Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shasta Dam under construction

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Original - Shasta Dam construction work in June 1942, showing the empty middle section which would later become the spillway.

Edited version by Thegreenj.

Edit 2 from original LOC tif

Reason: Interesting photo of the dam's construction in 1942.
Articles in which this image appears: Shasta Dam, Sacramento River, Construction and Russell Lee (photographer).
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator: Russell Lee (US Farm Security Administration)

Support as nominator --KFP (contact | edits) 12:00, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just found the edited version, added as an alternate. --KFP (contact | edits) 12:25, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose alt for crazy jpg artefacts. I'm not sure about the original yet, neutral at the moment. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 16:25, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- as Aaadddaaammm said, the artefacts in the alt are a problem. The original version has a lot of problems with dust spots, fibres, etc. Ultimately I think it would be best to start again with the Library of Congress's 6100*4600px TIFF version, and do a proper restoration. Then we would almost certainly have a FP-worthy picture. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 17:36, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support original, this is a really impressive landscape of a major bit of historical civil engineering. For me it meets the 8 criteria, I'm not too keen on over-'photoshopping' pictures, I suppose there are a couple of hairs/scratches that could come out. TehGrauniad (talk) 23:44, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I also Support Edit 2.
Support edit 2. I started over from the LOC tif (note higher resolution, which allows us to make out the workers better). I didn't do much to it: tiny levels adjustment and removed some dust. Chick Bowen 20:40, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Chick Bowen! I've replaced the other versions with this new one in the articles. --KFP (contact | edits) 13:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support edit 2 JJ Harrison (talk) 23:45, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 2 Cowtowner (talk) 00:33, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 2 –- good work, thanks for taking the time to do the restoration. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 09:24, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 2. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 19:34, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Shasta dam under construction new edit.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 09:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]