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65: 324:. Looking at both images the current FP is clearly less focused, more blurry, and the proposed change has better detail and focus. There's slightly more information on the left part of the frame and slightly less on the right. But again due to hand print making of negatives in a darkroom slight variations in the edges crop will exist. As for the aspect, the difference is fairly minor, but due to the sourcing and providence of the suggested replacement I'd be more inclined to trust it's scan/print. — 55: 91:
Current FP is a damaged image, not used anymore, has been replaced by proposed FP replacement. I perfer the enhancements (dodging & burning) of the proposed replacement's print over the very bright current version. Iconic famous photograph, high resolution, well made print. Has an article about
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Remember these are prints, it's a battlefield, so smoke would darken the sky... all that jazz. In the darkroom you can do a lot by dodging and burning. The replacement print is the one at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. The current FP looks to be a quick print that the photographer didn't spend
83:: "American invaders spring from the ramp of a Coast Guard-manned landing barge to wade those last perilous yards to the beach of Normandy. Enemy fire will cut some of them down. Their 'taxi' will pull itself off the sands and dash back to a Coast Guard manned transport for more passengers." 259:
Which is closest to the original? The damaged image is a completely different aspect ratio, and if the EV is in the photograph as a photograph, then any modification reduces the EV. —
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Don't know about the aspect ratio, bad scan? The current FP is of unknown origins for it's scan. The proposed change was made as part of
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Also, it seems the photograph was taken in the morning, perhaps within four hours after sunrise. (ship was empty by 11 am) —
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much time or any dodging and burning it, theres many flaws that have been removed in the proposed replacement. —
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Good point. What about the aspect ratio? The "quick print" seems to have more information. —
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of this print is more dramatic, and is the widely used of the two now. Image was used on the
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per nom, although the fact that the current one is unused sways me most. —
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Knowledge:Featured picture candidates
delist
Into the Jaws of Death


Knowledge:Featured picture candidates/Into the Jaws of Death
File:1944 NormandyLST.jpg
dodging
burning
May 28, 1984 Time Cover
this version
Into the Jaws of Death
1st Infantry Division (United States)
1944 in the United States
Allies of World War II
Amphibious warfare
History of the United States
Invasion of Normandy
Michael J. Daly
Normandy landings
Omaha Beach
Photojournalism
Robert F. Sargent
Timeline of World War II (1944)
USS Samuel Chase (APA-26)
Knowledge:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Robert F. Sargent
raeky
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02:39, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

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