Wikipedia:Picture peer review/PlainCity1917

PlainCity1917


I've never considered listing any of my creations for Featured picture before, and sadly I am not the creator of this one. I was doing research at the local historical society for a couple good images for the Plain City, Ohio article (which I plan on working on as soon as I am semi-finished with my most recent creation). I came across this photo at the historical society, and thought it would make a good addition to the article, since the clocktower in the background is a famous local landmark. Once I uploaded it, and added it to the article, I was looking at the image again, and personally think it is a very good picture. Great historical value, very good focus, nicely centered, great exposure, not in too bad condition (considering the original is almost a century old), etc. I was just wondering if anyone else thought is was a good picture... The photographer is unknown, but the image has been released into the public domain by the historical society...


 * Creator:Unknown


 * Nominated by: Adolphus79 (talk) 04:45, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments:

Some comments:


 * Why am I seeing green and purple in a black and white photo?
 * License should be pre-1923 if it was published before then (otherwise it may be a copyvio)
 * Spots need cloning out.
 * I'm not sure whether it was the scan or the original photo but it is overexposed (the American flag has a rather transparent feeling).
 * What is that random streak on the RHS?
 * White border on the left needs to go.

Do you have access to the film original for a rescan? This looks like a bad reproduction to me. As for FP I'm not sure whether this one has the goods, but you can contact the folks over at WikiProject Media Restoration for help re: restoring this image. MER-C 06:18, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


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