Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Governor's Mansion, Richmond, VA - 1905

Governor's Mansion, Richmond, VA - 1905
Voting period ends on 3 Sep 2011 at 08:33:05 (UTC)
 * Reason:It's a beautiful old picture with excellent detail.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Governor_of_Virginia, List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia
 * FP category for this image: Architecture
 * Creator:LOC image edited by User:Jbarta


 * Support as nominator --JBarta (talk) 08:33, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Support assuming that no color photos from the same time period are available. Pinetalk 09:01, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 1905? That would have to be a Miethe-style three-color transparency.  I don't know of any such thing in the US other than lab experiments.  Autochromes, a little later, but they were not used for this kind of subject (I'm planning to nominate one shortly).  Prokudin-Gorsky's work, much beloved and rightly so on this page, was not actually known in the US (or even much known in Europe) until much later.  It's really not reasonable to expect color before the development of inexpensive color film in the 1950s, and, if we're going to talk about film grain and maximum visible detail, I don't even think there's an appreciable advantage to color film, to this day.  Digital is a different matter. Chick Bowen 23:22, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment The unedited original should also be uploaded and linked to from the image page. The link to the LoC source is currently broken as well. JJ Harrison (talk) 12:30, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * LOC source fixed. JBarta (talk) 19:44, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Support JJ Harrison (talk) 23:28, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 *  Weak support. As JJ says above, I'd prefer that the unedited image is uploaded, and the actual edits documented (is there just cropping and minor cloning here, or is there also contrast manipulation?).  Since editing appears fairly minimal here, I'll support with reservations. Chick Bowen 01:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Original image is here. Edits are documented on the image page. JBarta (talk) 03:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I see now that you noted the edits in the upload log. You might have also just put them on the page.  Also, I generally upload the unedited version separately to Commons as a jpeg, as with File:Tripoli Tower of Lions unedited.jpg (edited as File:Tripoli Tower of Lions edit.jpg). Chick Bowen 15:12, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Support - I'm a Virginian, I have to support. :-) -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:48, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 14:14, 3 September 2011 (UTC)