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Siberian Iris

  •  Info Created, uploaded, and nominated by Ram-Man. 03:39, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support This image was modified from the original to remove the man-made background and add a real background of the leaves of same species. This is somewhat analogous to focus-bracketing. See the original nomination where it failed to reach a quorum of votes. -- Ram-Man 03:39, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm not sure that substitution of a background from a completely different scene is analoguous to focus-bracketing. They're completely different concepts! Substituion misrepresents the reality of the scene (I'm not judging this, just saying), whereas focus bracketing does not. Diliff 14:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yes, I understand that the scene is different compared to focus bracketing, but it is similar in how the areas of focus are specifically chosen to get an effect that is impossible to achieve through the lens only. Focus bracketing misrepresents the scene (to a lesser extent) as well. This scene is very similar to what it would look like if focus bracketing would have actually been used on an iris connected to its host plant. It's very hard to get an iris shot without the leaves in the background. The failure of my other nominations to succeed is the reason that I created this image, because no one liked the leaves in the background. Always complaining about being too distracting. -- Ram-Man 16:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC) [reply]
  •  Oppose Nice image, but not FP. JukoFF 15:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yeah, I get that a lot. However, could you provide a rationale? High quality images of various species are extremely common FP candidates. For iris flowers, it is difficult to achieve proper focus because it requires high DoF which then renders the background very distracting. This image has both high flower DoF (f/11) and a pleasing background. It is better than most fake images that we feature in that the background is actually the same plant rather than a plain background (like the all white version). -- Ram-Man 16:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose the composition doesn't convince me. I have severe difficulties understanding how the flower actually looks like. It might be better to take the picture from a different angle. --AngMoKio 20:51, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Is that purple lining around the flower on the left an artefact from tweaking the background? It is quite conspicuous, even at low magnification. Lycaon 21:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - lovely flower and I like the original. Unfortunately the masking has not been kind to the subject. Where there are out-of-focus petals that originally had soft edges that looked natural there is now a cut-out effect. Much of the RHS, and other parts, of the flower now have unnatural hard edges.... next to soft petals - gives a sort of green-screen effect Peripitus 05:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • I withdraw my nomination Thanks for the decisive result! -- Ram-Man 11:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn  - not featured  --MichaelMaggs 17:23, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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