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File:Maharaj Kumar Rani Sita Devi of Kapurthala, edit.jpg[edit]

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Maharaj Kumar Rani Sita Devi of Kapurthala
There's a lot of dirty marks - I think a fingerprint - on the right hand side of the lower (sideways) crystal. Otherwise, it looks quite nice. Background is maybe a smidgen darker than I'd have gone, but acceptable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:12, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose As I wrote a few days ago on a Wikipedia FPC, "we shouldn't be trying to imrove the original. Restoration here should be about restoring a print artwork to how it was. Not trying to improve the original". Yann's comment on editing the background on the original nomination was sound, "I would not do that." Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:03, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I'm OK with this as pointedly an edit of the other photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:35, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I'll have to agree with Charles here. This should be treated as an artwork, not something that can be "improved" upon. Pretty sure the photographer intentionally chose to do the framing like this. Cropping it to a square very much changes how the image feels. Same for the background, there was probably some dodging and/or burning applied in the dark room to brighten the center/darken the edges. Now we've got an unnatural-looking, pitch black background without any grain structure - that's not an improvement at all. --El Grafo (talk) 09:21, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The original artwork is a famous photograph coming from a Museum of Art and Photography. It has a ratio of 5:4, which means the photographer Andre Durst did not opted for a square, width = height. It is a portrait aspect, vertical framing featuring a vertical crystal obelisk in the center of the image.
As said before, altering the format of a famous photograph is a sacrilege in my view. See Lead room in photography, or Ma (negative space). Empty spaces in paintings and photographs are never meaningless. For example you cannot cut the sixth panel of this painting just because it's empty. Free spaces produce a visual impact for most of the observers, and the arrangement of these volumes in space constitutes an essential part of the artistic creation. -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:38, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination People are never happy. Some want it edited, some want the original; some want it cropped, some don't... Yann (talk) 21:28, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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