Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Oct 2024 at 20:20:05 (UTC)
- Reason
- notable photograph, high quality and resolution
- Articles in which this image appears
- Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Ansel Adams, Half Dome
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others
- Creator
- Ansel Adams
- Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 20:20, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment - I'm seeing significant banding in the sky, and JPG artefacting is pretty bad. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:26, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Crisco 1492: Yes, right. That version can't be corrected, but I found other versions, of higher resolution and less compression. Tell me what do you think. Yann (talk) 19:09, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support I think this version crosses the bar. Wild that the falling snow is visible — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:09, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose — I'm sorry, but this is another one where you can count the pixels up close. I'd support a higher-resolution copy of the same photo, though. Moonreach (talk) 17:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach: The last version is nearly 23 Mpx, which pretty big for an old picture, and bigger than most FP. Yann (talk) 17:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- It's not about the file size. It's that, when I look at the largest version at 100% scaling, I can see individual pixels. I think this was upscaled at some point. Moonreach (talk) 18:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach: I see what you mean. I downscaled it a bit. @Crisco 1492: Still OK for you? Yann (talk) 11:20, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Yann I'm not sure you downscaled it enough. The pixels in the image appear to be somewhere between 2x2 and 3x3. I'd think you'd want to reduce it to at least 50% it's original size (something like 2048x2800). --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:11, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Yann I'm not sure you downscaled it enough. The pixels in the image appear to be somewhere between 2x2 and 3x3. I'd think you'd want to reduce it to at least 50% it's original size (something like 2048x2800). --Ahecht (TALK
- @Moonreach: OK, I found another version: no banding, sharper, and more details in the dark area. Hopefully, that's the good one. Yann (talk) 21:09, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- The last comment was from Ahecht, but since you pinged me I should mention that this new version has white lines at the upper left and lower right, as though the photo were scanned slightly crooked. Moonreach (talk) 15:51, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach, Yann: In addition to being darker, the latest one also appears to have some cropping at the top compared to the previous one. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:59, 25 October 2024 (UTC)- Is https://orthoslogos.fr/photographie/pictorial-photography/ better? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 11:56, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach, Yann: In addition to being darker, the latest one also appears to have some cropping at the top compared to the previous one. --Ahecht (TALK
- The last comment was from Ahecht, but since you pinged me I should mention that this new version has white lines at the upper left and lower right, as though the photo were scanned slightly crooked. Moonreach (talk) 15:51, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- Adam is right. Updated. Thanks for finding this copy. Yann (talk) 08:54, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- There is an argument for uploading images from different sources as seperate files: If there's damage, it can help make repairing it easier, and it avoids the situation we have here, where there's two sources given, one of which is irrelevant to the one in question. I'd probably tease the variants out; I do think this is eminently featurable, but the nomination closes in two days, and it may be best to let this close and immediately renomnate, citing that it took a while to find the best version. Conditional Support on fixing up the source documentation on the file page if it helps, though. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 18:14, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think that having a dozen inferior versions of the same work of art doesn't help reusers. It would only confuse them. I mention the source for each version, in case someone wants to look into the details. I edited the sources mentioned. Yann (talk) 18:42, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Those links won't last forever. That's what Commons:Template:superseded is for. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.8% of all FPs. 17:17, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think that having a dozen inferior versions of the same work of art doesn't help reusers. It would only confuse them. I mention the source for each version, in case someone wants to look into the details. I edited the sources mentioned. Yann (talk) 18:42, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- There is an argument for uploading images from different sources as seperate files: If there's damage, it can help make repairing it easier, and it avoids the situation we have here, where there's two sources given, one of which is irrelevant to the one in question. I'd probably tease the variants out; I do think this is eminently featurable, but the nomination closes in two days, and it may be best to let this close and immediately renomnate, citing that it took a while to find the best version. Conditional Support on fixing up the source documentation on the file page if it helps, though. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 18:14, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Adam is right. Updated. Thanks for finding this copy. Yann (talk) 08:54, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach: OK, I found another version: no banding, sharper, and more details in the dark area. Hopefully, that's the good one. Yann (talk) 21:09, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach: I see what you mean. I downscaled it a bit. @Crisco 1492: Still OK for you? Yann (talk) 11:20, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Moonreach: The last version is nearly 23 Mpx, which pretty big for an old picture, and bigger than most FP. Yann (talk) 17:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support – nice find. Also support a renomination, per Adam. Bammesk (talk) 01:19, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:33, 30 October 2024 (UTC)