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Margaret D. Foster[edit]

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Original – Margaret D. Foster, in her lab, 4 October 1919
Reason
A fantastic action photo of a person who A. was the first female chemist to work for the United States Geological Survey, and B. worked on the Manhattan Project.
Articles in which this image appears
Margaret D. Foster
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
National Photo Company; Restored by Adam Cuerden
  • Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:28, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - About as good as we can expect for an indoors action shot from 1919. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:53, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – good EV. Sidenote: The photo shows her at work but I wouldn't call this an action shot. This is a set and posed shot. In 1919 nothing was left to chance, intentionally. A blurry subject and/or a moving subject is not synonymous with action shot, IMO. Bammesk (talk) 02:48, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Point. I should have said "simulated action shot" or the like. But it's in the actual laboratory, and presumably pretending to do actual things she did. Adam Cuerden (talk) 02:52, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • I agree, the photo shows her at work, and it is a very nice photo. A slice in time :) Bammesk (talk) 02:55, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, high EV, good quality photo for 1919. Also, nice work improving the article. Kaldari (talk) 07:09, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Jobas (talk) 06:07, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. It doesn't look straight. I wonder whether making the upright vertical would be better. 109.146.248.31 (talk) 17:33, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • The drawers at the bottom are straight; they seemed the most likely to be the correct ones to use. There's also a matter of balancing how much you'd need to crop out to make a rotation: Make the shelves completely vertical, and you're cropping a lot out. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:13, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • Making the shelf upright exactly vertical loses very little, and nothing of any consequence that I can see. To my eye, actually, the best result is achieved by making that upright fractionally off vertical, in the same direction as presently, but not so much. 109.146.248.31 (talk) 19:58, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
        • When I tried it, it made everything else look tilted. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:37, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – INeverCry 20:34, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Margaret D. Foster, in Lab, 4 October 1919.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 00:49, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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