Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball

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Original – Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball, a portrait of the children of Charles Williams-Wynn by William Etty, first exhibited in 1835

Reason: High resolution, high quality reproduction of a work which is the direct subject of a lengthy Wikipedia article. Obvious EV in illustrating Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball, and high EV on William Etty (the artist) and Charlotte Williams-Wynn (one of the two subjects).
Articles in which this image appears: Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball, William Etty, Charlotte Williams-Wynn (diarist)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Uploaded by PatHadley, original work by William Etty

Support as nominator – – iridescent 11:16, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - PatHadley, highlights are blown in the whites. Is there a chance we can get a version that's gone through less digital manipulation? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:58, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at print reproductions—including the closeups of picture detail in Art & Controversy—the highlights in the whites appear the same, so it's possible that this is an issue with the actual painting or the photography rather than with digital manipulation. (Or, since this is the "official" York Art Gallery version, it's equally possible that this file is the source of all modern prints.) – iridescent 00:08, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pat's working with the York gallery right now through GLAM (see this for further details) so I'm assuming that he's the photographer in this case, or at the very least has access to the original files (TIF or Raw, I don't know what they're shooting). If it is an issue with the photography itself, hopefully it can be handled. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:22, 13 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This version (and the one printed in Art and Controversy) was created by the Public Catalogue Foundation a few years back for BBC YourPaintings. The digital team here have just resnapped it so we will have .NEF/.TIFF files for the new photography. I should be able to get access to these soon. Would it be better if I gave a link to a dropbox or similar with these files so you guys can do any reworking? PatHadley (talk) 10:54, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, would it be better if I withdrew this? Given the probability that Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball will be TFA on or near 1 August, this presumably wouldn't run as TFP for some time regardless, to avoid Etty-overload on the main page. – iridescent 11:17, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you could withdraw it if you wanted. Pat, I think I'd trust you and the people at York more than myself in this instance. You have access to the painting, so you can tell what it looks like under different lighting conditions. Approximations end up off way too often. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, can someone who understands FPC close this (not sure if I just hat it or if it needs to be formally closed somewhere). Given that there are four articles on William Etty currently in the DYK queue, and that there are six more of these articles already lined up for their turn at FAC, it's not like the main page is going to suffering from an Etty shortage for a while. – iridescent 16:52, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted -- — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:25, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]