Just a Face and a Caption: Historical Domain Character

The caption's doing all the work, and it still doesn't really work out if you don't know who Marie Antoinette is in the first place.

I suggest we have montage. Like so.

That's not the best one, simply because it just sticks an image from an article on the side, but we can make a better one later.

edited 30th May '12 11:49:50 AM by TropeEater

Well find a different picture of her, and pair it. I admit should have done that in the fist place when I made the page. Give me a few moments.

EDIT: How's this?

edited 21st May '12 9:33:15 AM by DragonQuestZ

It's a good start.

That one's good. I like the fact that the images are about the same size.

Nothing wrong I can see about that.

That works.

I like that one. It helps that they're at the same angle.

I actually cropped the left one that way to match.

I kinda fail to see how the proposed new image is more indicative than the original one. Considering neither portraits look alike, it doesn't really tell me "Look. Same person adapted for some work!"

At least take someone with a distinctive appearance, like say Abe Lincoln with images from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter 1◊ and Clone High 2◊.

edited 23rd May '12 11:03:01 AM by Ghilz

Something like this?

Works for me.

+1

Could all the frames be square and/or the same size?

Agree.

bump.

Is this okay? I just cropped some off the bottom in order to make all frames the same height.

The collage is good. But the third image is not. They guy has a very iconic face, why hide it?

Presumably the work did it to portray him as some melodramatic or something guy. It provides variety and it's clear from context that it's him, but if we can get a shot of his head from that work it would be better.

The problem is it is impossible to tell it is him. In context it is not that bad. IT is a serviceable image. I just don't see the point in sticking with that particular image. We certainly have no shortage portrayals of him.

If he were wearing the hat in all four panels, possibly.

Movie's not out yet. Hope ya got a time machine

There are many other fictional depictions of Abraham Lincoln besides the vampire hunter movie. (e.g. [1]◊)

edited 17th Jun '12 1:59:28 AM by rodneyAnonymous

I assume that the caption is going to make it clear that it's Abe Lincoln in all four pics, especially once it's potholed, so the debate over the AL:VH poster seems silly.

edited 18th Jun '12 7:49:59 AM by Willbyr

Plus even if you don't know which one is the 4th image, it's him in all three. I'd assume readers who don't know the AL:VH image can guess it's him there too, rather than say, Julius Caesar. And he's wearing Lincoln's famous top hat.

No need to treat all readers like they have severe brain damage.

edited 18th Jun '12 9:54:05 AM by Ghilz

Well, that is still the worst of the four individual pics in that image. I don't mind it as it is, but if someone would bother creating a better one, I'd be all for it.