Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Couscous

Couscous
Voting period ends on 5 Jun 2011 at 14:17:35 (UTC)
 * Reason:An illustrative, well-photographed picture which displays a standard couscous dish.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Couscous and more
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Food and drink
 * Creator:Rainer Zenz


 * Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 14:17, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose The plating itself is very well done and it looks great other than the fact that the lighting gradient on the background and the plate shadow really throws me off and distracts from the subject. I won't say the lighting looks fake, because it is a staged image after all, but it does look unreal even for a food shot. Cat-five - talk 20:14, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose I think it's all those nasty-looking vegetables that turns me off. The entire picture is all a bit too yellow and orange and wishy-washy. I know the cous-cous can't help being anything but yellow so that's okay, but the veg looks soggy, overcooked, pale, washed out and old, like they've been sat in a refrigerator for a week and then microwaved, especially those carrots and greens. The cous cous itself is a bit overcooked as well, the individual grains look to be flaky (like how rice gets if you boil it too long), and some of it is clumped together in a sticky mass when it should be all fluffy with each pearl separate of the next one. If I'd cooked this I'd be embarrassed to send this out to the restaurant. It looks, well, disgusting. Also, the left side of the pile of cous cous, near the center of the pile is too bright, you can't tell one grain from the next. I'm sure there's a technical term for it, I'm just not sure what it is, but I think it's like when there's sky and it's white. Matthewedwards : Chat  07:28, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Try the WP:FPC/Glossary, I believe you're referring to blown highlights :-)  Jujutacular  talk 13:05, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose Agree with Mattewedwards, the yellow colour puts me off. Hariya1234 (talk) 19:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose it is a good photo, but I agree with Matthewedwards's culinary assassination. TehGrauniad (talk) 10:30, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 15:35, 5 June 2011 (UTC)