Wiki143:Featured picture candidates/Horned melon

Horned melon

File:Kiwano 2009.jpg

Original - Although native to Africa, the Horned melon is now grown in California and New Zealand.

Reason

My first attempt at a featured picture (Fir0002 style). Constructive criticism welcomed. Original photo here.

Articles this image appears in

Horned melon

Creator

Kaldari

• Support as nominator --Kaldari (talk) 02:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
• Comment. Needs size reference. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
  • We never have size references in food pictures. None of our existing featured fruit images have size references. Why does this photo need one? Kaldari (talk) 16:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Because neither the image, nor the caption (nor the Horned melon article itself, for that matter) give me any idea how big this fruit is. Here is an effective way to do it. Spikebrennan (talk) 20:41, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
• Comment Looks just a little bit washed out. I'd tweak the levels some more. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 19:31, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
  • You're right. I've adjusted the levels to make it look less washed-out (while trying to keep the colors relatively accurate). Kaldari (talk) 19:56, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
    • Now it looks quite good. I'm not one of the photography experts, but I'll Support Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Needs focus stacking --Fir0002 01:05, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose. Yeah, lighting is good, specimin is good, but focus is pretty ordinary on the unsliced fruit. It almost looks like there is no critical focus at all. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:06, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
• Comment I think I can see what Diliff is saying about the focus, hence weak support, personally I think it's more important that there is some sort of size reference for this than other food pics because it doesn't seem to mention size in the article and I get the impression it's about the size of a lemon from the picture, but suspect it's bigger than that. I will weak support if a size reference is added to image description/article. Terri G (talk) 16:11, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose - Needs focus stacking, per Fir0002. — neuro^{(talk)(review)} 04:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 09:15, 24 March 2009 (UTC)