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Dragomen Eating, not featured[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 11 Jun 2010 at 13:50:06 (UTC)
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Info created by Trancèdre Dumas - uploaded by Banzoo - nominated and restored by Banzoo -- Banzoo (talk) 13:50, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Support -- Banzoo (talk) 13:50, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Oppose -- I'm afraid being old is not enough for FP status. Nothing extraordinary that I see either in the theme or picture. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)- Oppose – Nothing extraordinaire, awful quality. --Steindy (talk) 18:02, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
- Although it's a 120-yo photo, its quality surpass some of your 2MP pictures that you yourself have uploaded using recent technologies. Maybe nothing may seem extraordinary to you, but it should be noted that it's rather rare to find historical photos from the 19th century about cuisine traditions in the Levant.--Banzoo (talk) 22:30, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
- Support Photography, and a photograph, can be a social document of great value. Photographs, with time, become windows into the past, bringing into today events, depictions of people or places that can be rich documents of knowledge. Whether we recognize their value or not does not diminish their value, but rather, points more to our lack of sensitivity or lack of knowledge. This picture, from the photographic perspective alone, and considering the time it was taken, tells us about a competent photographer that while the subjects seemed too posed, took care to record important cultural elements into account and preserved them for us, with very good photographic technique and equipment available at that time. Photography has changed with time and technology, but there are core elements within the media that remain stable, such as photography as a recorder of reality, conditions, etc., and in this case, this photograph is a frozen moment from the past. Even in its time, considering that most people were unable to withness different ethnic groups, this picture surely served as the television of their time, allowing people to see people from far off places, etc. If I analize this photograph from a perspective that does not take into account history and the notion of photography as a social document, well, some people may consider it bad. In my personal point of view, this picture is featurable because a) It is a good photograph from its time, b) good composition; c)good photographic technique; d) good darkroom technique; and most important, e) a valuable historical document. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 02:15, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Neutral for now. It looks like parts are overexposed (ie right man's hand), If it's from the import process then it should be fixed first. --ianaré (talk) 05:35, 4 June 2010 (UTC)- Oppose – ditto to Alvesgaspar. And bad crop at the top right, with part of that whatever-it-is the man is looking at, cut off. - MPF (talk) 18:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Question A rethorical question, Would the Mona Lisa lose its value because the paint is cracked? --Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:38, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- It isn't for sale, so we can't know ;-) . . . but I wouldn't automatically make it a Featured Picture just because it is famous . . . I've never cared for it myself, so would probably vote against featuring it, but not just because the paint is cracked . . . so there you are ;-)) MPF (talk) 19:53, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- Oppose - Great information, so,so image. Mlpearc pull my chain 'Tribs 21:04, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
