Talk:North Reef Light

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 * Congratulations of your DYK!
 * Concerning the two original sections and elevations of the lighthouse, the original condition of each is very much to be preferred to the two digital enhancements which have upped the colours to nasty yellow and nasty pink, revealing the irregularites in the lighting when they were photgraphed and turning the peice of cellotape into an unidentifiable smear. The unenhanced pictures are a much more accurate image of the plans and such original primary evidence ought to be allowed to stand unaltered. Automatic colour enhancement almost never retains the quality of the original.
 * On the other hand, if you are sufficiently skilled at computer graphics and have the right, you can extract, from a tatty old original, a clear, sharp black and white image of the type that might be used in a page of text in a book. I'm defintiely not suggesting that you replace the present image with a linear black and white one, but that in some contexts, such an is very useful.

Please go with the original rather than adjusted version, and clearly label the altered image as altered. The file name itself, not just the description, should have the words "altered" or "digitally adjusted" in the file name, so that no thinks the original actually looks like that. (I'm primarily an art and architecture editor.) Amandajm (talk) 00:12, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I do not add "altered" to images which I did not alter. Both images come from the National Archives of Australia and reflect their choices. I used as description exactly what they give as description. I have no idea which of them is the original, and I chose the one which looked better to me, but not being an architect this was an aesthetic choice rather than a professional one. If you feel the other is more suitable, feel free to replace it. --Muhandes (talk) 21:42, 12 March 2011 (UTC)