Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/I presumed correctly

David Livingstone

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Jun 2023 at 00:31:31 (UTC)

Original – Scottish missionary, explorer, and anti-slavery advocate David Livingstone

Reason

This is one of the most stunningly detailed photos I've seen in a while - probably need to look at George N. Barnard or Mathew Brady et al. to get similar. While that does definitely make the narrow focus planes of 1860s cameras a little more obvious, this is stunningly well reproduced. Admittedly, there was A. a drop in quality when the long exposure cameras gave way to the quicker exposure ones, so the 1860s is a bit of a sweet spot as that goes, but also B. the quality of prints from the photos generally wasn't as good as this - the recent George N. Barnard photo shows others could do it, but it was rarer and certainly not in wide-distribution prints like cabinet cards. Anyway, restoration notes on the file description page.

Any suggestions, leave 'em here, I'm going to bed and will review them in the morning. I find image restoration a good treatment for anxiety, so, yet again, Wikipedia benefits from my stress and panic. But now that I'm done - Sleep.

Articles in which this image appears

David Livingstone +3

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Religious figures, I guess?

Creator

Thomas Annan, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.4% of all FPs.} 00:31, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – a few spots in top right corner? Bammesk (talk) 03:01, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
  • Uploading a fix now. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.4% of all FPs.} 07:16, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:25, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – Historically notable; face shows strong character. – Sca (talk) 12:40, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

• I completely agree with you. I am new around, not a professional user in the field of image reviewing, and just have relative knowledge about the topic. The image, which is taken in 1864, seems totally solid, completely worthy, and is certainly adequate for being a "Featured picture". – Hamid Hassani (talk) 05:34, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

• Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 14:03, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support Bremps... 14:19, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support. MER-C 11:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support Snehrashmi (talk) 03:55, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support – Choliamb (talk) 23:11, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Promoted File:David Livingstone by Thomas Annan.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:29, 26 June 2023 (UTC)