Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lange car.jpg

Dorothea Lange

Portrait of Dorothea Lange in 1936 by her husband, Paul Schuster Taylor. This is technically well done and shows photographic equipment of the era. Also used in Ford Model B and Farm Security Administration.

Nominate and support edit 1. howch e ng {chat} 17:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- That cleaned up real nice. Good job. howch e ng {chat} 15:44, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
~~Weak support~~: Seems strange to be picking apart a picture that can't possibly be re-shot, but perhaps it could be improved. It looks like the image has a left-leaning tilt. The full-resolution image is far larger than the level of detail present in the negative requires; a lot of wasted pixels and a lot of wasted bandwidth to no benefit. Contrast is a bit low, and the sky is blown. (I only mention the blown sky because it almost certainly isn't blown in the original negative; unlike with digital sensors or slide film, it's nearly impossible to blow highlights with black & white negative film.) I'd love to have the original negative to scan on my own, but since that's an impossibility I might see what can be done with the original TIFF file (linked on the image page). The sky might be blown in the TIFF, but perhaps the other concerns could be addressed. -- Moondigger 17:29, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 -- Moondigger 02:48, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - per Moondigger --GoOdCoNtEnT 04:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 --Janke | Talk 07:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Why are you thinking the original has as left tilt? Just because there is no perfectly vertical line in the pic? The car is parked with two wheels off the pavement. I seems pretty obvious to me that the car is tilted, not the picture. --Dschwen 21:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Because the signpost (or what looks like a signpost) in the background (right side of pic) was tilted about 2 degrees to the left. When I rotated clockwise, the signpost was vertical but the car was still tilted, as would be expected with two wheels off the pavement. (Driver's side tires are higher in the frame than the passenger side tires, even after I rotated the image.) It's possible the signpost was off-vertical -- but even if it was, there's no way to know which direction it was off-vertical. In the end it comes down to judgement, and my edit looks more natural to my eye than the original. But it wouldn't bother me if somebody wanted to put together an alternate edit without the rotation. -- Moondigger 02:50, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - Also displays cool sneakers. Henry A-W 03:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support I dont know why but I like it. I think its the sneakers :) -Ravedave 02:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Dorothea Lange atop automobile in California.jpg Edit 1 is the clear favorite. -- Moondigger 01:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]