Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pony Express Map redux

Pony Express Map redux

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Aug 2013 at 06:48:13 (UTC)

Reason: High resolution, high quality, well illustrated. Used in several articles. Previous nomination was... odd.
Articles in which this image appears: Pony Express, William Henry Jackson, +3
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator: William Henry Jackson (images) and Howard R. Driggs (text); restored by Crisco 1492

Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:48, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support excellent EV. Wow, last nom... what a train-wreck. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 20:02, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's good to see this back, without the train wreck. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:14, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Ooh, too early in the morning for me to be hearing clackety puns. Not to rail on anyone, of course. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:31, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support original (or any other restoration). I'm not so sure about the current restoration though. It seems to leave visible 60px clone marks to remove tiny specks of dirt where a very soft 12pt spot healing brush would have been quite sufficient. Also, I'm not even sure if those spots weren't in the 1950s reprint for an added vintage feel. ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 14:06, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I think I still have this file here. Where do you see the most blatant? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:14, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - Multiple spots. From the looks of it, it seems the clone stamp was used throughout to blot out the spots. ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 10:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    - I already went over my copy and I'm not seeing it. Do any of the other !voters see anything? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:12, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      - There's some water damage in a couple areas. I think he's seeing that. The restoration could've stood being a bit more extensive. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:12, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
        I got (most of?) them. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:48, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
      - Uh, no. There are a number of locations where spots have been removed wholesale by using a large clone stamp, which leads to impurities being introduced to the copy that just weren't there in the original. For instance, to the right of the "1861" in the title is now a dark spot cloned there from somewhere else that now looks like a fingerprint. As I said, a small spot healing brush is a much better method to remove those tiny specks than a large clone stamp. ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 12:02, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T (talk) 15:01, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Pony Express Map William Henry Jackson.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:49, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]