Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount St. Helens eruption

Mount St. Helens eruption
Voting period ends on 3 Jun 2013 at 10:25:22 (UTC)
 * Reason:EV, the corresponding article is featured.
 * Articles in which this image appears:1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
 * FP category for this image:Natural phenomena/Others
 * Creator:USGS
 * Support as nominator --Brandmeistertalk  10:25, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Support - I was eying this some time ago and wanted to nominate it, but I forget why I didn't. Solid, unique historical image, high resolution. I don't mind the digital manipulation used here (seems to have been a bit of levels and some brown/sepia toning). A little grainy but considering the subject I think that's understandable. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:17, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Honestly, I'm not entirely happy with this, given the existence of colour photos such as File:MSH80_st_helens_eruption_plume_07-22-80.jpg, as well as at least one more dramatic black and white on the USGS gallery linked, I'm not sure why this image gets the lead spot.  There's a whole set of possible images we could use; this one doesn't seem as good as at least a few other options. This also has a few other problems: It has a tight crop, which lowers EV by removing any sense of scale, sepia toned is rather historically inappropriate for a 1980 photo, and perhaps most worrying, the credit line is "Austin Post, scanned photograph by USGS, cleaned by and adjusted by carol" - are we even sure we can use this?   Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:30, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I think this is Austin Post, who worked for the USGS. Chick Bowen 18:44, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Added alt which is also in the article (among the worthiest in USGS series in my view). Brandmeistertalk  21:34, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment Both images seem really soft. Is this a product of scanning or something? I almost prefer the alt, but even then, I think whoever edited the "atmospheric overlay" really darkened that foreground. It should be possible to remove haze (light cyan) without killing all the detail. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 02:49, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Sorry.  Crop too tight.TCO (talk) 20:16, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 16:16, 3 June 2013 (UTC)