Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:View of Delft, by Johannes Vermeer.jpg

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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 30 Oct 2016 at 23:39:12 (UTC)
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  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media
  •  Info created by Johannes Vermeer - uploaded by Jan Arkesteijn - nominated by Jan Arkesteijn -- Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 23:39, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 23:39, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Since it's a Vermeer, the only question we should concern ourselves with is: is it well-digitized? It's enough for me ... I really like that we can see the craquelure, and ponder the artist's brushing technique in his fine details (@Ikan Kekek: I'm interested in your thoughts on this). Daniel Case (talk) 06:21, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Well, what I'm seeing is that the apparent source file (go to this link and then click "View of Delft" and enlarge the image as far as it will go) is smaller but finer than this version. It looks to me like the image was enlarged here to focus more on the cracks in the paint, but what's sacrificed is the ease of seeing a view that's zoomed but still focuses more on the light and shade of the painting (not the lighting on the painting) and its overall composition. In other words, it's not that I want to argue, exactly, that this version is too detailed, but rather, that the degrees of zoom available in the original, including full size, show the painting to better advantage as an artwork. Now if we had one of those humongous Getty images, where many degrees of zoom were available and the lighting was perfect, that would be a different story. But do you all see how the glare in the cracks is highly visible at full size in this version, whereas the full sized version of the original still looks pretty smooth, even though the cracks are visible? This is a high-level criticism, but I'm tempted to vote against a feature for this, unless my deduction of what was done to edit the original can be effectively debunked. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:44, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm going to  Oppose, partly per my comments above and partly so that a tenth vote doesn't automatically stop discussion. Perhaps no-one will agree with my points, and if so, so be it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:16, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 13 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mile (talk) 05:53, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic media