Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sunflower disk florets

Sunflower disk florets

Original - The sunflower Helianthus annuus, like other members of the family Asteraceae, has a characteristic inflorescence. Each flower head which superficially looks like a large flower, is made up of several small disk florets, the structures shown in the picture above.

Reason: Good quality and EV. No other images in the articles display the details that this image displays.
Articles this image appears in: Sunflower, Asteraceae
Creator: Muhammad

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 19:10, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Few problems to fix first. There are "reflections" on all four sides that need to be cropped out (typical artefact of the focus stack). The shadows and highlights are both clipped, assuming you are using CombineZM it seems to inadvertently increase the contrast during the stack process. If you are shooting from raw reduce the contrast, stack, then fine tune it afterwards. Noodle snacks (talk) 07:54, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Unfortunately, I didn't shoot raw. Would just cropping the reflections be fine? I can't believe I didn't see those. --Muhammad(talk) 10:47, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Can you reduce the contrast in the jpgs before doing a restitch? The blown highlights and clipped shadows are pretty substantial at the moment. I'd recommend shooting RAW just for the extra dynamic range you get. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:05, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Will do and upload a restacked version soon. Withdrawing and moving this to PPR for now. --Muhammad(talk) 17:20, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn --Noodle snacks (talk) 00:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]