Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Battle of Spottsylvania by Thure de Thulstrup.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 May 2012 at 16:57:02 (UTC)

Reason

As regular FPC participants know, longtime contributor and image restorer Adam Cuerden has retired from Wikipedia. However, he has continued his image restoration work and posts them now to his DeviantArt site. He recently contacted me to offer any restorations that he hadn't already uploaded for Wikipedia articles, and this one here is a real gem. The colors are vibrant and lifelike, and you can make out the texture of the paper when viewed full-size. This replaces another restored version of this image (also done by Adam), at right.

Articles in which this image appears

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House

FP category for this image

American history

Creator

Thure de Thulstrup; restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator --—howcheng {chat} 16:57, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support large image, agree with nom about being better than the previous image. Pine^(talk) 08:22, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Query: I'm intrigued that the file claims copyright for the restoration. Has the creator of the work ever justified this claim? The central test has always been one of originality, so I can't help but think this sits uncomfortably with "restoration" and specifically one which does not alter the character of the original. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 11:16, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • In the UK (Adam is Scottish), one can claim "sweat of the brow" copyright, which is what the CC-BY license applies to. —howcheng {chat} 16:16, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yes, sorry, I knew that. While we're here, though, the original work needs a US tag (1923 would probably be uncontroversial). Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 16:29, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:22, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support JJ Harrison (talk) 07:39, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support- Excellently descriptive photo. Bzweebl (talk • contribs) 03:10, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Question What is the reference for the colours in this restoration? It's much darker than any other versions. Yomangani^talk 12:25, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Not being the restorer, I can't say for sure, but my guess would be that if you're playing with the curves tool in Photoshop or GIMP and you get the clouds to be white and the Confederate and US flags to be the right colors, the rest should be reasonably accurate. —howcheng {chat} 16:00, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Update: I asked Adam and he says he consulted a reference book of L Prang & Co. prints. —howcheng {chat} 16:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • It seems that the answer is "educated guess" which would be my argument for leaving it unrestored. Yomangani^talk 16:57, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support a fantastic restoration by Adam --Guerillero | My Talk 17:31, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Battle of Spottsylvania by Thure de Thulstrup.jpg --Jujutacular (talk) 00:04, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]