Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre

Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre

 * Reason:Famous historical image: one of the first photographic images of a figure, and a very early image from the inventor of the daguerreotype. This is a better version of an existing FP based on a new scan.
 * Articles this image appears in:The existing FP appears in Louis Daguerre, Timeline of photography technology and Boulevard du Temple.  If this passes, those uses should be replaced with the new version. (I am reluctant to remove the existing FP image in advance).
 * Creator:Louis Daguerre

I suggest that the existing FP of this view should be delisted as it is of rather low quality and does not specify a source. This image is of higher resolution, is less contrasty, retains more detail in trees and roadway, is less aggressively sharpened, and has not been cropped at the edges. I have chosen not to restore the image as the damage is part of the historical record and could not be removed without a fair amount of re-creation of obscured parts.


 * See Featured picture candidates/Boulevard du Temple.jpg for the promotion of the existing FP.

The image caption is sourced from The Photography Book, Phaidon Press, London, 1997 and from the photography section of All-Art.org. It differs from last time there has since been a later (disputed) claim that Daguerre captured an image of a person a year earlier, in 1837.


 * Support as nominator --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:16, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose The new version looks overexposed and overly contrasted which omit details.--Caspian blue 23:25, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - perhaps this would be better to Delist and Replace (at the bottom of this page) if you feel it is of higher quality. Intothewoods29 (talk) 23:38, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, will do that. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:46, 17 October 2008 (UTC)