Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Conf dead chancellorsville.jpg

Conf dead chancellorsville

Confederate dead behind the stone wall of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia, killed during the Battle of Fredericksburg Dec 13, 1862. Photographed by Capt. Andrew J. Russell.

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Reason: Informative and impressive photo of a war-struck country, where the dead are all kinsmen.
Articles this image appears in: American Civil War, Battle of Chancellorsville, Pattern 1853 Enfield
Creator: Capt. Andrew J. Russell

Support as nominator — Communist47 00:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Historical, but really very bad quality. Hard to call this not knowing the rareity of the shot. -Fcb981 19:40, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One must remember, this picture was taken 145 years ago, this is pretty good quality for a photo from then 1860's.Communist47 23:15, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the photographic quality avaliable at the time was much better, but this is a very historic photograph, and it is hard to ask for more when this picture illustrates its subject so well even if it is of low quality. J Are you green? 23:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support original See my above comment. J Are you green? 23:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per Thegreenj. I love the cracked and broken plate at the top; very fortunate that images like this have survived in any form. mikaul^talk 23:59, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support original Agree with Fcb981 that I, not an expert in historical photography, find it hard to judge the historicity of the photo. Quality is not too bad, all considered. In any case, I feel the original is better, not only because of the cracked plates but also because the figure in lower left gets cut off in the crop. --Asiir 11:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The original pic is currently not used in any pages. The alternative pic is the one that appears in all the pages listed. Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct 07:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
oppose alt / weak oppose original. Alt has weird levels - looks posterized. Original is also poor quality, and I can't even make out all that many corpses in it. An image like this one, while also not of FP quality, at least is clear in its portrayal of the slaughter. Debivort 00:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - very poor quality; while it is of significant historical value, we have technically better shots of similar subjects from the Crimean War of ten years earlier, and much better shots of the Paris Commune dead from a couple of years later. Warofdreams talk
Support Even though there are probably better quality Civil War images, this one is very interesting. · AndonicO ^Talk 18:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support original only. Interesting historical photograph. Mgiganteus1 06:32, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Conf dead chancellorsville.jpg The Sunshine Man 21:31, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]