Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/John Herschel

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Original – John Herschel, 1867 photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron

Reason: The picture doesn't excell quality-wise, but is a highly valuable document: a picture taken in the early days of photography, which depicts one of the most important figures of the time - John Herschel, who also contributed to the beginning of photography. Shot by one of the most important photographers of the time - Julia Margaret Cameron.
Articles in which this image appears: John Herschel
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron (edit by MichaelMaggs)

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 13:20, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support — High EV photograph of an important historical figure taken by a major photographic pioneer. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 16:32, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral bordering on weak oppose. Question Would a restored version of the original photograph be better? I can't volunteer to do it due to time constraints unfortunately. I find this image to be drastically too dark, losing details. Someone tried to make a dramatically lighted photograph out of a regular studio portrait. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 18:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This is a crop of the full image and is overly contrasted at the expense of much of the original detail. This gives a better idea of what we should be working from for restoration and featuring. Cowtowner (talk) 18:41, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is suspect that this image from the Metropolitan Museum is also the best scan that is available. Cowtowner (talk) 18:46, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose as above- looking forward to seeing what Adam can do. J Milburn (talk) 17:28, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Considering the age of the photograph, if this was the best we could get, I'd support. I'll wait for Adam's version before casting a vote. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 18:17, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd Oppose the current version, but I Support the one that Adam Cuerden ^(talk) is working on. Indefatigable2 (talk) 05:24, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]