Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Feta Cheese.jpg

Feta Cheese[edit]

Reason: Detailed and clear
Articles this image appears in: Feta
Creator: Noodle snacks

Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 02:04, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment (aplies to garlic nomination, too) I would support, but there are two fixable problems. This pitcture (and to a much lesser extent the garlic nom) is oversharpened; prominent black/white haloes are everywhere. Also, along with the garlic nom, the backgound cut-out isn't accurately done; the big block of feta and the farthest clove of garlic are particularly prominent, but cut-out issues are all over the place. Thegreenj 02:39, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually they haven't been sharpened much at all, just shot with hard light which shows up the fine surface detail more. Where are you refering to on the feta? All the missing chunks I can see should be missing. Again I'm not seeing it with the garlic, the surface on the top right particularly is lumpy. Here are some references pre any PP: (feta, garlic) Noodle snacks (talk) 03:34, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - As to the sharpening, I'm talking about the light and dark bands File:Feta Cheese crop.jpg here (taken from the middle of the original). The bands are apparent without enlargement on my screen. There are similar patterns in both images. The cut out follows the contour of the cheese fine, but I think the problem is that it doesn't fade into the background in the way a real OOF transition would. It looks unnatural to me. It's diffenent with the garlic: the OOF bulbs look blocky, almost pixelated. Not sure how to describe it better than that. None of the things I've mentioned are in either pre-PP. Thegreenj 04:42, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose My main problem with this and your garlic shot is the no-shadows-floating-in-black style - I'd much prefer seeing some shadows giving it some "support". Also there are quite a few (easily fixable) jaggies at the top of the back piece. Finally I'm not too keen on the hard lighting of this as most of the white cheese has turned grey - more light on the top of the scene would have been beneficial I feel. --Fir0002 07:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant oppose I'd have supported this shot had it been on a more typical backdrop - cheesboard? cheesecloth? - but the lengths you've gone to to provide a neutral bg have made it look surreal, as if hastily marqueed out of an entirely different shot for dramatic effect. Thanks for being honest enough to link to the original capture, but it only serves to show how un-redeemable it is as an FP candidate. mikaul^talk 12:04, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose In addition to what's been said, I think there's something wrong with the lighting in general. This is not how I remember feta. Hmm... the meta-info says flash did not fire, but it looks a bit flashed. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 01:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose bc of lighting. Does not convey feta cheese's whiteness effectively. Calliopejen1 (talk) 13:36, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. During all my trips to outer space, I never once saw feta cheese floating around. Kaldari (talk) 22:55, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Because of the composition. It should be placed on a plate or in some other neutral environment, not floating in darkness. - Mgm|^(talk) 11:59, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn --Noodle snacks (talk) 04:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]