Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Moissan
Moissan
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Jun 2013 at 00:03:20 (UTC)
- Reason
- High EV. Amazing man. Striking image. This is his Nobel Prize photo for taming fluorine "that savage beast among the elements".
- Articles in which this image appears
- Henri Moissan, Fluorine, History of fluorine
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
- Creator
- unknown photographer, image manipulation by User:Centpacrr
- Support as nominator --TCO (talk) 00:03, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- Oppose Sorry :( The image simply looks bizarre, like a standard-issue Photoshop plug-in was used. I went to the source, but the only image I can find at the source is a teeny tiny picture—surely I was missing something? Page 75 of Les Pris Nobel was larger, but not nearly the resolution this is. And then I found the answer at the Photography workshop, where Centpacrr explains what zoom program he used. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 03:41, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- No worries man. I just threw it in to learn something. Is there anyway to get an image (either donation or manipulation) that matches our technical requirements? Do you think the EV and composition is good?TCO (talk) 03:59, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- I don't have any amazing ideas for obtaining a larger version of the photograph. Maybe start checking out sources (like the book the image appears in) for credits; perhaps the photograph is privately owned, perhaps a museum is retaining it. Double check the Library of Congress; maybe others know of other image repositories that may have it. As for EV and composition, I really don't know. I found only one instance of an actual profile FP at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Robert William Thomson - Illustrated London News March 29 1873, but his image has obituary text which improved its EV, although note that the image is no longer used and a crop appears in Robert William Thomson. The only other FPs that more closely resemble a profile are File:Theodore Rooseveltnewtry.jpg and File:Helen KellerA.jpg. Otherwise, it appears the community prefers actual 3/4 to straight on shots. But so what. If you can obtain an actual high-res image, there's absolutely zero reason why it shouldn't be nominated. The man is very important in his field. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 17:27, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. I would be willing to pay for a print, just not sure how to get one. I'm sure the Nobel Prize people won't donate the high res image. (If they even have it...I'm not sure the technical details of how originals for photos or the like are maintained.) I found some 3/4 shots, but this one is much more striking and more fits with the story (his bravery in taming fluorine).TCO (talk) 20:40, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- I don't have any amazing ideas for obtaining a larger version of the photograph. Maybe start checking out sources (like the book the image appears in) for credits; perhaps the photograph is privately owned, perhaps a museum is retaining it. Double check the Library of Congress; maybe others know of other image repositories that may have it. As for EV and composition, I really don't know. I found only one instance of an actual profile FP at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Robert William Thomson - Illustrated London News March 29 1873, but his image has obituary text which improved its EV, although note that the image is no longer used and a crop appears in Robert William Thomson. The only other FPs that more closely resemble a profile are File:Theodore Rooseveltnewtry.jpg and File:Helen KellerA.jpg. Otherwise, it appears the community prefers actual 3/4 to straight on shots. But so what. If you can obtain an actual high-res image, there's absolutely zero reason why it shouldn't be nominated. The man is very important in his field. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 17:27, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 05:18, 12 June 2013 (UTC)