Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Feb 2024 at 23:36:25 (UTC)

Reason: A little formal, but high quality. Appears to be signed by Shackleton (comparing it to known signatures)
Articles in which this image appears: Ernest Shackleton + several others
FP category for this image: Not seeing anything more specific than Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator: George Charles Beresford; restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 23:36, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 02:45, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ – Tretiak20 (talk) 04:05, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Struck vote as user doesn't has the necessary number of edits (only 7 of the required 100). Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:19, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think the color balance is wrong. Yann (talk) 18:18, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How so? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 20:32, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Yann: By which I mean, too light, too dark, needs adjustment in the lower end to bring out detail, too saturated? There's a lot of possibilities. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 05:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It looks a bit yellow to me. Yann (talk) 10:56, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Presuming the original is accurate - and it's a museum scan - I've readjusted accordingly, allowing for the slight levels adjustment as the original is quite dark in the lighter areas.

This revealed a ton of hidden damage, so.... @Yann, Bammesk, Charlesjsharp, and Hamid Hassani: New version with additional restoration up. I try not to do this, but it's also true some things only show when you've stepped back a while. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 12:32, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Old paper often turns yellow. Yes better, so Support – Yann (talk) 12:36, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I try not to over-speculate in the absence of evidence in that line. But I do know for a fact that different copies of photos can have wildly different exposures, and often do, and that sepia images can also vary a lot in tone between copies of the same photo (both of these were very hard to precisely reproduce between copies, as they involved some very precise timing. For an example of how much things can vary, while they're not exactly the same image, compare the tones of [1] and [2], or the exposure of [3] and [4]), so I do think a little tweaking of a widely reproduced image isn't so bad. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 12:53, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:40, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 17:58, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Ernest Shackleton before 1909.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:20, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]