Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Purple leaf plum

Purple leaf plum

Original - A branch of a Purple leaf plum (Prunus cerasifera) showing the flowers, buds and leaves. These shrubs or small trees are among the first to blossom in spring

Reason: A conservative and minimalist depiction of a common subject, yet very detailed and sharp, clearly illustrating the flowers, buds and leaves of a Cherry tree.
Articles this image appears in: Prunus cerasifera
Creator: Joaquim Alves Gaspar

Support as nominator Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Could you reduce the sharpening radius? The flowers have a rather thick halo. Thegreenj 21:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It's done. But most part of the halo is due to other causes: motion blur and unsharpness. I never use a sharpening radius larger than 2 or 3. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 09:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose The insects eating away at the plant isn't very appealing, imo. crassic!^[talk] 05:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shows flowers and buds well, and even manages to include a herbivore (raises EV).Narayanese (talk) 06:41, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wish you had a source for the caption though. Narayanese (talk) 13:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify: The text These shrubs or small trees are among the first to blossom in spring is taken from the article, but that bit does not have a source in the article. Narayanese (talk) 10:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I have verified it myself, spring is coming in Portugal! Anyway, that could be a problem with the article, not the picture. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take your word for it. Narayanese (talk) 13:33, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose It's quite nice, but only two petals and part of the branch are in really sharp focus. I'd need at least one whole flower to be in really sharp focus to support this image. - Enuja (talk) 01:23, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - nice piece of detail but it could be slightly better placed in the frame so that the top shoot goes deeper into the TR corner, and more of the lower stalk is given so that there is a bit of a support line before the branch - and this would centre the main blossom better. It replaces a very very fuzzy image of a whole tree, which was actually the wrong tree for the article - it is a nice detail but a shot of the whole tree would be more useful Motmit (talk) 16:32, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 06:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]