Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Walter Francis White

Walter Francis White

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Original – Walter Francis White, leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1929–1955, notable for going undercover (he was mixed race, but could pass as white) to investigate lynchings.

Reason: High quality, good pose, notable photographer, and a very important person: kind of the classic trifecta of a historic image featured picture. Forgive the number of nominations, just been having some anxiety issues, and find image editing relaxing, which, well, has put a lot of time onto restoration.
Articles in which this image appears: Walter Francis White (+ gallery use in Clara Sipprell, where I'd say it's probably the best-looking image)
FP category for this image: Given the same logic we use for suffragettes, I'd say Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political, since he sought political solutions to injustice.
Creator: Clara Sipprell, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 02:11, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Interesting bio. The image is very soft, but good EV and historic. It looks much better at the original's 8x10 inch size. (The 450px per inch scan rate is too high for this) Bammesk (talk) 03:30, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- True, but it's not worth downscaling, and it honestly helps a bit with the restoration if you can do it large. Plus, in the event someone does want to use it larger than advisable, this looks better than pixellation. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 04:01, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It's better to have a high scan rate. Bammesk (talk) 04:19, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Unfortunately, the focus is on his tie & lapel, not his face. Even a pro makes mistakes sometime... --Janke | Talk 12:25, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I think Janke is right Adam, isn't he? Charlesjsharp (talk) 15:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think trying to judge 1950s photography by today's standards is rather a mug's game. His face is hardly badly out of focus. If we go down that route, and ignore the pools of images we have to select from we're going to redirect all work towards only the most well-photographed people. At the moment, every single person of colour I nominated this month is not passing, and I think that shows what happens if we try to hold historic, literal museum-quality photography (this is from the Smithsonian) to modern standards. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.6% of all FPs} 17:39, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this is about 1950 - using a large-format camera (which I suppose was used for this photo), the sharpness could be on par or even better than most digital shots today (albeit with a lot less DOF), this focusing error is unfortunate. Besides, with three more supports, this will pass despite my vote... ;-) --Janke | Talk 19:15, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Soft but good EV and impossibility of taking a better one now. DreamSparrow ^Chat 21:23, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support despite issues - the good outweighs the bad on this one for me. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:35, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support EV (t · c) buidhe 22:27, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:13, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]