Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Along the River 7-119-3.jpg

Qing Ming Shang He Tu (Along the River During Qingming Festival)

Along the River During Qingming Festival; this panorama painting is an 18th century Qing Dynasty reproduction of the famous original by Chinese artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145 AD) of the Song Dynasty. This elaborately detailed handscroll painting, supposedly depicting the old medieval city of Kaifeng, is among China's greatest visual masterpieces.

Original

Edit 1

Reason: See also original nomination, which has already dropped below the "attention horizon" before we figured out how to retrieve the higher quality version. The version by antilived is the original, mine the brushed-up version, to see the difference between the two you can check the version comparison on the right.
Articles this image appears in: Along the River During Qingming Festival
Creator: Zhang Zeduan

Support as nominator — trialsanderrors 19:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Unless someone finds a stitching error or compression artifacts. Good job on the new nomination. ;-) --Arad 22:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support - Nice improvement. If any picture on this page deserves FA staus, this one definately does!-DMCer 23:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, well done. gren グレン 01:32, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support Great improvements; the original is a B&W thumbnail by comparison. One problem: how is this going to fit on the Main Page?--HereToHelp 01:34, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Check Along the River During Qingming Festival . (Also see both versions on the talk page.) ~ trialsanderrors 01:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Okay. I should add that I opposed the original below for reasons cited there; I support only the edit.--Here T oHelp 21:10, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Although it would be great if we can smooth out the luminance variation. --antilived^{T | C | G} 06:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not sure if that's not in the original. ~ trialsanderrors 08:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Either version. Congrats on finding this, Ishaana 13:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Both with a little preference for Edit1. Blieusong 17:29, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit. --KFP (talk | contribs) 15:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose edit and Support original. The edit just ups the contrast for no reason. The image is centuries old, we should expect some fading, and who says the contrast was even that great when it was first created? All I can say is this edit added extraneous 'pop' that isn't necessarily, and probably not representitive. Furthermore, the edit was sloppy. It lost some subtle color information by 'blowing' the blacks (blown shadows). -Andrew c 17:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- There are, from my estimate, about 20 different versions of this image online. You can see some in the Along the River During Qingming Festival article and some doing a Google image search. Very few have the low contrast of the National Palace Museum, so unless anyone actually saw the original at the museum we have no information about the actual contrast level, but likely it is higher than the NPM version. On "blowing out the blacks", can you actually point to an area of digital black? ~ trialsanderrors 19:52, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support Any Been a long time since a picture on this page has made me go 'Wow!' Centy 12:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Support either. Is there a translation of the text all the way on the right? howcheng {chat} 19:40, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Along the River 7-119-3.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 09:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]