Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Difluroethane droplets

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[edit] Difluoroethane droplets

Difluoroethane droplets boiling away on brushed aluminum.
Difluoroethane droplets boiling away on brushed aluminum.

Stumbled across this on Flickr while looking for something else, created by user AMagill there while he was cleaning his computer case. Apart from the encyclopedic value of demonstrating how difluoroethane works to clean things up, I was just struck by so many things aesthetically: the contrasts between the splash of red and the gray/silver background, the soft gradient of the background, the sharp contrast lines of the more circular fluid drops and its general abstract beauty.

I checked the relevant articles (difluoroethane and Dust-Off) and knew they needed this. So I downloaded the largest version, cropped out some of the less successful elements, heightened the contrast and red color a bit. I figured it ought to have a chance at FP status. The original is here, with notes from the photographer, if anyone wants to see if they can do better with it.

  • Nominate and support. - Daniel Case 18:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

  • A few things: copyright status, it says some rights reserved on the origenal page, what are those exactly. Also, The crop is nice but it hurts the overall composition. It is hard for me to get context and understanding from the picture. At the full size, artifacts are also pretty bad and the second largest version didn't have them. And, correct me if i'm wrong, the picture is reproduceable and so maybe a better shot could be taken. personaly I doubt it would pass. -Fcb981 23:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
It's CC-BY-2.0 ... in other words, a free image that we're allowed and encouraged to use (I don't troll any other Flickr photostreams besides that and CC-BY-SA-2.0 ... you can put that up here right away). Replaceability is not the issue here.

I took the largest version, artifacts and all, because I knew I was going to have to crop it and only the cropped version would be more than 1000px wide. (Besides, aren't we supposed to work with the biggest versions possible?). Regardless of size, the droplets at the outer edge of the picture are out of focus and blurred (and since they're smaller, it's a distracting mess as well). I couldn't keep them and have a picture worth nominating. Daniel Case 02:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

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