Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Hitler salute

Hitler salute
large photo, historically relevant. However, not nominated directly to FP because it could probably benefit from downsampling and cleanup.


 * Nominated by: Spikebrennan (talk) 17:53, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

  Since I wrote all of that offline, it's grown on me again. I dunno, I've given it a quick clean and the crop I was on about and a bit of tonal tweaking (edit 1) – nothing I wouldn't do in the darkroom, hopefully enough redistribute a little emphasis back onto the little fella standing on a box :o) – and I'm still not sure.. --mikaultalk 23:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comments:
 * If it was all about great pictures, there wouldn't be an issue here cos this one really grabs you. First impressions are great: that lovely perspective and then the guy (Göring?) in the middle with the trilbee, dead center, perfectly focussed and looking straight into the lens. If that was Hitler instead of the OOF figure to the left of him, this would likely be one of the great iconic images of the 20th century.. it has plenty of other merits; you could try pushing the rally side of it, but I have a feeling the FPC crowd will latch onto the poorly rendered leader figure and incline to opposition straight away. The filename doesn't help.. compositionally a 10% crop from the bottom would really firm it up, it depends how much value you place on the foreground detail. That's in in a nutshell: on a purely visual level it could work really well, but in terms of historical value there are several levels of disappointment.
 * Thanks for the edit and the comments. Goring is the guy with the medals in the left foreground standing below Adolf. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spikebrennan (talk • contribs) 15:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

