Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shasta Dam under construction

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)

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)

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