Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/LBJ meets with Ferdinand Marcos in Manila 1966-10-23

LBJ meets with Ferdinand Marcos in Manila 1966-10-23
Voting period ends on 16 Jan 2014  at 05:54:23 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality and historically significant photograph. The photo is eerily beautiful. It shows a rare meeting between a President of the United States with the President of the Philippines in the Malacañang Palace. Can I request that this be featured on the People Power anniversary on February 25.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Imelda Marcos, Philippines–United States relations
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/History
 * Creator: White House Photograph Office


 * Support as nominator --Theparties (talk) 05:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Is this really the best quality of this photo we can find? I'm not going to oppose it because it's a great shot, but it's a bit milky and noisy, and I suspect the original wasn't. nagualdesign (talk) 15:51, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Response - I didn't upload this so I don't know how to get the original. there's one from PBS but I guess it's the same thing.--Theparties (talk) 21:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking. I had a look too. Half an hour later I'd found nothing. nagualdesign (talk) 22:48, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment, composition is excellent. The human interest and interaction/non interaction between the three parties is great. But the background, in particular, is so grainy that it looks as if noise has been deliberately added. It is alternately speckled light and dark. Amandajm (talk) 05:39, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Response I don't know how to make the noise disappear but it probably was there when the photo got developed?--Theparties (talk) 14:22, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The speckled background is likely due to unsharp masking, IMO. The grain is much less affected in areas of continuous tone. Which begs the question, is there a pre-digital/unprocessed copy available? nagualdesign (talk) 01:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment LOC has this, which is obviously from the same meeting. Not sure what the copyright status of this image is. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Response I just nominated that above. That's a different image. This nomination was about a state visit in Manila while the other one was held in Washington.--Theparties (talk) 14:22, 9 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose — Dark, grainy, no topical focus and not very good focus on faces. Plus picture on opposite wall appears to rest on LBJ's head. Sca (talk) 15:56, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Response I think it's pretty clear that Imelda is the focus of this picture and the dark and grainy look doesn't subrat anything from that. The other two guys are the background compared to her position. The portrait-on-head is not much of a problem since a person looking at it would first see the center.--Theparties (talk) 17:10, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 09:49, 16 January 2014 (UTC)