Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Coldstream Guards, Crimean War

Coldstream Guards, Crimean War[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 May 2019 at 01:14:57 (UTC)

Reason: Stumbled across this while checking out a new archive. I think it's a particularly nice bit of ephemera, good enough for Queen Victoria to get a personal negative of the image. This was briefly nominated before, but the discussion was kind of going way, way off topic, so I asked for it to be closed. It's since passed Commons (by rule of the 5th day, no less) albeit after a bit of a levels tweak which probably dealt with some issues that were derailing the last one.
Articles in which this image appears: Coldstream Guards, Facial hair in the military
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Military
Creator: Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett; restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.5% of all FPs} 01:14, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi (talk) 04:16, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support this time around as a high-EV illustration of outlandish 19th C. militaria. (Wish we could say with certainty that the tunics were red, though.) – Sca (talk) 14:05, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- They pretty much certainly were, but I don't think 19th century camera technology is perfect at that sort of fidelity. Chemical reactions are not the eye. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.5% of all FPs} 16:09, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - Besides, all photographic plates at that time were only blue-sensitive, i.e. "color blind", rendering red as black, likewise other colors at the longer wavelength end of the spectrum. (For instance, the Swedish flag became a "negative" in old photos; the yellow cross rendered dark, the blue background light! That made it look like Finland's flag... ;-) Support, BTW. --Janke | Talk 19:46, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 20:51, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In any case, it's an arresting pictorial artifact. Can you imagine engaging in combat wearing one of those crazy bearskin 'hats' – ?? Well, the whole Crimean War was pretty crazy anyway. Sca (talk) 21:36, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support, ~~but the caption and image description should specify who's where, I think it's from left to right.~~Brandmeister^talk 17:46, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Er, doesn't it? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.5% of all FPs} 18:41, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unless you're Chinese, or maybe Jewish? – Sca (talk) 20:35, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

But... the names are on the image if there's any doubt. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.5% of all FPs} 01:28, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett - Heroes of the Crimean War - Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:39, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]