Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream[edit]

Reason: Working one step closer to an FP for each of Shakespeare's plays. Very high resolution. Restored version of File:Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Fuseli.jpg. Downsampled courtesy copy at File:Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Fuseli2 courtesy copy.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania
Creator: Henry Fuseli, artist. J. P. Simon, engraver.

Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 02:52, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'd prefer a bit more of the original yellowing: I just think it adds interest to these black and white engravings to show how they've aged. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 12:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support GerardM (talk) 21:31, 19 April 2009 (UTC) The provenance of the image is important. Yellowing is not really what we are looking for, imho it only detracts from the image itself.[reply]

To some extent, yes, but it always seems a little weird to turn a colour image into black and white, unless you're going to go another step further and lose the paper grain. You lose a bit of wow and make the original look like a reproduction. (Of course, this doesn't apply to images with actual coloured ink and the like, where going to white helps bring out the original intended colours.) I don't think Durova's actual restoration is in doubt. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:03, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

When you print, the original colour of the paper is white. Paper does have a grain so these two things are not connected. When we restore pictures, we do not lose information like paper grain but we should lose what was not there in the first place. GerardM (talk) 08:02, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I've taken the liberty of upping the image size - at 250px, it's just too darn small. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:09, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. There's just a couple of issues that perhaps could be fixed: a rust spot on the floating fairy's hand, and some weird blueish discoloration here and there left over from the original stains in the paper I guess (most noticeable in the top left hand corner over the vines, and on the leaf to the right of the leaf in the left bottom corner). Oh, and as long as I'm picking nits: about a third of the left hand white border is much brighter than the rest of the border -- also left-over from the original discoloration I guess. -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk)
Support The issues mentioned by Michel V. should probably be fixed if its easy enough.Noodle snacks (talk) 12:20, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice restoration. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 10:09, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Fuseli2.jpg MER-C 11:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]