Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/CharlesGriffin.jpg

Maj. Gen. Charles Griffin[edit]

**Original** - **Charles Griffin** ( December 18, 1825 – September 15, 1867) was a career officer in the United States Army and a Union general in the American Civil War. He rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac and fought in many of the key campaigns in the Eastern Theater.

Reason: Greatly illustrates the article Charles Griffin and of course has great enciclopedic value.
Articles this image appears in: Charles Griffin
Creator: Unknown, mabye Brady?

Support as nominator CPacker (talk) 22:15, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Not the best quality but, as always, I'll take encyclopedic value over less-than-ideal technical aspects. faithless (^speak) 06:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support The encyclopediac value is high, but, per above, the technical quality isn't great. For example, it is quite blurry on the bottom right. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 12:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support, the technical quality is very high for a picture taken so early in the 19th century. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 13:11, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great encyclopedic value and quality for such an old image. crassic\^talk 20:23, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. This image could probably go in Epaulette too. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:30, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It does have great enc value but really doesn't appeal on any other level. Quality portraiture for this era relied more on the subject being able to stand still during the exposure than anything else, and Charles seems to have been a right fidget. Look how clear and sharp the static elements are. The print lacks density too, which doesn't help. Sorry, but I wouldn't hold this up on the main page as an outstanding example of its kind. For comparison, I've pulled this one out of commons at random, based on capture date (as we say these days). Much more like it, no? --mikaul^talk 01:35, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:CharlesGriffin.jpg --Malachirality (talk) 18:23, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]