Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/There's nothing but to fight for it

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 Nov 2014 at 19:11:34 (UTC)

Reason: A high-quality Levin Handy image (and images definitely identified to him, not Brady, are surprisingly rare).
Articles in which this image appears: Robert E. Lee, Levin Corbin Handy. Note that Crisco and I have been talking about rethinking the images in Robert E. Lee, and this may go to a different section of the article, but, as one of only two or three high-quality images, and me being involved, it will stay in the article.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator: Levin Corbin Handy, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:11, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment By the way, if you look just left of his shoulder on the top of the chair, I think you can see the mount for the neck brace. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:31, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - What kind of exposure time are we talking about? --Godot13 (talk) 19:52, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it was measured in minutes. I'm not sure of the exact times. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:54, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Hafspajen (talk) 23:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support a bit blurry.--Mark Miller (talk) 06:51, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's fairly sharp for the period, but prints tend to be a little less sharp than albumen negatives. There aren't that many high-quality pictures of Lee to choose from, and this one is far more dynamic. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:04, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I still support it, even if only weakly...but I do know focus was possible even for that period. There are many photos of the period with sharp focus. I can't really tell if this was from the original photographer or the scan/digital photography to be honest.--Mark Miller (talk) 02:43, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the image lost a bit of sharpness with the restoration and went a tad darker than the original. Still a very good image and one I support for FP. Nice work with the restoration by the way. I am working on restoring an image I already restored once but was not satisfied with the outcome. I am getting better with Adobe Photoshop more and more though.--Mark Miller (talk) 02:50, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I didn't rotate it, but there's a colour box, so I did adjust the colours based on that, then adjusted contrast a bit. Since I haven't rotated it, all the pixels should be in their original places, and thus as sharp as the original, but perceived sharpness has a lot of factors. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:10, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

True. What I did here was to view both of the images side by side and I can only say that if you made some adjustments to color that might have some perceptible differences in sharpness as the original was sharper, but only by a small amount that others may not even see themselves. I tend to view things with, perhaps, too much of an artistic eye. Still a good image though and very good restoration work.--Mark Miller (talk) 05:52, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support For the time period, this is a very good quality image. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:56, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - he looks homey and laidback, and for May 1869... can't really expect to be retaken. Hafspajen (talk) 22:04, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support — Historical EV. (When this was taken, a year before his death, Lee was president of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University. His respected stewardship there reflected an era when military professionals might also be academics.) Sca (talk) 16:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Levin C. Handy - General Robert E. Lee in May 1869.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:27, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]