Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Young Edison

Young Edison
Voting period ends on 13 Oct 2011 at 15:41:05 (UTC)
 * Reason:Image is startling (drew my attention right away), good quality for a 123-year-old photograph. Subject is notable.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Thomas Edison and 6 others
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Others
 * Creator:Unknown. This version uploaded by User:Materialscientist with edits by User:Jbarta


 * Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose I wouldn't call this a good quality picture. It's age and notability isn't significant enough for me to see past the terrible quality flaws. JFitch   (talk)  17:01, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment -- I would be interested to see the unedited (high-resolution?) scan that this particular image was derived from.JBarta (talk) 17:59, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I have no idea where they got it. The LOC has a couple of pictures from the period (like this and this), but I think the pose here is superior. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:09, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Oppose. The crop is too tight (can fix that), but the quality is not up to FP standards. My feeling is picturehistory.com got access to the archives of Brady and some other old studios. Most of them are not original photos but copies made from other photographs, mostly as sepia-colored cartes de visite. Those copies are often better than originals (some originals can be found in the Library of Congress or elsewhere), perhaps due to non-digital retouching, but they introduce "graininess" due to specific paper they used - this can be seen in their high-res scans. They are all watermarked (by a nasty method), and my watermark removal was not perfect in some photos. Materialscientist (talk) 05:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 00:53, 14 October 2011 (UTC)