Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ernest Deane

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Aug 2015 at 19:55:11 (UTC)

Reason: Quality image depicting British RAMC officer of Irish descent in the Indian Expeditionary Force in his formal uniform.
Articles in which this image appears: Ernest Deane
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator: FunkyCanute

Support as nominator – FunkyCanute (talk) 19:55, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Although the EV is there, the technical quality is lacking. There appears to be an attempt to mitigate halftoning which has led to specking throughout the image, and there is a brown stain along the bottom. If we could scan this from a negative (like our other FPs from the era) the technical quality would be much better. Also, we can't claim PD-70 on an image for which we don't list the author's lifespan. If the photographer lived until 1950, say, this would still be in copyright in the UK until 2021. This may be PD-anon, but I'm not familiar enough with the studio to say for sure (was Chidley Studios run by a lone photographer, or were there many people, or...) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:21, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, some mitigating manipulation has been done but there is no brown stain. There are other FPs from the early 1900s that are not scans from negatives. The image is by a single person studio: I have been unable to trace them, although it is likely that the person died in 1932. FunkyCanute (talk) 14:04, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is a distinct browning or darkening towards the bottom of the image. Though it may not be a stain, there's little doubt that it's there. Although there are one or two photographic FPs from this period that are not from the negative (File:Illustrated War News, Dec. 23, 1914, page 38, left side - Darwan Sing Negi.jpg comes to mind), and are scanned from print books, the de-halftoning has been much better handled; check out the blotches on the nominated image compared to the (much less prominent) specks on the Singh image. The majority, including File:Elmer Chickering - John Philip Sousa.jpg, File:John Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet.jpg, and File:John Lorimer Worden - Mathew Brady - left photograph.jpg, are scanned from negatives or copy of negatives, which gives a much smoother image at both full size and thumbnail resolution. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:46, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:56, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]