Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/San Francisco earthquake fire

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[edit] San Francisco Earthquake 1906; fire

Original - San Francisco Mission District burning in the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Image taken on a rooftop near the fire by H. D. Chadwick.

Edit 1 - The image has been sharpened and as much noise as a result has been removed

Reason: User:Durova nominated it on Picture Peer Review, praising the danger of the circumstances of the picture taking. It very well illustrates the fire section of the article, and it is of high resolution.
Articles this image appears in: San Francisco earthquake of 1906
Creator: photograph taken by H.D. Chadwick, U.S. Government War Department

Support as nominator Enuja (talk) 01:21, 5 January 2008 (UTC) I support the original; the sharpened edit does not improve the image at all, as far as I can tell. It does look an itsy bit sharper on the people in the street, but some of the building ledges have artifacts, and the smoke is honestly essentially indistinguishable between the images for me, except that the edit might have some of the grain blotted out. I was flipping back and forth between images at full resolution, and in much the space of the picture, it was very difficult to see a difference. - Enuja (talk) 22:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Support. My thunder has been stolen! Hoping I get conomination credit for digging this out of the Commons slush pile and editing it. Durova^Charge! 01:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Support Good pic, good resolution for its age. Clegs (talk) 04:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Comment Is there any chance of seeing this picture being slightly sharpened just to see if this improves it slightly?Seddon69 (talk) 18:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- Good thought; that was one of the things I experimented with during cleanup. It caused some pixelation without really much benefit, although if you'd like to give it a stab and your results come out better I'd gladly support that. Durova^Charge! 20:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Support by Clegs. —αἰτίας •discussion• 20:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Support Looks good, encyclopedic. --Shark face 217 05:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Support Marvelous, historic and encyclopedic. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:42, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Comment I have put up a slightly sharpened image with and tried to limit the noise from this especially seen in the clouds. Seddon69 (talk) 17:18, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you! I'll see what other editors think. Cheers, Durova^Charge! 21:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Strong Support Very nice historical shot. Cat-five - talk 08:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Support A historic and majestic shot of good quality. --Ubardak (talk) 08:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)