File talk:Spork Plus.jpg

Inadequacy of this photo

I personally have two of these (one is sort of a pea-green color, the other is yellow). I am greatly disappointed in this photo, for the following reasons:

This is not just a spork, it is a sporf¹, having also a serrated cutting edge along one tine, making it a knife-spork. The picture simply does not make this serrated edge adequately apparent, especially if the picture is being shown at a small size.
The focus is completely misplaced. One realizes that in a close up of a small item, some places will be more focused at full resolution than others. But to have maximum sharpness in the middle, the part that no one cares about, is both inexplicable and unforgivable.
This picture fails to show the exciting colors in which this product is manufactured.

The solution to all these issues is obvious.

The photographer needs to secure a lighter colored version of the product; I recommend mustard yellow, but the canary would be fine.
The serration should be positioned more prominently, in the top half of the picture (though admitedly, most of the problem with the hidden serration will be fixed with the lighter color).

Just taking these two steps should take care of everything.

Glad I could help, and I look forward to seeing the new version of this appear here soon. 98.82.22.169 (talk) 02:11, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

¹ For the record, I detest "sporf", which, while technically is perhaps a portmanteau, nonetheless fails the test of pormanteauity, which is of course obviousness; the reader just knows what has been combined.

On the one-year anniversary of the comment above, I'd like to point out that the previous commenter's logic was insufficiently compelling to resolve the problems that were raised. Perhaps acquiring even a low-quality picture with the desired characteristics (such as might be obtained from a camera phone, devices far more common than the deceptively simple sporf) would have been more productive than pointing out possible actions others could take. The tantalizing admission that the previous commenter was in possession of no less than two of these miraculous implements (whereas I am in possession of none) makes the lack of a more attractive photographical representation even more galling. 82.95.254.249 (talk) 00:04, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]