Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rainy Season in the Tropics

Rainy Season in the Tropics edit

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Original – 1866 painting by Frederic E. Church

Alt 1 - not cropped.

Reason: I discovered that the article on Church's Aurora Borealis portrayed Rainy Season in the Tropics as a painting that, alongside with Aurora, exhibited "renewed optimism" after the American Civil War. Church's paintings were known to be symbolic (sometimes blatantly so) of the historical goings-on of the period. The article was missing the image, so I inserted it and it has been stable since. This image is an extremely minimal and lossless crop of the original scan to remove the border on the top, left, and right sides. I double checked various points in the painting to make sure pixels still matched (one never knows) and the lossless crop is not altered in any other way. (Lossless crop was done with Xee; an overwritten upload, seen in the image history, was more of an experiment with a Photoshop save at level 12.) I was recently in San Francisco and had intended on visiting this painting (mostly for personal pleasure) but also to confirm colors, but didn't have time, unfortunately. The colors are similar to a fold-out reprinting in the book American Sublime (ISBN 0691096708).
Articles in which this image appears: Aurora Borealis (painting), List of works by Frederic Edwin Church, Frederic Edwin Church
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Frederic Edwin Church (painter); de Young Museum of San Francisco (scan/exhibitor); Google Art Project (compiler); DcoetzeeBot (image retriever/reconstruction); Keraunoscopia (slight crop)

Support as nominator --– Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 20:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Amazing painting. — raeky t 00:17, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mediran (t • c) 05:17, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Oppose Original, Support Alt 1. - it's a small change, but if you look closely around the edges of the image, it's clear bits of the painting were cropped out, which is unforgivable in an FP where the relatively undamaged version is readily available. While a bit of border creeps in, actual painting also appears in the removed strips, as the strips are not straight. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:59, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I tried several methods to keep every pixel of the painting, namely by straightening the strips; either by affecting only nearby pixels or affecting the entire painting. The difference was so negligible that I preferred the straight crop, which still lets a bit of border seep in somewhere at the top and right I think (it's been a while). – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 04:12, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For any thumbnailed use the crop is not noticeable, the EV is slightly reduced by removing any pixels of the actual painting in it's full resolution, so having it not cropped doesn't affect wikipedia's usage at all, since it's only a mater of a few pixels on the sides which can't be seen in the thumbnails... so I'd support the uncropped one over the cropped one too, tbh. — raeky t 14:38, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So why choose the bad version if it's not noticable at thumbnail? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:59, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support Tomer T (talk) 13:40, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support either; wonderful scene. Saffron Blaze (talk) 16:24, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support original, weak support alt I find the border distracting on the alt due to its irregular visibility and angles. Good aesthetics on the original painting. --Pine^✉ 18:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Frederic Edwin Church - Rainy Season in the Tropics - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:36, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]