Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Navajo man in ceremonial dress

Navajo man in ceremonial dress

 * Reason:A well composed image of Navajo ceremonial attire from a century ago. Good textures, contrast, and depth of field.  Encyclopedic historic and cultural value.  Restored version of Image:Navajo-Curtis.jpg rotated and cropped, with artifacts removed and some depigmentation replaced.
 * Articles this image appears in:Navajo people
 * Creator:Edward S. Curtis


 * Support as nominator Durova Charge! 17:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose its too dark to decide other picture quality issues.D-rew (talk) 17:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose unless it gets brightened up a tad. And with that, it's awesome. Support. Dr. Extreme (talk) 18:45, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * All right, levels adjusted a bit. Hit refresh if you don't see the change.  Durova Charge! 19:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Very nice photo, adds value. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 19:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment The brightening has made the posterization in the background much worse, and in my view was unnecessary.--ragesoss (talk) 00:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support--Mike Spenard (talk) 06:07, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak support It's a bit posed-looking, but photographs of that time had to be or they'd be blurred. I was uncertain about this for a while, but finally decided that the encyclopedic value of the costume had to win out. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 15:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 05:28, 7 March 2008 (UTC)