Shatner’s image looks like a professional photo.
Looks like Shatner either hired a pro to shoot a photo, or paid him for the rights to one of the rejects from another shoot. I wish more pros would do that, donating a single image to the public domain.
Was it this one? The current image is an excellent one.
He’s a pretty well-known historian in the UK, but I doubt few people would call my secondary thesis supervisor Diarmaid MacCulloch a “celebrity.” Nonetheless, he has the worst Wikipedia picture. I believe this picture was actually taken with a Viewmaster.
Wow, that looks like someone deliberately set out to produce the worst image possible to test new image processing algorithms.
Maybe the camera was far away from the person, and the poster had to crop his head out of a much wider field of view, and having to blow it up (expanding it) a lot, leaving us with those pixel looking spots.
Imagine someone taking a photo of ozzy osbourne during a concert, from the cheap seats…
Looking at it, I see vertical blur, but not pixels. There is a noise to it that looks like stochastic dithering.
William Tecumseh Sherman. But that was easy, it was in the public domain anyway.
Sorry, I am not a photographer or videographer. I see some “blur”, meaning that I think I see (especially around the frame of his left eyeglass lens, and the back of his jacket collar) a double image.
I definately see both green and blue “pixel dots” (from whatever the backdrop is), surounding his head, for example. His face color is made up of distinct dots, too (peach and red).
In the true spirit of the OP. That is both a terrible picture and an awesome picture at the same time.
The thing is, if it were just a poor digital photograph, you’d see a grid of pixels, or the blocks of pixels you see when an image is overly JPEG compressed. The color splotches are in distinct rings, as if the image had been screen printed. But it is hard to believe that any screen printed magazine would print such a blurry picture. I mean, you can save the image and load it into an editor and zoom in close enough to see pixels, but they are at a much smaller scale than every other problem with this picture. This is a very high resolution upload of a terrible picture, which makes it that much more a mystery.
He aint sayin cheese.
If I were still in contact with Professor MacCulloch, I’d joke with him that Chris Haigh (his friendly enemy in Tudor history at Oxford) must have uploaded that image. Then I’d take a picture of him with my cell phone camera and upload that…anything would be better than what’s up there now.
Well, try to make him.
No, I’m afraid that’s not what I remember. The cartoon image of Miazaki that Wikipedia used to have was a bit more stylized, a bit more anime, and had him with windswept brown hair. Obviously, that’s not what he looks like in real life, and that’s the point of the cartoon image. We get a look at his face, as he’d like to be seen. I just thought it was cool, but if Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, then yeah, the best photo possible is what they’d want.