Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nobel Prize in Physics, three laureates

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Original – Three Nobel laureates in physics. Front row left to right: Albert A. Michelson (1907 laureate), Albert Einstein (1921 laureate), Robert A. Millikan (1923 laureate). Back row left to right: Walter Sydney Adams, Walther Mayer, Max Farrand.
Reason
Three Nobel Prize laureates in physics photographed in 1931. In front row from left to right: Albert A. Michelson (1907 laureate), Albert Einstein (1921 laureate), Robert A. Millikan (1923 laureate). In back row from left to right: astronomer Walter Sydney Adams, mathematician Walther Mayer, historian Max Farrand.
Articles in which this image appears
Nobel Prize in Physics
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
Smithsonian Institution, Photographer: unknown, Restored by: Bammesk
Adam, I adjusted the levels and did another upload. Give it another look, thanks. Bammesk (talk) 16:13, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Fair enough. As I said above, I disagree with indiscriminately converting each and every B&W photo to grayscale. You can see some of my thoughts Here. I think distinctions can be made for notable photos, photos by notable photographers, artistic photos, strictly historic photos, versus the more ordinary B&W photos, also distinctions can be made for prints and positive transparencies (i.e. fully processed works), versus negative films (i.e. not fully processed works). I think we can make grayscale (or other tonal) judgments on a case by case basis, and vote accordingly. Bammesk (talk) 00:01, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have mixed feelings. I do still like the current version and support it, but I feel like it would have been better to present the edits, particularly the switch to grayscale, as alts. If doing so is still an option, I would suggest running the first version that was nominated (21:06, 5 October 2024) against the current version (16:10, 13 October 2024) as an alt and ping everybody to choose between them. I don't think we all saw the same thing when we voted, and therefore it would be misleading to say the current image has a consensus of support. Moonreach (talk) 19:22, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), Physicist - Restoration1.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 15:13, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]