Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Yellow dragon fruit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Feb 2019 at 05:54:18 (UTC)

Reason: good EV/quality. image is focus stacked and composited to include the same fruit in both whole and halved state
Articles in which this image appears: Hylocereus megalanthus, pitaya
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Fruits
Creator: Rhododendrites

Support as nominator – — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 05:54, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
comment Nice idea, but I'm not sure it's really sharp enough. I'll go along with other voters though. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:42, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support It seems comparable to other fruit images. It might be able to be improved with a different white balance more than sharpness, I'd say; it gets a little light in the highlights. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs} 18:42, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I find the composition somewhat less pleasing than that of File:Pitaya cross section ed2.jpg, a current FP (though it's small by today's standards) of another species in the genus. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:46, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the fruit seems rotten to me. In Laos we have dragon fruit of this kind, and when the pulp is that color, it's only good for the garbage :-( But maybe this species is different. In any case, even the one at left really looks old and unattractive -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:38, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Basile Morin: ? The translucent/darker area just indicates it's getting overripe. It's sweeter, the texture isn't as firm, and the other flavors not as pronounced, but it's not much different than a brown spot on a banana. Personally, I prefer the firmer texture, so with this one, I ate part of it and used the rest in a smoothie. Definitely not rotten... not that this matters terribly to the quality of the image -- I guess just responding to encourage you not to throw them away when they're overripe. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:31, 2 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, overripe is maybe more appropriate than rotten, however overripe fruits are not very attractive IMO. Bananas like those for example wouldn't gain my support either, even if the picture was perfectly focus stacked. Also technically the multiple shadows are a bit distracting for a studio shot, diffuse lamps would have been better, with a perfectly white background -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:50, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above commenters that the image could be improved in those ways, but there's enough EV for a weak support. MER-C 11:56, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:12, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:12, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]