Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:FDR 1944 Color Portrait.jpg
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File:FDR 1944 Color Portrait.jpg, not featured[edit]
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People/Portrait
Info created by Leon A. Perskie - uploaded by Wow - nominated by WClarke -- wclarke 18:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
Support This is a beautiful color reversal photograph (Kodachrome I think) taken before color was widely adopted, and certainly is historically significant. The photograph was taken less than a year before the death FDR, and IMO is one of the most striking and emotional presidential portraits ever taken. -- wclarke 18:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
Weak support An iconic image that really helps express something of Roosevelt's character. But there is quite a lot of what looks like JPEG artefacting in some of the darker areas, unless I'm misinterpreting it; is there perhaps a less heavily compressed version available? Cmao20 (talk) 23:34, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
- This is a photo made from film. Film doesn't have jpeg artifacts, that came with the invention of digital cameras. You can't judge early color film photos by the same standards as modern digital photos. It's a miracle the colors are as good as they are here. --Cart (talk) 00:10, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I do understand that, but of course a digitisation of it must have been produced at some stage, and it looked to me that at this stage some JPEG artefacts were introduced. Certainly the texture of the shadowy areas looks like JPEG artefacting more than it does film grain. Cmao20 (talk) 08:05, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support Iconic --Gnosis (talk) 06:02, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
Oppose See File:FDR-1944-Campaign-Portrait.jpg which appears much closer to the version on Flickr. The one here has been lightened (background is dark brown rather than black) and cleaned up a bit. The file on Flickr is very highly compressed (837KB), and the processing here has brought out the JPG artefacts. -- Colin (talk) 12:39, 1 December 2019 (UTC)- Oppose I agree with the above: there are strong artifacts in the shadows, and as they are clearly digital in nature they must have been introduced after scanning and are thus not a problem of the original photograph. Not a good digital representation of the analog original. --El Grafo (talk) 19:16, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose Compression artifacts (1,69 MB is quite small for about 6 MPx). --PantheraLeo1359531 (talk) 12:33, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose per others. Daniel Case (talk) 04:23, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 3 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 02:18, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
