Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Cardiss Collins - Restoration.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People#Portrait
•  Info created by Adam Cuerden - uploaded by Adam Cuerden - nominated by Daniel Case -- Daniel Case (talk) 04:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Daniel Case (talk) 04:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Info Another of Adam's restorations of portraits for Black History Month. I actually had the pleasure of meeting, albeit briefly, Rep. Collins once. Daniel Case (talk) 04:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment - The source appears to be too bright, but Adam, is it possible that you may have darkened the restoration a bit too much? The file does look good at full size, but I feel like the left (viewer's right) side of the congresswoman's face is darker than optimal. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:02, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
  • I think it's about right for a dark-skinned woman; I think that' s down to the lighting used at the time. This is a fairly recognisble 1970s photographic type, though where I've gotten used to it from, I'm not sure, and the side in shadow getting very dark seems common to black and white photography of darker skinned people unless steps are taken to avoid it. See, for example, File:George Washington Carver by Frances Benjamin Johnston.jpg, File:Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.jpg, File:Robert Smalls - Brady-Handy.jpg Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:02, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

  If you feel sure you're being faithful to the original photograph, I'll defer to your judgment. No sense in penalizing you for what I would consider a shortcoming of a historic photo.  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:02, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

  I've tried to be faithful, although there's always judgement calls when you don't have the original - preferably the original person as well - in front of you. The trouble is that there's not really one unambiguously best solution here. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:07, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

•  Support INeverCry 15:13, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:21, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose There's nothing particularly interesting about this portrait for me (no wow). She seems to be wearing pretty strong glasses, which makes it look like there is a large, rectangular section cut out of her head between her right brow and cheek. --El Grafo (talk) 10:21, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per El Grafo. --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 14:45, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per El Grafo. --Karelj (talk) 22:09, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 4 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Laitche (talk) 08:00, 3 March 2016 (UTC)