Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Headless One Throwing his head out...again

The Headless One Throwing his head out...again

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Original – The Headless Horseman pursuing Ichabod Crane (the protagonist of Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), a subject of many painters of the 18th & 19th century.

Another painting concerning the guy (Not for voting)

Reason: This Halloween friendly perfect quality high EV picture says it all. Still doubt why the last nom failed..
Articles in which this image appears: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings (probably the latter)
Creator: John Quidor

Support as nominator Only those voters must turn up for voting who really can tolerate such a shot of head (the pumpkin) which had actually killed(?) Ichabod.. – The Herald : here I am 12:17, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:10, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Regretful oppose - the shadows are completely black, no structure whatsoever (= lost info). Can it be fixed? (PS: last nom failed because of too few votes...) --Janke | Talk 16:29, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support (again) — Tells the quintessential (American) Halloween story. Sca (talk) 17:10, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I don't know if the shadows being completely black is a problem, but it is, after all, the middle of the night. It is a moonlit scene deep in the woods. Perhaps some completely black shadows are appropriate? See Legend of Sleepy Hollow#Plot for the story. CorinneSD (talk) 21:18, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: However black the shadows are (and the artist intended them to be), a scan should show some detail. Otherwise it is certain that information has been lost in the scanning process. Ideally, you should see some faint brush-marks or structure even in the darkest parts. Edit: Look at the histogram in Photoshop, Gimp or some other editor, it is clipped at the dark end! --Janke | Talk 09:19, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Confused muuch --The Herald : here I am 10:54, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A side note: I noticed that this image is in the article on John Quidor twice, once at the top and once in the gallery. CorinneSD (talk) 23:24, 15 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

..fixed it..--The Herald : here I am 08:36, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support: per nom and echoing Sca. Fylbecatulous talk 17:33, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I don't think there's any substantial lost detail. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:56, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:John Quidor - The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]