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File:Dorie Miller - Restoration, full.jpg, featured[edit]
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- Info created by unknown U.S. Navy photographer - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:04, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:04, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support - Photo with a lot of history and notability. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 23:42, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Yann (talk) 00:07, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Princess Rosalina 💄 452274 01:22, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support Great photo in excellent condition. It looks like you darkened the photo and increased the contrast. Could you give us some insight into why? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:54, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- We know, from our knowledge of sailor uniforms, that his clothing should be fairly bright white, and the tie fairly dark. The rest follows. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:07, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Got it. Thanks for explaining. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:35, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- No worries! It's kind of a judgement call to a big extent, and there are compromises between detail and colour, so I didn't want to go too dark and slightly stretched the whites to bring out detail. Facial detail didn't have any problems - midtones hold detail well, and his neckerchief is a fair bit darker than his skin, so as lomg as I watched the neckerchief details - any darker and we'd lose them i think, but they all still show - So I knew I was fine in the face if I didn't screw the neckerchief up, thanks to that, and other photos of him show he has quite dark skin. I don't think you can always get skintones perfect in historical photography, but it's certainly easier with a 1940s photo than a 19th century one, so we do our best. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- ...I just realised I could write several pages on trying to get skin colours accurate in old photos. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:45, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
- Maybe you should! Your article could be useful to others who might want to do digital restorations. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:20, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
- I might do it for the Signpost on en-wiki. Just going to have to be careful about wording, given, y'know, racism exists, and the topic of shades of skin colour has a load of history behind it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:54, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
- Maybe you should! Your article could be useful to others who might want to do digital restorations. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:20, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
- ...I just realised I could write several pages on trying to get skin colours accurate in old photos. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:45, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
- No worries! It's kind of a judgement call to a big extent, and there are compromises between detail and colour, so I didn't want to go too dark and slightly stretched the whites to bring out detail. Facial detail didn't have any problems - midtones hold detail well, and his neckerchief is a fair bit darker than his skin, so as lomg as I watched the neckerchief details - any darker and we'd lose them i think, but they all still show - So I knew I was fine in the face if I didn't screw the neckerchief up, thanks to that, and other photos of him show he has quite dark skin. I don't think you can always get skintones perfect in historical photography, but it's certainly easier with a 1940s photo than a 19th century one, so we do our best. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:05, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Got it. Thanks for explaining. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:35, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- We know, from our knowledge of sailor uniforms, that his clothing should be fairly bright white, and the tie fairly dark. The rest follows. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:07, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Llez (talk) 06:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support Excellent. --Aristeas (talk) 08:44, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support per Coffeeandcrumbs. Good image resolution. -- Radomianin (talk) 08:47, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support -- IamMM (talk) 09:05, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support Great photo. --SHB2000 (talk) 11:59, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 20:26, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --GRDN711 (talk) 21:43, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Tagooty (talk) 03:08, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Ivar (talk) 13:19, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 15:26, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Cayambe (talk) 08:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Mosbatho (talk) 19:14, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
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This image will be added to the FP gallery: People/Portrait#Men