Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Closeup of Lilium 'Stargazer' (the 'Stargazer lily')

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Reason: A high resolution well lit closeup of the Stargazer lily flower focussing on the stamen of the flower
Articles in which this image appears: Stamen
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers
Creator: Subhrajyoti

Support as nominator – Subhrajyoti07 (talk) 02:42, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Petals look blurry. DOF? Sca (talk) 13:47, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Yes. Though shot at f/8@55mm the focus was on the front stamen and hence blur in petals due to DOF - Subhrajyoti07 (talk) 14:56, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Good EV and I am ok with DOF, its a closeup of the stamens, petals are part of the bokeh, and bokeh's are supposed to be out of focus. But the crop (composition) is distracting, would be much better to show the base of the stamens where they attach to the rest of the flower. Also the colors are strong and look somewhat unnatural. Bammesk (talk) 14:15, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – The crop has been changed to display the base of the stamens. The saturation has been dialed down. - Subhrajyoti07 (talk) 09:59, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Much better, looking at the petals they look posterized, not a lot of detail in the highlights, can that be improved or is that how it was shot? Bammesk (talk) 15:46, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – I went through the image few times over. There are some blown out highlights at the tips of the petal, also there does seem posterization which I am not sure why happened but its definitely there. I am now having second thoughts of having this picture nominated for FP and would like to withdraw it. - Subhrajyoti07 (talk) 02:30, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Subhrajyoti07 (talk) 15:25, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]