Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Crassula ovata RTBG.jpg

Reason: EV, quality and lighting. Pictures of succulent flowers are relatively uncommon in articles and constitute useful information.
Articles this image appears in: Jade plant, Crassula
Creator: Noodle snacks

Support. Nice composition, I like the way you can see the buds and stalk layout almost within the focal plane. These sort of images would really benefit from another side on shot though. It's not all about the flower detail. :-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I usually do snap a wider shot (eg http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5586/img0620k.jpg) for ID purposes. As far as FPC goes I tend away from them as the composition ends up messy (below standard) and it is difficult to get even lighting without much less portable equipment (which usually needs 240V). It is also a fact that gardens rarely represent the natural environment of the plant, so any surrounding vegetation tends to be a bit misleading. I've been walking through a fair bit of coastal Tea-Tree scrub recently, and may be doing Cape Raoul tomorrow. I haven't been photographing the wild flowers there because horizontal hail and 45 knot winds is not conducive to quality photography. As spring comes again in particular I should be able to photograph quite a lot in a natural environment.
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Support Sophus Bie ^(talk) 01:14, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good stuff, nice light, just enough of the foliage to show its family, lovely detail. Nit-picking, I'd crop a bit from the top/right to knock it off-centre. And clean my sensor. --mikaul^talk 09:41, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Can see a splodge or two on this one. I'll give it a clone treatment tomorrow or the next day.
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