Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Onion growing shoots

Onion growing shoots

Original - An onion, Allium cepa growing shoots.

Alternative 1 An onion growing shoots. Notice the depression in the bulb, caused by emptiness resulting from the respiration of glucose stored which releases energy for the growth process.

Reason

In my opinion, great encyclopedic value and seems to meet all the criteria

Articles this image appears in

Onion

Creator

Muhammad

• Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 19:41, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose less than perfect focus on both images, particularly the first. Mediocre composition particularly the second. --Leivick (talk) 20:08, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
• Comment - I could swear that this's already been nominated, but I can't for the life of my find it. I'll keep looking... :) Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

• Never mind, it was a PPR: Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Onion Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:19, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose Soft; perhaps trying focusing again and, if possible, use the sharpest aperture and focal length combination that works for your composition. Are you using the kit lens that came with the EOS 400D? Perhaps 35mm at f/4.5; see test results here. Also, unappealing, harsh shadows cast by the light source. Perhaps you could try bouncing the flash or light source off a ceiling and/or diffuse it. Check out the look of current FPs of similar subjects and composition, such as ones by User:Fir0002 like this Tokugawapants (talk) 21:08, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Yes I am using the kit lens. The onion is currently n/a so thanks for the tips, I will try them on something else. Muhammad(talk) 16:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose F11 would be more appropriate, its soft all over. Noodle snacks (talk) 23:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 08:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)