Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Burning Viet Cong base camp

Burning Viet Cong base camp

Description: My Tho, Vietnam. A Burning Viet Cong Base Camp. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, with 45 pound 90mm recoiless rifle., 04/05/1968

Reason: Header image for Vietnam War-- a powerful illustration.
Articles this image appears in: Vietnam War (header image), a few others.
Creator: Source: US Archiv ARCWEB ARC Identifier: 530621, Post-Work: User:W.wolny

Support as nominator — Spikebrennan 02:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose I love the pic, but the line that states "A Viet Cong base camp being" needs to be fixed up. When it is, please notify me so I can support it :). Z1720 06:41, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected it based on information available from arcweb image 594380 (not available online) but obviously taken at the same time, it says Photograph of Private First Class Raymond Rumpa Walking Past a Burning Viet Cong Base Camp 04/05/1968 Bleh999 07:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

support I'm the one that uploaded the high res version so User:W.wolny didn't really do any post work on this one..but it's all good. Bleh999 07:26, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Lots of scratches all over the image. Hi-res TIFF is available here. Lupo 08:33, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

yes I just uploaded it without any editing back in april, feel free to make new improvements, although apart from scanning dust, the quality is good for a Vietnam color image. Bleh999 09:06, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ehm... the jpg differs a little bit from the TIFF. Besides a slight crop, the blue (ink?) blotches in the upper left corner are gone, and the contrast/brightness and saturation are a teeny weeny bit different (visible for instance in the highlights on the plant just left of the soldier, and in the burning roof just above it). Sorry, I don't have the time to try to remove the damage the original has acquired since it was taken (the scratches). Maybe someone else would like to try it? Lupo 09:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I remember now, I did a slight levels adjustment and cropping, the main distracting scratch I see is the one near his wrist, this could be removed rather easily with a dust scratch filter used selectively on the area. Bleh999 09:41, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose Very dramatic pic, but the scratches are really distracting in full res. I'm sure there are better quality color pics of the Vietnam War out there. Sorry. Jumping cheese 18:05, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 03:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]