Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain, 1909

The closest thing North America has produced to a Shakespeare. Appears at Mark Twain, Osteopathic medicine in the United States, List of premature obituaries, Unfinished work, and Reception history of Jane Austen. Restored version of Image:MarkTwain.LOC.jpg.

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Durova^Charge! 09:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• There's surely better Twain portraits out there. I'm pretty certain I've seen a number better than this, which, given their age, should be out of copyright. This has an extremely narrow DOF with a lot of blurriness even at this size (consider his hair). Shadows and highlights are really quite harsh, though perhaps not so bad at full size. It would most probably get through on FPC, considering how voting goes there, but does ol' Sam deserve better? --jjron (talk) 11:59, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  • From what I've found at the Library of Congress, it came down to this or one other shot. A heavily cropped version of the alternate appears at Mark Twain - really the original is a three man group portrait where another man's hand is on Twain's shoulder, so that left very little room to maneuver even with a 20 meg scan. Durova^Charge! 22:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Seconder

Taken to FPC. Durova^Charge! 22:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)