Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Lugano prokudin.jpg

Delist: Lugano edit

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One of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii's very early colour photos.

Alt 2 - see text

Reason: The image that was promoted, [1], shows that with careful colour balancing to match the original filters, this image can be extremely gorgeous. It was overwritten with a vastly inferior copy, however, so it's no wonder it's left articles again. The three original plates are available, and it may well interest someone to attempt to redo the work at high-quality, but this... is not that. I don't think Gorski used the exact modern Cyan-yellow-magenta colours - or, if he did, they need a little tweaking as to intensity - and it shows. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.2% of all FPs} 01:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Articles this image appears in: none.
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lugano in 1909
Nominator: Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.2% of all FPs}

Delist — Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.2% of all FPs} 01:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Why delist, when it is easy to fix - Alt 2 is just an example, can be done even better - if someone (hint, hint) spends a little more than my 45 seconds at the RGB level sliders... --Janke | Talk 07:13, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delist — Not that easy to fix, I don't think? As well as the colour balance issues, there's substantial colour banding (made more obvious in the alt) and lots of damage; I think it would need to go back to the original plates. I don't think that, in this state, it's one of Prokudin-Gorsky's best - compare his photo of the Monastery of St Nil for example. TSP (talk) 12:33, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, where would we put it? Lugano? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.3% of all FPs} 18:30, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - If restored, it could replace the photo at Lugano#19th century. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 07:41, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    - It's a more informative view of the town, but I'm a bit confused over why we would replace one 20th-century image by another to illustrate a section about the 19th century. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:56, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      - I think it would be useful in Lugano, perhaps in the 19th century section - it's a 20th-century image, but it illustrates the 19th-century development discussed in that section. TSP (talk) 14:06, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delist – The ideal solution is to restore the three plates individually and recompose the color photograph. That is way beyond my skill level. Hopefully someone will. Either way the result is delisting as this file should remain as is and the new restoration would be a new file. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 07:37, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not so sure about restoring individually, exactly. You'd want to have them as three layers while restoring them, so you could pixel-perfect match outlines and shapes. because even an outline being shifted just one pixel off would make for ugly haloing. Restoration generally isn't nearly that exact on unimportant details (E.g. if there's a blob over a patch of blurry grass, you'd just healing brush some blurry grass from elsewhere - but that would lead to colour craziness if it was only one layer in an RGB set, because it probably wouldn't match the grass in that area on the other layers), but would need to be here. Only thing worse than that is both halves of a stereoscopic image, where no mainstream image program will let you properly view the image in order to match properly. There's a reason we've only ever featured half of any historical stereoscope shot. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.3% of all FPs} 09:50, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delist per above. The original FP falls way short of modern resolution requirements, so reverting the new upload will not address the reasons for delisting. MER-C 17:56, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delist per disuse and current lack of an adequate-quality replacement. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:20, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delist per others. Geoffroi 05:21, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:49, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]