Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Robert Cornelius
Robert Cornelius[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 29 Dec 2014 at 09:50:28 (UTC)
- Reason
- historic, first photo portrait, impressive quality for 1839; not sure if any real restorer can improve on the current version
- Articles in which this image appears
- History of photography, Robert Cornelius, Self-portrait
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
- Creator
- self-portrait, Earthsound
- Support as nominator – Nergaal (talk) 09:50, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
- Support Full EV and valuable in photography history. Alborzagros (talk) 12:09, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
- Support - A picture from 175 years ago that is vital. Short version is that here we have the first "selfie," an undeniably historic image. Jusdafax 20:36, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
- Quite a dashing fellow too. 109.157.10.232 (talk) 03:38, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Oppose Grainy, dust spots, etc...JOKE! Of course it's a Support. Full of EV, and "firsts" can never be retaken. gazhiley 15:53, 19 December 2014 (UTC)Oppose Grainy, dust spots, etc...JOKE! Support! -
Hafspajen (talk) 09:14, 20 December 2014 (UTC)- Support as others. Yann (talk) 19:32, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
Promoted File:RobertCornelius.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:53, 29 December 2014 (UTC)