Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Russell Lee

Russell Lee

Voting period ends on 13 Jul 2024 at 14:15:23 (UTC)

Original – Photographer Russell Lee, in about 1942.

Alt 1

Reason

Another in a series of photographs of photographers. There are a couple other options (e.g. File:Russell-Lee-FSA.jpg), but this one was by far the most widely used, and the one that looked the worst in the old version. I'd say the crop is fairly conservative: I didn't crop any of him (except maybe a few pixels at the bottom: edges aren't perfectly straight), but did take a smidgen more off the right to centre him, and cropped the weird... reflection? damage? intruding lights? at the top, which still has more than ample headspace. (Compare File:Portrait of Russell Lee, FSA (Farm Security Administration) photographer - Original.tif)

Articles in which this image appears

Russell Lee (photographer) +2

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers

Creator

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 14:15, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
• Comment – Those out of focus areas aren't great for FP. Can you do something about that, Adam? The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

  Can't go back to the 40s and reshoot it. Choices are either to crop or accept it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 17:05, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Haha. But that out of focus areas really do bother me. It's an excellent shot with good EV. But since we don't have a time machine lying around in a hot tub to fix that focus issues, Oppose. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:45, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Fair, but, y'know, sharpening doesn't really work with film grain, and Charles would be here to oppose if I crop his legs out. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 05:21, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose A photo of a photographer ought to be perfect. Here, the focus in on his ears, not his eyes... --Janke | Talk 18:29, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

@The Herald and Janke: How about the alt? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 02:12, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

• Support alt - Yep, works for me now. Better. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:11, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1 – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:19, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

• The Alt is quite fuzzy, too... --Janke | Talk 08:59, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

  for the 30s/40s? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 10:15, 6 July 2024 (UTC)