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This image was provided by the Tropenmuseum for the ocassion of the GLAM wiki conference in Paris. it shows a Samo man playing a war horn. the Samo people are underrepresented on en:wiki yet, getting this picture featured helps to find others who can contribute information about them.
Oppose noisy, bad crop. Bad technical quality in general, even for a pic taken in the 70's. In my opinion, FP status is to notice the special qualities of a picture, not to make anthropological advertisements. Sorry for poor english, it needs a long discussion, but I have not the vocabulary...--Jebulon (talk) 09:30, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the image has not been cropped at large. so this might be more a question of general composition. i checked for rules of thirds which works well here. note that there is no information available on the technical equipment used to produce this image. neither camera model and used film nor scanner were mentioned on the source. a statement on technical quality can be difficult if these variables are unknown. feel free to write me a personal note in french/german so i can get your point. regards, PETER WEISTALK10:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Having pictures like this and cherishing them is more important then having the next picture of the Taj Mahal, a fly or other critter. This is not an an "anthropological advertisement", it is because of this picture that we find that a whole people is not known in our Wikipedias. The notion that featured pictures is only because of the quality of a picture is wrong in principle. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 13:33, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
But this picture is very grainy (better word than "noisy") IMO, whatever it shows. I must be very careful in using dangerous words, but a picture cannot be FP only because it shows something or somebody "exotic" for northern-western eyes... Sorry I do not want to hurt anybody... I hope you understand what I mean.--Jebulon (talk) 18:14, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support this b&w photo seems that has no whites (but only greys) - and this can be corrected (it is a technical issue). It has a well balanced composition (nice aesthetically) and it is an educational subject. Ggia (talk) 09:57, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment i'm not sure whether i get your point here. levels were adjusted, resulting in minimizing sheer black and white areas. the shirt of the samo man was slightly darkened via levels, resulting in increased contrasts in that particular area. overall the changes were rather subtle on this image. please let me know what kind of correction you would apply here. regards, PETER WEISTALK10:07, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment looking to the images.. using an image processing software.. I saw that applying some masks you can enhance this image.. Later on I will try to edit this image and apply a new version to demonstrate what I mean. But the image is good and nice.. it is not a comment to be used by somebody to vote oppose.. Ggia (talk) 10:46, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
general enhancement of original image.. some dark areas have more light, contrast-level correction masks in several parts of the original image Ggia (talk) 22:19, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment thank you very much for taking time creating and uploading this version. my attempt was to do a restoration and therefore change as little as possible. lighting up shadows on the head or the war horn itself at this extent was therefore out of the question. your version features enhanced contrasts which i did not see as part of the original photograph. both version have a right to exist - i see your version as an opportunity for printing and mine as an opportunity for those interested in the "original" photograph. regards, PETER WEISTALK07:59, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Info created by Johan Theodorus Broekhuijse - edited, uploaded and nominated by PETER WEIS TALK 21:38, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Support for high ev and historic significance PETER WEIS TALK 21:38, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Oppose noisy, bad crop. Bad technical quality in general, even for a pic taken in the 70's. In my opinion, FP status is to notice the special qualities of a picture, not to make anthropological advertisements. Sorry for poor english, it needs a long discussion, but I have not the vocabulary...--Jebulon (talk) 09:30, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Comment the image has not been cropped at large. so this might be more a question of general composition. i checked for rules of thirds which works well here. note that there is no information available on the technical equipment used to produce this image. neither camera model and used film nor scanner were mentioned on the source. a statement on technical quality can be difficult if these variables are unknown. feel free to write me a personal note in french/german so i can get your point. regards, PETER WEIS TALK 10:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
