvesting rice in Ambarawa, Central Java, just north of Kampoeng Rawa.

Reason: High technical quality, interesting contrast between the individual and the rice which must be harvested. Costume is common for rice harvests. This will probably be my last nomination from the trip to Semarang last month.
Articles in which this image appears: Rice production in Indonesia, Kampoeng Rawa
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Traditional dress, maybe?
Creator: Chris Woodrich

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:44, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose nothing especially wrong with this but I wouldn't say it's among Wikipedia's best work. --Pine^✉ 06:53, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is exactly how I imagined Mrs Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha while chasing bandits outside the city in the ricefields. Hafspajen (talk) 06:57, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'll have to look into that series; sounds interesting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:02, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is! A combination of James Bond and Agatha Christie. Hafspajen (talk) 07:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thankfully there's a second-hand bookstore here which has English-language books. Off hunting I go! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:12, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Isn't it rather soft? Coat of Many Colours (talk) 11:22, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- My kit lens is admittedly a bit soft (the panoramas you've seen are downsampled by about 15–20% for sharpness), but I believe the key parts of this image are sharp enough without downsampling. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:38, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - If you mean the parts to the back of the image, that's deliberate, to keep the focus on the individual and give a greater impression of depth. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:42, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Why you cropped it? To remove the "distracting element" on right? The people far behind give me a better feeling about the environment than this farmer, isolated. Jee 15:58, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I cropped it in rather than out because I agreed with the QI review comment that the cut-off lean-to (for lack of a better word) was distracting. Had I gone up (and kept the lean-to), then the horizon would have come in and the illusion of endless fields of rice would have been broken. I didn't want to lose that effect, so I went in. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:26, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. It's a good photo image compositionally (although if you're not going to include the horizon, I would crop it a little further and remove the line at the top), but image quality isn't stellar and it doesn't really have a lot of wow. Not quite enough to push it over the line. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:39, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I think the photo lacks something. I think if something -- people, buildings, trees, or water -- were in the distance, it would give more of an impression of the vastness of the field, not less. CorinneSD (talk) 21:50, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:45, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]