Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Navajo man in ceremonial dress

Original - A Navajo man, full-length, in ceremonial dress including mask and body paint, c. 1904.

Reason: A well composed image of Navajo ceremonial attire from a century ago. Good textures, contrast, and depth of field. Encyclopedic historic and cultural value. Restored version of Image:Navajo-Curtis.jpg rotated and cropped, with artifacts removed and some depigmentation replaced.
Articles this image appears in: Navajo people
Creator: Edward S. Curtis

Support as nominator Durova^Charge! 17:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Oppose its too dark to decide other picture quality issues.D-rew (talk) 17:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Oppose unless it gets brightened up a tad. And with that, it's awesome. Support. Dr. Extreme (talk) 18:45, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
- All right, levels adjusted a bit. Hit refresh if you don't see the change. Durova^Charge! 19:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Support Very nice photo, adds value. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 19:35, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Comment The brightening has made the posterization in the background much worse, and in my view was unnecessary.--ragesoss (talk) 00:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Support--Mike Spenard (talk) 06:07, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Weak support It's a bit posed-looking, but photographs of that time had to be or they'd be blurred. I was uncertain about this for a while, but finally decided that the encyclopedic value of the costume had to win out. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:32, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Zahadolzhá--Navaho.jpg MER-C 05:28, 7 March 2008 (UTC)