Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Ninth Wave2

The Ninth Wave
Voting period ends on 1 Jul 2013 at 23:34:09 (UTC)
 * Reason:The painting is a one of the most prominent marine paintings of all time. Note that it was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons on August 18, 2010 and is a FP on Tamil WP.
 * Articles in which this image appears:The Ninth Wave, Ivan Aivazovsky
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Ivan Aivazovsky
 * Support as nominator -- Ե րևանցի talk  23:34, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose [original] Per my talk page comments from a short while ago. In brief: over-saturated. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 00:47, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I added an edit using the museum photographs as a guideline. I cannot guarantee my colors are correct (I could not gauge the yellows properly), unfortunately, as I've never seen the painting, but looking at an Aivazovsky gallery, I don't see anything extremely saturated as the original image is. Also, it's pretty well known that sometimes my uploads have issues when the original image doesn't have an embedded color profile, so if my edit (sRGB) looks absolutely bizarre, let me know. I desaturated reds, yellows, cyans. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 01:36, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I think you've gone substantially too far, unfortunately. Compare http://www.artsstudio.com/reproductions/paintings/aiv_9thwave-000-0.jpg - probably the site I'd trust most on the colours. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:53, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree completely and opposed below. I uploaded the image with reservations. I despise the original image, it looks like it went through a digital fire and any information is irrecoverable. I was trying to make more of a point and should've just left my original statement stand. However, I'm crossing my fingers that these gorgeous paintings get scanned properly someday. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 18:08, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Support edited version. I agree with the above statements regarding the color. The edited version is more aligned with the actual painting. Proudbolsahye (talk) 09:39, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose Both The original is too saturated, and I think the colour is out of wack on the edit too. It is too purple for a start. JJ Harrison (talk) 09:47, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose both The original is VASTLY over saturated, and any attempt to "fix" it will never result in an accurate color rendition. This is a picture of the actual painting, as you can see nether of these pictures comes close to the correct colors. — raeky  t  15:56, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose both Even my own :) I agree completely with JJ Harrison and Raeky. I tried my best but I also don't like the original scan at all, the image just seemed destroyed, either by the over saturation or over contrast or maybe jpg artifacting and graininess, and I did upload the image not with a smile on my face but wondering if I should have even been doing that at all. This painting (actually most of Aivazovsky's paintings) need an extremely high-resolution professional treatment. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 18:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose both per above. -- WingtipvorteX  PTT   ∅  18:33, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose both per above -- mcshadypl T C  02:28, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 23:37, 1 July 2013 (UTC)