Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ambersweet oranges.jpg

Reason: Great EV, excellent image with good depth of field, illustrating the subject well, and used in a variety of articles. Currently Featured on Commons.
Articles this image appears in: Vitamin C, Orange (colour), Citrus, Sphere packing, Orange (fruit)
Creator: Thoken
Previous nomination: April 2005

Support as nominator --Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} _{Ici pour humor} 14:08, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Previous nomination. Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} _{Ici pour humor} 14:13, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unbalanced composition, cut off. Very easy to stage & shoot a better pic. --Janke | Talk 16:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Agree with Janke, and also the image lacks a clear focal point. Is it trying to be an encyclopedic display of an orange's interior, or is it a beautiful still life? I don't think it can be both; and it comes off looking unnatural despite its good quality. Fletcher (talk) 20:46, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unnatural stage, and composition, and little bit dark.--Caspian blue 23:16, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Regretful oppose I don't mind the still-life composition except that it's cut off at the right. ~~Move the camera a little and I'd support, but it's probably too late for these oranges.~~ Oh, wait, it's by the USDA. Good enough for government work, but not for us...--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 01:21, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LOL we have higher standards than one of the world's largest governments? Cool ;) Intothewoods29 (talk) 02:31, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Take that, Agricultural Research Service! My faith in the United States government is severely shaken. I will have to revise my opinion of the United States Department of Agriculture. Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} _{Ici pour humor} 07:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this was nominated before and failed. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-10-24 17:15Z
- Ahh, that's why I remember it - I nominated it 3 1/2 years ago here. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-10-24 17:16Z
  - Indeed. I did notify editors at the top of the nomination. Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} _{Ici pour humor} 18:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - Wow, I closed my own nomination... ahhh, those were the days! ;) — BRIAN0918 • 2008-10-24 20:26Z

Yeah, it's amazing how things change. Doubt you'd get away with that now, not unless it were a WP:SNOW case. (Which it just might be.) Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 20:45, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral - personally, I think it's a good image, and I don't really get the nitpicking. But I also don't really see the point of taking third party images and labelling them "featured" anyway. Stevage 00:25, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The nit picking about "cut off" subjects is not warrented for Orange (fruit), Citrus or Orange (Colour) as there are a number of full oranges in the picture, however an image of one or two oranges would be more detailed and hence more useful. For sphere packing the composition is cut off and it isn't made clear what sort of sphere packing this is (probably closest to hexagonal close-packed), and more spheres would make the arrangement clearer. Noodle snacks (talk) 04:41, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:54, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]