Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg
Voting period ends on 30 Jun 2014  at 13:30:31 (UTC)
 * Reason:For the time (c. 1863), not a bad portrait, and it has character to it. Confederate officers are underrepresented in photography - probably a mixture of Sherman burning down a lot of Southern cities, combined with the economic crisis of Reconstruction afterwards, and because Mathew Brady, one of the most notable photographers of the ACW, was a Yankee - and, indeed, so far as I can tell from checking what should be the relevant category, we have never featured a single Confederate soldier. As such, I think it fills a gap well.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Braxton Bragg + many others.
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Military
 * Creator:Unknown, restoration by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:30, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Also, yes, it's definitely sepia-toned. I used the colour guide that was in the original scan. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support — A face full of character reflecting Bragg's reputation as a feisty curmudgeon. Agree with nominator regarding scarcity of Confederate photos. Sca (talk) 14:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Reasonable quality considering the age. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - I would say this is on the lower end of FA in general as I have seen sharper images but that is mostly an issue of the photographer from that period and the equipment they had to use, experience etc. I think this clearly passes though.--Mark Miller (talk) 04:44, 21 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Support - Quite a character, this man, yes. I don't think that we can put the same high level of technical requirements on an old photo. Though it would have made me nervous to meet him at night in some abandoned place, if he was my enemy. Hafspajen (talk) 21:21, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Nice restoration. --Godot13 (talk) 23:05, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Dislike the "restoration" Support, but I would have preferred the original sepia.Coat of Many Colours (talk) 02:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * What about it, if I might ask? If you mean the colours, note the original has a colour bar with it, which is what I used to get the colours. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:03, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's true and I changed my vote. I just have a weakness for sepia :) Certainly a striking image.Coat of Many Colours (talk) 02:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. J Milburn (talk) 21:31, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:31, 30 June 2014 (UTC)