Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Welder making boilers for a ship, 1942

Welder, 1942

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. June 1942.

Another Alfred Palmer color photograph of World War II production; muted tones this time but still engaging. Clear and sharp high resolution file with excellent textures for color photography - look at the wrinkles on that work shirt. Good composition, sparks flying. How much more could you ask of a sixty-six-year-old photograph? Appears in United States home front during World War II. A pretty clean print to start with; Image:AlfredPalmerwelder.jpg didn't need extensive retouching. Are other editors as enthusiastic? Durova^Charge! 20:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nominated by: Durova^Charge! 20:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Seconder

Yes! Lovely shot, very evocative. In the context of early large-format colour photography, it's exceptional, really. I'd find a better home for it in a photography article, ~~maybe also at welding~~I've added it to welding already :o) and take it from there. --mikaul^talk 01:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- It is a nice shot. The lighting appears a bit artificial, as I think you mentioned on another image possibly by this same guy, but it's OK. Personally however I don't think it has a very high encyclopaedic value. I don't think it adds much (if anything) to United States home front during World War II. I also don't think it's especially valuable for welding, given that the welding itself is totally obscured; it's OK for that, but not great. Not sure what else it could add to (I know some think otherwise, but I'm not a fan of getting images featured just because they were taken by a well-known photographer, or just because they're old, or just because they're "good for their age".) --jjron (talk) 11:56, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree with Jjron-- it's a nice shot, but I'm curious as to whether it is illustrative of welding at this point, given how obsolete the depicted equipment must be by now-- perhaps some kind of article about the history of welding or of shipbuilding? Spikebrennan (talk) 13:44, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]