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[edit] Carpenter

Tennessee Valley Authority carpenter at work during the 1942 construction of East Tennessee's Douglas Dam.

Edit 1 - Removed the dust from image. Down-sampled and sharpened and little crop from bottom. By: Arad

Edit 2 - Same as above, but colors corrected.

Reason

Just what a carpenter should look like. You can even see beads of sweat dripping down his face if you zoom in. This probably needs to be downsampled/edited, but someone more experienced than me should do it.

Articles this image appears in

Carpenter, Brace (tool), Drill, Construction worker, Overall, Hard hat, Tennessee Valley Authority, Manual labour

Creator

FSA photographer Alfred Palmer

• Support as nominator — Calliopejen1 18:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment – what's with the bogus colors? --jacobolus (t) 23:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

  Not sure exactly what you mean... The image hasn't been altered from the LOC color original. (See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35241) If necessary, the levels could be adjusted. Calliopejen1 23:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

  No no, the contrast is fine. It's just very weird lighting. --jacobolus (t) 23:42, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

• Support Edit 1 or 2 - It does represent a carpenter well. --Arad 14:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose edit 3 this didn't color correct. It added too much blue (look at the clouds) and green (look at the shirt). I agree the original is a little problematic (the red in the clouds). However, I am still deciding how I feel about an image that looks sort of staged, campy, and cliché, even if it a real period worker at work. I agree with jacobolus that the color is questionable to begin with. For the time being, I'm neutral for 1 and 2.-Andrew c 21:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose This looks staged somehow (especially the lighting and colouration) and for my mind doesn't show "carpentry" that well. It Does show "hard work" but we already have the B&W pic of the Mechaninc for that. Witty Lama 17:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose - Looks like a studio photo - Alvesgaspar 08:04, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm neutral on this picture, but this was in all likelihood taken on location. See this comparable picture and click through on "Tennessee Valley Authority" to see all of Palmer's TVA pictures. ~ trialsanderrors 08:08, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
• Support. Good illustration of construction worker. Punctured Bicycle 02:20, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 04:31, 28 April 2007 (UTC)