Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Albert Einstein Headshot

Albert Einstein Headshot

 * Reason:High-quality portraiture of Albert Einstein, a well known historical figure. Image is a rare portrait shot of Einstein at the old age of 68.
 * Articles this image appears in:Albert Einstein
 * Creator:Photograph by Oren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J (File:Albert Einstein 1947.jpg)). Original image cleaned/leveled by User:Jaakobou.


 * Support as nominator -- Jaakobou Chalk Talk  10:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. His face seems a bit 'flat' and lacking in contrast, and there is a rather unfortunate line down his nose - a scan artifact? Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 11:50, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Terribly sorry but oppose fro the moment. The Library of Congress original isn't terrific to start with, but this image is upsampled from the original tiff, which makes it a little fuzzier still. I would first of all keep the image at its original size, deal with the (scanning?) artifacts on the right hand side of the portrait, and then fiddle with the histogram a bit to increase the contrast. Perhaps do just a leetle sharpening around the eyes (faded to, say, 20% or so), and leave the image otherwise as is. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 14:43, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment On quick inspection, there seems to be a significant amount of artifacting on the nose and mustache of the original. ~  ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 06:39, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 07:54, 7 April 2009 (UTC)