Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shasta Dam under construction

Shasta Dam under construction
Voting period ends on 4 Jun 2011 at 12:00:33 (UTC)
 * 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: 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)
 * Just found the edited version, added as an alternate. --KFP (contact | edits) 12:25, 26 May 2011 (UTC)


 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Agreed. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)


 * Support edit 2 JJ Harrison (talk) 23:45, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Edit 2 Cowtowner (talk) 00:33, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Edit 2 –- good work, thanks for taking the time to do the restoration. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 09:24, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support edit 2. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 19:34, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Support edit 2 has to be one of the best construction pics ever.©Geni 08:40, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 09:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)