Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Busterkeaton.jpg

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Reason: Very high resolution and high encyclopedic value. I did what I can to adjust the levels from the LOC version, but maybe someone else wants to take a shot at it. It also need to be de-scratched and otherwise tidied up, but I think others are probably better at that than me. The LOC has one other really high-res portrait of Keaton, but this one I think does a better job of capturing his big-eyed comic look he was known for.
Proposed caption: Along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton was one of the most important comic actors of the silent era. He appeared in dozens of films, and his The General was voted the fifteenth-best film of all time by Sight and Sound readers. Entertainment Weekly also named him the seventh-greatest film director in history.
Articles this image appears in: Buster Keaton, and probably could be put in other articles as well (about 500 articles link to the article Buster Keaton).
Creator: Bain News Service

Support as nominator Calliopejen1 20:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is just the kind of image you scroll down and expect to see the FP tag in the description- but for God's sake downsample the beast, it's way too high-res for the amount of actual image data --⁪froth^t 00:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mbz1 02:21, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Suppost. Top enc. Downsampling and maybe some dust & scratch removal might be in order. --Janke | Talk 05:33, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support - Needs to be made a bit smaller, being so large doesnt really add anything else than if it was half the size --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't that why we can scale it? I think you should have a compelling reason to resize it... gren グレン 03:44, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I saw this on peer review and it just didn't take me there either. I like a good portrait to capture something of the person - to me this all just looks too posed and artificial. I also don't like the background (it almost looks like it was added in later when the portrait was probably airbrushed in the lab, which would also account for the lack of texture in much of his skin). Scratches, etc should probably be fixed up. --jjron 13:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, nice pictures of a celebrity gren グレン 03:44, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Busterkeaton.jpg MER-C 05:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]