Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/La Esmeralda, Act III, Scene 2 set design

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Original – Set design for Act III, Scene 2 of La Esmeralda, the most ambitious, and sadly last opera by French composer Louise Bertin.

Reason: A fine example of set design, from the première of the work. Charles Cambon tends not to go full colour like Chaperon did, but his chiaroscuro work is pretty excellent.
Articles in which this image appears: La Esmeralda (opera), Charles-Antoine Cambon
FP category for this image: WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator: Charles-Antoine Cambon, lightly restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.4% of all FPs} 22:05, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Question: How can we tell if this is not too dark (compared with other images online)? Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:38, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @Charlesjsharp: The Bibliotheque Nationale de France seem to have quite good colour fidelity overall. One could possibly justify lightening it a little - there's clearly white ink used on it for highlights, so the paper is not going to be white - in order to bring out detail, but I'd say that this is very likely the colours for what it currently looks like. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.4% of all FPs} 22:44, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Alamy image may be too light I suppose. There's no provenance. Why not lightenit /alter tone/do whatever a little? Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:49, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I guess a little more contrast won't hurt. Five minutes. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.4% of all FPs} 23:38, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Right. I gave it a slight lift. Nothing too extreme, but enough to get an improvement in without overdoing it. It's meamt t be a poorly-lit garret room, after all. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.4% of all FPs} 23:52, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Wonderfully detailed and engaging sketch. Illustrates Cambon's work well. Not opposed to a slight brightening, but will leave it up to Adam to determine the final word on that (it's fine as is for mine). --jjron (talk) 07:35, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Let's hope you're right! Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:17, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 19:59, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support and Comment – there is a round spot at x,y,=(1860,2975), you removed a similar spot at (3390,3825), I am just wondering if it belongs there? Bammesk (talk) 16:29, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- You can argue either way on that type of thing, but, on the whole, it seems like a drip. I think it's probably worth removing. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.4% of all FPs} 00:15, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Charles-Antoine Cambon - La Esmeralda, Act 3, Scene 2 set.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:48, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]