Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Michael Ancher

Michael Ancher
Voting period ends on 12 Oct 2016  at 20:49:18 (UTC)
 * Reason:Ancher has some fantastic self-portraits, of course, but I think a photograph is also useful alongside them.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Michael Ancher
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
 * Creator:Unknown photographer, restored by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:49, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support "The good old days" definitely didn't include the uncomfortable-looking clothing these people had to wear...   INeverCry   21:59, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Eh. I've worn frock coats and high-collared jackets, and suits similar to those. Really aren't that bad. Can be quite warm, but then, in Skagen? Probably counts as a benefit. Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:00, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm 48 and I've never once worn a suit or tie of any kind. Even at weddings, I just wear a white dress shirt loose at the neck and some soft 2nd-hand Levis... I do have a Carhartt jacket, if that counts for anything... INeverCry   22:15, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:38, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support -- LivioAndronico (talk) 17:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 *  Comment Support - Provisional support, but you need to check/swap the files- two versions of the same image exist and the nominated version (png) isn't the one in the article (jpg)...--Godot13 (talk) 09:13, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, that's an embarassing typo to make in the nom. It's fixed now. The PNG and JPEG should be identical (barring the tiny changes from JPEG compression) Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:04, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support – Jobas (talk) 16:35, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support Wish the original photographer had been able to keep the subject sharp, but that's like wishing Isaac Newton had a pocket calculator. Daniel Case (talk) 17:37, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * What I find with a lot of these old images is that there's a lot of points of failure - the original negative might be really good - but they rarely still exist, so you're looking at prints, which can add grain, as well as the chance to lose sharpness as part of the developing process - but they're only being printed at 3x5" or so, so the added imperfections don't matter until they're scanned (another point where problems can be added). This is a good reproduction; not perfect, but not bad by any means. Now let's look at other images in commons:Category:Skagens_Museums_historiske_fotografier
 * File:Anna_Ancher_med_malerkasse_og_lærred_i_Østerby._Ca._1905.jpg is a bad original, made worse by the print. Almost no facial detail. Oh, and check out those retouched chimneys. Speaking of which...
 * File:Anna Ancher og Michael Ancher i indgangen til deres hjem på Markvej 2.jpg is ruined by bad retouching.
 * File:Familien Ancher-Brøndum i Brøndums spisesal på hotellet.jpg was either overexposed as a print, or during scanning. This killed a lot of the facial detail.
 * File:Anna Ancher med kittel, palet og pensler. 1911.jpg is an example of a problematic print, not helped by the scanning. The texture adds lots of noise over what is a pretty good original (though the blurry face isn't doing it any favours.
 * File:Helga Ancher, Havehuset i Skagens Museums have.jpg I presume the original was not plastered over with chromatic abberation. Failure of scanning.
 * File:Marie Krøyer - foto Fred. Riise.jpg Scan too low-res for FPC.
 * File:Anna Ancher i det gamle korntørringsmagasin, også kendt som Krøyers atelier.jpg is a good example of encoding failure. This image is FULL of JPEG artefacting. This was added at the stage when the scan was saved
 * File:Anna, Michael og Helga på heden.jpg is promising; File:Adjusted Anna, Michael og Helga på heden.jpg  is the last (and most easily fixed) type of failure: there's no reason to cut off Helga's feet. Bad crop.  Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:50, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 20:50, 12 October 2016 (UTC)