Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Saëns

Original - Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns in 1915.

Reason: A pretty good restoration. Admittedly, this is my first photo restoration, and I'm kind of hoping someone will step in and fix the remaining (hopefully quite minor) flaws, but I think it's pretty good.
Articles this image appears in: Camille Saint-Saëns
Creator: Bain News Service.

Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 18:02, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:02, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Regretful oppose. Superb ev. Unfortunately a mundane composition in poor focus. A snapshot of a famous composer. Strongly recommend uploading an unrestored version and cross-linking between them for review purposes, plus linking to the unrestored version in the nomination. Durova^Charge! 16:09, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's two others from that photoshoot available 1 2 - would I have been better off with those? (Also, I'll get the original sorted, but I did the work at Uni so I have to sort a couple things out to do so.) Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 16:35, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The background is distracting in all three. It's a shame because the subject deserves a featured picture. But you know the archival searching rule (only about 1 in 1000 has the stuff for FP, even with the best restoration). Durova^Charge! 20:18, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Have you been busy selectively dodging and burning? The wall behind him looks distinctly darker on the left side (his right). It could be vignetting or a shadow but it looks a bit uneven. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 19:30, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- No, that's in the original. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:19, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If you have time, I'd offer up the first alt you linked to in place of this one. It's a good, sharp, well-composed portrait, where this one is poorly framed and looks as if he moved his head during the exposure. mikaul^talk 20:24, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Ah, just checked again and it appears to have a large chunk of emulsion missing around his chin, too big to restore I think. Shame, as the other is covered in fingerprints and just isn't as good. mikaul^talk 20:30, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. As has been mentioned, just not really up to scratch as a FP. Not to say the restoration isn't welcome or appreciated. :-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:01, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regretful Oppose per Durova and Comment: I wonder what ship he's on? Spikebrennan (talk) 12:29, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 01:42, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]