Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Michael Collins

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Jan 2014 at 18:48:02 (UTC)

Original – Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins addressing a crowd at Grand Parade, Cork at a "Free State Demonstration" in March 13, 1922

Reason: Rare image, very valuable historical value, relatively good technical value, and the minor faults are forgiveable to my taste against the high EV. Also Commons FP.
Articles in which this image appears: Michael Collins (Irish leader), Irish Free State, Irish Civil War, History of Cork, Grand Parade, Cork
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: Hogan, W. D

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 18:48, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
comment Do we know when this was first published?©Geni (talk) 08:48, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, 13 March 1922. Tomer T (talk) 09:00, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Not the greatest shot, but historically significant and high quality. --Երևանցի ^talk 23:13, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Image is simply too dark for me. I think it could use some adjustment on the brightness and contrast (just a bit, not much, and not to lose any EV). Great historical value. I would lean to a weak support right now, but full support on an adjusted image. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 23:03, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ehhhhhh. No one at the Commons FP discussion discussed the contrast/brightness, but when I pulled it into photoshop and brightened it a little it looks significantly better. If no one else has issues at the time of closure, the closing editor can consider my vote a full support. -- ТимофейЛееСуда. 23:06, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support as uploader and Commons FP nominator. I was going to nominate it here after waiting 7 days after adding it to many articles but I forgot. This is also Picture of the Day on the French, Korean, Russian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, as well as Commons. As for the brightness, on historical images, I take a general stance that they should be left alone for the most part, other than removing noise like scratches and folds that aren't part of the actual image. For example, I wouldn't increase the brightness on the Mona Lisa if it looked better that way, you shouldn't change history. Also, it would be changing it for many different projects that didn't have an issue with it. Ramaksoud2000 ^{(Talk to me)} 04:25, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Acceptable quality for age, quite useful for article on the movement. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:38, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Michael Collins "Free State Demonstration" March 13, 1922.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]