Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Al Gore

Hi res. Can a hearty dose of noise reduction make it FP?

Comments:

I'm not sure, but I think not. It lacks something of the drama and dynamism of existing political people FPs (for example this one and this one) and I'm sure we've had noms of "official portrait" style shots fail in the past, partly for that reason. The noise is mostly film grain, if I'm not mistaken, which means the best you could do is sharpen up the grains. As such, it's never going to approach the perceived 100% view quality of those other two if we attempt to remove the grain. I hate this about digital media, when a good quality shot like this, intended for print, must be degraded (ie scanned) in order to be shared and compared. It's not a level playing field at all, one that ultimately won't lift this above the crowd, I'm afraid. --mikaul^talk 13:46, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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