Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg

Mohammed Alim Khan


An excellent early color photograph taken in 1911 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Appears in Mohammed Alim Khan, Social aspects of clothing and a few other pages. This is a compressed version of Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png (not currently used in any article). The photo is apparently from the U.S. Library of Congress collections.


 * Nominate and support. - KFP 12:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose There are some strange purple dots and hairs on this image, most noticable on his chin Support I did not realize the discoloration was inherent in the medium, I thought it was a scanning glitch. Support per historical reasons. If there is a PNG version why not use that? HighInBC 13:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support In addition to historical significance, this has technical significance too. Consider - it's a full color photo from 1911, 20 years before Technicolor! It's a triple exposure on three glass plates - the dots are defects on one of these negatives. --Janke | Talk 14:23, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - A truely brillant picture! --Lewk_of_S e rthic contrib talk 15:34, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Excellent SteveHopson 15:55, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Agree with Janke. Outstanding quality for the year it was taken. Mikeo 16:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Almost 100 years old full color photo + historical significance. - Darwinek 16:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I swear we already did this one... does anyone else recall? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 19:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe you're thinking of the Commons featured pic, Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png, which is a PNG version?  howch e  ng   {chat} 21:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support. Per Janke. I think I would consider supporting this even if it wasn't historically significant. Nauticashades 17:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support. Per above --HarisM 20:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Support As above --Fir0002 11:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support Absolutely stunning, especially for its age. --  tariq abjotu  23:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Great. --jjron 03:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support Historically significant, technically significant (it was originally hi-res black-and-white, and colorized using modern techniques, I believe - sorry, I'd site my sources but I'd need to really dig), and one of a kind.--Paul 02:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No, it's a triple exposure, which could be projected in color back in 1911, but more difficult to get on paper (but possible with a dye transfer process). Today, scanning the 3 negatives and putting them into the RGB channels digitally is easy. But this is NOT colorized - the colors were captured in 1911! --Janke | Talk 07:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Promoted. --  tariq abjotu  03:05, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think this image needs any support. In case here is my support. But I don't like the guy's attitude. He's not like a king. His Manghit Empire's rise to power was only because of Nadir shah's death. No doubt he's Genghis Khan's decedent. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this photo, (actually because of this photo I learned more, thank you.). And please don't get offended. Arad 04:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support For being nearly 100 years old it's amazing quality. PPGMD 21:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)