Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Michel Fokine, Arlequin.jpg

File:Michel Fokine, Arlequin.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
•  Info created by Atelier Jaeger / Gallica, uploaded, restored, and nominated by Yann (talk) 18:01, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I like the elegant simplicity of this postcard. Also feature a famous choreographer and dancer. -- Yann (talk) 18:01, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Yes, Fokine is absolutely important, he's photographed in a very expressive pose, and the image is in good condition. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:09, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very artistic. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 21:39, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Good historic image ... also different from what we see here usually. Daniel Case (talk) 00:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I see you restored it, clone out some defects, well done thank you. But you also change WB, my words are not a real criticism as I'm not a I am not a specialist of restoration or of old pictures, however I think the near sepia touch was/is a deliberate artistic choice for some black and white photographers. Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 07:18, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
  • I didn't change the white balance, I change the mode to "grayscale". The original is not sepia. Regards, Yann (talk) 09:27, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support The more excellent and useful restorations of old photographs (or engravings or maps etc) we have as FP, the better it is for Commons...and for my own pleasure !Thanks Yann.--Jebulon (talk) 21:39, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
• I'd probably go a bit heavier for the dust spots on the background, but you got all the large ones. One issue is that I'd remove the two stamps if you're converting to greyscale - it's misleading as those, at least, had colour.  Weak oppose for the stamps (Above Fokine and below the signature), since we've lost information there, but if they're edited out... Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Adam Cuerden, these are on the original postcard, so removing that would go much further than restoring the scan. Regards, Yann (talk) 03:36, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
    • Well, you need to actually keep the colours, or declare them unoriginal and remove them, I don't think that one can justify greyscaling elements unambiguously intended to be in colour, but I also think that library stamps aren't inherently part of an image, so there's solutions. Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:47, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 20:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Pofka (talk) 11:43, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Hubertl 18:23, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 16:33, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:29, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: People