Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mount St. Helens eruption

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OriginalMount St. Helens during the 1980 eruption
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
 
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  • Support as nominator --Brandmeistertalk 10:25, 25 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 02:49, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Sorry. Crop too tight.TCO (talk) 20:16, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:16, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]