Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lugano in 1909

Lugano in 1909
View of Lugano in 1909 is an early colour photograph by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, taken between 1905 and 1915, most likely in 1909. The image is featured in the article Lugano.

Public domain from the Library of Congress website. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/prokc.20214 for more information and the raw image. - Ghirlandajo 17:26, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Nominate and support. It's a shame that no Prokudin-Gorskii images have been promoted to featured pictures as yet. I previously nominated Black Sea in 1915 and most people supported it, but for some reason it was not promoted. - Ghirlandajo 17:26, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Whow: Support -- Chris 73 Talk 00:00, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Entirely worthy for the color fidelity of its time. Denni &#9775; 00:57, 2005 Feb 4 (UTC)
 * Support. Enochlau 01:36, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Ground 15:29, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. This illustrates early colour photography nicely, whilst still having some colour banding problems visible in the clouds. - Solipsist 11:03, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Compared to http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/prokc/20200/20214v.jpg it has been made too small, and sharpened too much. ed g2s  &bull;  talk  15:35, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose current nominee. Support original. Performing post processing on a 1915 Prokudin-Gorskii colour photograph is like color correcting Rembrandt painting. You just do not do that. It's a pity too that the borders showing the techniques used to create the color photograph have been cropped off. Plus I agree with edg2s that the post processed one has been oversharpened.Janderk 13:05, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That's tricky. I think I might also prefer the version Ed g2s found, even though its a bit washed out, but mainly because the colour overprint adds extra interest. On the other hand, I don't have much problem with post processing the colours and contrast in an image like this (sharpening is perhaps not so good). Many photographers do a lot of post processing whilst printing in the darkroom. I presume most original Prokudin-Gorskii prints would have faded to nothing by now, so any modern prints from the glass plates involves interpretation. Even a Rembrandt, isn't trivial - pigments fade, varnishes yellow. There was a good bit of controversy of the Tate's restoration of Holbein's The Ambassadors, which became dramatically brighter and more vivid. -- Solipsist 16:33, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It is argued that Old Masters, especially in the New World museums, have little resemblance to the originals due to excessive overbrightening. Xenia 07:36, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Neutralitytalk 05:14, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. No oversharp at all. The ancient original is unwieldy and ghastly. Xenia 07:36, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Warofdreams 14:53, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. If this were only appearing in an article on Prokudin-Gorskii then I don't think it would be appropriate in touched-up form, but as a photo for Lugano, I think it's beautiful and evocative. -- Oarih 06:08, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Promoted +10/-2/0 BrokenSegue 02:12, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC), sorry for the delay