Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cattle Round-up

Colorado. Round up on the Cimarron[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 Sep 2010 at 00:43:18 (UTC)

Reason: I think this is one of the most gorgeous restorations I've done.
Articles in which this image appears: Muster (livestock), Cowboy, Ranch. ETA: Cimarron, Colorado, since I was able to identify the location while stuck in the airport yesterday. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:00, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
FP category for this image: Hmm. Could go in either Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/American history or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle. Thoughts below!
Creator: Detroit Photographic Co.

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:43, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ Mild oppose This was taken with a scanner, you can tell, and it's not eye-catching. Sorry to be a bummer D: Gut Monk (talk) 01:32, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It's from 1898. this is an incredibly high quality photochrom, but exactly how much detail do you expect in a 19th-century photograph? (also, what does "taken with a scanner" even mean?) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:34, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Very little. The scanner's resolution is set too high, and it gives people (like me) ample opportunity to nit pick it. Look, the edges are blurry, it will be artifacted when compressed. Get my drift? Gut Monk (talk) 01:53, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- ie, the photo is taken from 1898; of course it is scanned from a book. Gut Monk (talk) 01:53, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - No, it's scanned from the original in the LoC's possession. Further, such high resolution scans make editing far easier. =) There's a strong taboo against downsampling here, (and Commons would just delete it anyway in favour of the full-sized), so... Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:56, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Another advantage of this is that, well, there weren't really any round-ups on this scale very long after this. Barbed wire made them unnecessary, you could just keep the cattle where you wanted them year-round. If anything, this is surprisingly late, just letting it squeak in to higher-quality photographic equipment. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:05, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - Looks unreasonably scaled up. --I'ḏ ♥One 23:15, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support For a photochrom, this look more like the real thing. Very eye-catching. Greg L (talk) 15:27, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support High EV, high res, attractive. Sasata (talk) 18:06, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cowtowner (talk) 14:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support No longer appears in Ranch or Muster (livestock), but has good EV in the remaining two (although Cimarron could use some accompanying text on the history of the place). Avenue (talk) 23:57, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good quality and resolution. decent enc. Spencer^T♦C 02:03, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Colorado._Round_up_on_the_Cimarron.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:51, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This was removed from Muster (livestock), its highest-EV usage. It might need re-evaluation at some point to see if it's still used in article space and if it still meets our EV standard. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:58,, 6 September 2010 (UTC)