Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:The Sunday at Home 1880 - Psalm 23.jpg

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File:The Sunday at Home 1880 - Psalm 23.jpg, featured

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Psalm 23
  •  Info created by Joseph Martin Kronheim (?) - uploaded and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:07, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This was scanned at 800 dpi. The original is about 6-8" wide, at full size, my monitor makes this about 6 FEET wide. This is great for reproduction of the work, but you may prefer a less extreme view for evaluating it as art. Dschwen's Javascript viewer, while not perfect (it tends to look very slightly blurred at lower zooms), will help. Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:11, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info An interesting bit of ephemera, representative, though better quality than the vast majority, of things you may have seen a lot if you were raised in the American fundamentalist evangelical tradition like I was. Unlike those, this is freely licensed, and (although I'm still seeking confirmation of this, initial enquiries have been positive in the identification) by a reasonably notable creator of such materials. Also illustrative of a Victorian publishing house, the Religious Tract Society, which we have precious little else from.
  •  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:07, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support That is wide... Very interesting, well done restoration. NativeForeigner (talk) 18:24, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question on the files page there is also a link to the original scan. I compared the original scan with the nominated version and I think that the contrast in the nomination is too high which results in lost details. And I think an important criteria of judging restorations is that details don't get lost. Correct me if I am wrong...I am for sure not an expert concerning restorations. --AngMoKio (talk) 23:16, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Scans rarely come out with accurate colours. Since I own the original, I adjusted it to get as near to that as possible. I've looked at it again, and discovered a way to make it slightly more like the original: Kronheim uses a reflective bronze-colour ink, which scans differently than it looks to the eye. Once I realised that, I could selectively desaturate red in that area, leading to the currently-uploading version, which, to my eyes, looks as identical to the original as you can get. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:16, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 6 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 12:34, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic media
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