Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Raft of the Medusa
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- Reason
- High resolution upload of a famous painting; target article is FA. I confess I'm not an expert on color grading but this version appears to be superior to the other ones I found in a quick Google Image search. I can't tell if the faint color-banding in the lower left is an aspect of the canvas or a fault in the reproduction.
- Articles in which this image appears
- The Raft of the Medusa, among many others
- FP category for this image
- link to category (listed on the WP:FP page) that best describes the image
- Creator
- Théodore Géricault, uploaded to Commons by Pq32
- Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 20:03, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose - Crushed blacks, overly contrasty shadows. Strange horizontal lines. Is this really the best version available? --Janke | Talk 11:25, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Comment – The painting is 23.4 feet wide, so at 5,872 × 4,008 pixels, the scan resolution is 21 pixels per inch. That's low. For a painting, fine details are lost at that resolution. I say 40+ pixels per inch can be Ok. Bammesk (talk) 12:34, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Screen resolution is 72 dpi. MER-C 16:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'm willing to accept that very large paintings may have a low dpi because they're very large. However, I expect better than "Unknown source" for an image of a painting at FPC. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs. 19:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose per above. MER-C 16:34, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 02:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC)