Wikipedia:Picture peer review/I.I Shishkin (1856) View of the Environs of St. Petersburg

A rare and beautiful print of a russian masterpiece

Have a look at existing featured paintings for the sort of scan quality expected at FPC. Copies of litho prints like this one need to be scanned from exceptionally high quality originals, or the screen dots tend become more visible than original detail. Especially true of poorer-qualtiy scans like this one, where heavy correction can cause tone and colour to go astray. I'm fairly sure the sky here is the wrong hue entirely, for example, and where it meets the horizon there's an uncharacteristic (for Shishkin) splash of white. Great painting from a great artist, I only wish we had a better copy :o/ --mikaul^talk 23:33, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]