Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Mary White Ovington.jpg

File:Mary White Ovington.jpg, not featured

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•  Info created by Charles J. Dampf - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:05, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:05, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment I'm having trouble with her face being kind of in shadow, with her blouse being so much brighter and therefore more emphasized. Was that some kind of stylistic vogue in those days? It feels like a bad practice in portraiture to me. Maybe this is really a VI, rather than an FP, through no fault of your own. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:02, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

  I think it was. Chiarascuro was a thing. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:03, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

• I'd want the chiaroscuro to make the blouse darker than the face. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:41, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

•  Support --Yann (talk) 12:38, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Question I'm new here and wondering is there any guidance on how these older photos are to be critiqued? I've seen people go quite strict on quality for newer images for sharpness, noise, artefacts, etc that this image would fail. At what time period do we drawn the line? And should we also be adjusting judgement of photos based on the camera used? (i.e. be more lenient on older cameras vs new top of the line ones?) --Jay.Jarosz (talk) 07:43, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

• Quality has to judged according to the technics used, and available at the time. All argentic pictures have some grain. Yann (talk) 10:35, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

•  Support Ikan’s point is very good … But after looking a few times at the photo in full size, it really impresses me somehow, the chiaroscuro works even if the face in shadows is against all my visual habits. Maybe because the photo shows Mary White Ovington reading, and it works very well as a depiction of the deep contemplation of a reader. --Aristeas (talk) 08:53, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 17:39, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 13:45, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Result: 5 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 19:49, 18 November 2023 (UTC)