Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii - Feodor Chaliapin as Mephisto.jpg

Feodor Chaliapin as Mephisto
Voting period ends on 14 May 2012 at 12:19:37 (UTC)
 * Reason:A rare and nice 1915 picture of important opera perfomer, by a notable photographer, from a classic opera. Quality is fairly high. A featured picture in Commons.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Feodor Chaliapin, Faust (opera)
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
 * Creator:Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii


 * Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 12:19, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose it's a painting not a photograph and it's scanned from a book so you see the half-toning, so it's pretty poor quality. Does not come close to our other painting FP's quality. — raeky  t  13:13, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * File's description page says otherwise. Tomer T (talk) 15:45, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Then it's a photograph that's been painted over, color photography didn't exist in 1915, and that doesn't change the fact that it's very poor quality and obviously a scan from a book. — raeky  t  15:59, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Of course it did, and this photographer is one of the pioneers of color photography. Already in 1908 he made a color photograph of Lev Tolstoy. Check the facts instead of saying inaccurate things. And I didn't say it isn't a scan from a book - but read what Dmitry Rozkhov wrote on FP nomination page: "Negatives have been lost, so this scan perfoms the best quality we can get". Tomer T (talk) 16:03, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * A scan from a book means there was something that was photographed/scanned to produce the book, so it's not inconceivable that prints exist, if it's a photograph (if it is its VERY poor quality, far poorer then contemporary images we have from even earlier), and being a scan from a book probably means it can never be a FP here. I'm sure other photographs of this person exist, and it's not inconceivable that we can get high quality scans of those. Just because this may or may not be the best example of this particular image, does not mean it's FP worthy. — raeky  t  16:15, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak support - I think the image is fairly good, and I'd support something that doesn't have as much half-toning. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:19, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Quality is awful. Clegs (engage in rational discourse) 06:32, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Prokudin-Gorski's original plates survive, so I see no reason to feature a half-toned version of an image. Chick Bowen 00:45, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 22:55, 14 May 2012 (UTC)