Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Braxton Bragg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Jun 2014 at 13:30:31 (UTC)

Reason: For the time (c. 1863), not a bad portrait, and it has character to it. Confederate officers are underrepresented in photography - probably a mixture of Sherman burning down a lot of Southern cities, combined with the economic crisis of Reconstruction afterwards, and because Mathew Brady, one of the most notable photographers of the ACW, was a Yankee - and, indeed, so far as I can tell from checking what should be the relevant category, we have never featured a single Confederate soldier. As such, I think it fills a gap well.
Articles in which this image appears: Braxton Bragg + many others.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator: Unknown, restoration by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:30, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Also, yes, it's definitely sepia-toned. I used the colour guide that was in the original scan. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:33, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — A face full of character reflecting Bragg's reputation as a feisty curmudgeon. Agree with nominator regarding scarcity of Confederate photos. Sca (talk) 14:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Reasonable quality considering the age. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:35, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I would say this is on the lower end of FA in general as I have seen sharper images but that is mostly an issue of the photographer from that period and the equipment they had to use, experience etc. I think this clearly passes though.--Mark Miller (talk) 04:44, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Quite a character, this man, yes. I don't think that we can put the same high level of technical requirements on an old photo. ^{Though it would have made me nervous to meet him at night in some abandoned place, if he was my enemy.} Hafspajen (talk) 21:21, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Nice restoration. --Godot13 (talk) 23:05, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Dislike the "restoration" Support, but I would have preferred the original sepia.Coat of Many Colours (talk) 02:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- @Coat of Many Colours: What about it, if I might ask? If you mean the colours, note the original has a colour bar with it, which is what I used to get the colours. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:03, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, that's true and I changed my vote. I just have a weakness for sepia :) Certainly a striking image.Coat of Many Colours (talk) 02:44, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. J Milburn (talk) 21:31, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Braxton Bragg.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:31, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]