Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Snake charmers

Snake charmers

Original - Snake charmers in Tangier, Morocco. Late nineteenth century.

Reason

It isn't often one locates a photograph of African cultural history that has the right specs for restoration. These Moroccan snake charmers are the only historic photo of snake charming in the article. Restored version of File:Snake_charmers.jpg.

Articles this image appears in

Snake_charming#History

Creator

Tancrède Dumas

• Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 08:00, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
• weak support Picture quality seems a touch low (e.g., white specs are visible in darker areas), but high EV and very cool pic. Sasata (talk) 08:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
  • That's a natural effect of the albumen print process. Durova^Charge! 08:13, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Quite an engaging and interesting photo, quality seems OK. Question though - the original looks to be sepia; why the change to B&W? I'm not sure I don't prefer the toning in the sepia version. --jjron (talk) 15:05, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Basically because mfield detected an incorrect scanner calibration on some of the LoC older scans, and this has the same color profile as the ones that were affected by that problem. Their staff confirmed his suspicion via email. Durova^Charge! 03:37, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support Good Ev, captured my attention --Muhammad(talk) 20:09, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Snake charmers2.jpg MER-C 02:47, 21 February 2009 (UTC)