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File:Alexander Gardner by James Gardner - 1863.jpg, not featured

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•  Info created by James Gardner - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:50, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 22:50, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
•  Comment The paper and the picture yellowed quite a lot, and you could fix that. Yann (talk) 22:55, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

  That's just sepia. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:57, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

  IMO this is sepia: File:Alexander Gardner by James Gardner - 1863, edit.jpg. Yann (talk) 20:20, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

  That seems a little pale, and maybe off-colour. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:57, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

•  Support Nice portrait, excellent restauration. – Aristeas (talk) 17:44, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
•  Oppose A nearly perfect face and legs blurred into fog in the same photo. JukoFF (talk) 20:07, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

   Comment That’s just the depth of field; portrait photographers have always worked with limited DoF, originally just for technical, but soon also for aesthetic reasons. In this photo you can even see that the photographer used the lens tilt potential of his view camera in order to tilt (sic) the focal plane – thanks to that technique not only the face is in focus, but the hands and the frontmost (the left) leg are almost in focus, too. On the other hand the right leg and the left and right chair legs are clearly out of focus because the tilted focal plane is in front of them. That’s unavoidable. – Today many portrait photographers strive for an extremely small depth of field, using apertures like ƒ/1.2, so that only the pupil of one of the eyes is sharp. In the light of this trend we should not criticize portrait photographs from the 1860s for not using focus stacking, should we? – Aristeas (talk) 08:05, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 10:01, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Harlock81 (talk) 15:51, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Thi (talk) 08:12, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

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Result: 5 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 05:31, 19 August 2024 (UTC)