Category talk:Official United Kingdom Parliamentary photographs 2017

Average faces

An interesting analysis of these images is in https://medium.com/@puntofisso/i-calculated-the-average-face-of-a-uk-member-of-parliament-and-heres-what-i-found-37f31b72b5d9 Andy Mabbett (talk) 19:06, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Blog post

As Andy thinks that my addition to the the category description was "inappropriate" there and suggests using the talk page for commentary: In my opinion, just stating "for background, see https://pds.blog.parliament.uk/2017/07/21/mp-official-portraits-open-source-images/ " may be confusing, as that blog post could mislead people into thinking that the images in question are actually CC-BY-NC licensed, which would make them unsuitable for Commons. The blog post prominently shows a selection of other (non-parliamentary) photos by McAndrew with such an unsuitable CC-BY-NC license. Only further down in the post, in the section titled "Sharing is caring", it says "Eventually they'll also appear on Flickr where anyone can download and use them on a Creative Commons licence (although the same licensing agreement applies if you're downloading from the beta website too)" including a link to the CC-BY 3.0 license. It's rather unfortunate that the post's author doesn't mention the license for the parliamentary photographs directly in the text but prefers to talk about some unspecified "Creative Commons licence". On the other hand, for each of the photos the CC-BY 3.0 license is clearly stated at the source, beta.parliament.uk, so I don't quite see why we even need the link to that confusing blog post. Adding a license review would be a good thing, as it's a beta site, it might change - and who knows whether these images will still appear as CC-BY licensed on the parliament's site or on flickr five years from now, or ten years? But I'm not going to add {{LicenseReview}} manually to all of them. Gestumblindi (talk) 10:50, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Problem with white balance of the portrait photos

All the official portraits do not have a "natural" (daylight) look. I am an enthusiast amateur photographer and well understand, what the impact of a proper respectively improper white balance is on the resulting photo. From my perspective all portrait photos have a colour temperature which is too cool. In terms of software, with Adobe Lightroom the JPEG photos require an adjustment by increasing "Temp" by about 20 and decreasing "Tint" by about 10. However, the more appropriate approach on correcting the white balance would be on the RAW version of the photos (assuming they exist) instead of on the JPEG derivatives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tvjett (talk • contribs) 18:21, 27 March 2019 (UTC)