Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1863 Meeting of Settlers and Maoris at Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.jpg

1863 Meeting of Settlers and Maoris at Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

 * Reason:I think this is a wonderful image, showing a snapshot of life in New Zealand in 1863, particularly the all-too-rare view of Maori life at that time. A note on restoration: I've attempted to compromise in the restoration between the two possibilities of dealing with the lines between the glued-together woodblocks: I made them less visible, and edited them out as much as possible from important parts of the image such as faces, but allowed some traces of them to remain.
 * Articles this image appears in:Hawke's Bay Province, Māori, Pā
 * Creator:M. Jackson


 * Support as nominator Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 14:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Historic, ridiculously high resolution, and as you say, an interesting snapshot of life. Dr. Extreme (talk) 14:47, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, you think this is high resolution, you should've seen my working copy. It was about 8000x6000px, I shrunk it down about 25% a side. to help blend in my restoration. =) Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 14:51, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - I noticed a couple of lines, but they don't detract from the overall image. Would it be completely blasphemous to suggest a reduction in overall resolution?  The nature of the woodblock print means that it has to be viewed from some distance--as it is now, you can't really tell what it's supposed to be at full resolution.  -- jonny - m  t  15:34, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Those will be the gaps between the woodblocks I mentioned - removing or not removing them has proven controversial in the past, so I tried to compromise by leaving some traces of them, but removing them from all the important areas. As for a reduction in resolution - well, it's an A3 engraving, and probably needs to be about this size to reproduce well at its original size when printing it. However, you do have a good point, so I've set up some sub-pages to assist viewing. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 15:44, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Defer to others the degree to which woodblocks gaps should be preserved, although I err more on the side of more preservation. I do have a question though; what's with the grey smudges visible in white spaces in the foreground (especially the man's hat on the right)?  I would expect the original is just white and full-black from the ink.   - Enuja (talk) 05:54, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that's mostly the remains of text-bleedthrough from the other side of the paper, mixed with dirt, smudging from the page pressed against it, etc, etc, etc. - in the end, this was from a very old newspaper, with all the problems that causes. It was much worse before the cleanup, but I probably missed a few spots, as going for perfection is all too often a case of "that way madness lies". And, of course, the final shrinking down from 8250px wide to 6000 px may turn some small black marks into grey itself. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 07:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.  - Enuja (talk) 20:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Support. Good restoration, encyclopedic subject.  Durova Charge! 07:22, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support per Durova. Juliancolton The storm still blows...  23:39, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support diego_pmc (talk) 07:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 11:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC)