Original - A poster from the original production of John Philip Sousa's operetta, El Capitan (1896).Alternate 1: Selective brightness adjustments, creases and spots removed, depigmented areas repigmented, histogram adjusted and colors balanced. Outer edge partially desaturated.
Reason
An amusing, cartoonish poster from its original run, which gives a good flavour of what the production would have been like. Eye-catching and interesting. The original image, pre-restoration, can be seen at File:John_Phillip_Sousa_-_De_Wolf_Hopper_-_El_Capitan_unrestored.png - given the aspect ratios, I think that I'd best just link.
Comment Submitted an alternate version. Recusing from reviewing. DurovaCharge! 23:09, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I much prefer the colour balance of the alternative, but I noticed that the lettering (particularly on the top right corner but also patches elsewhere) seems a bit faded in parts and that doesn't seem to be the case on the original. Diliff | (Talk)(Contribs) 00:11, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Luckily, that's very easy to fix. I've gone ahead and done it, and just uploaded over Durova's, as it's a minor and very localised change. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:28, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support original - Both are FP quality, but there's something (I don't know) about the first one that's more appealing. Xclamation point 02:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alternate 1, Oppose original. It looks much better with the colors corrected. Kaldari (talk) 00:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Technically it's pretty good (perhaps a little lower res than other's you've submitted but not materially so) but I just don't see much EV in a poster for an opera. If this was illustrating some aspect of Poster I'd support. I'd like to have seen a shot of the actual production in full swing - perhaps something from the upcoming 2009 production --Fir0002 10:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support alt1. Good quality, I like the second one better. SpencerT♦Nominate! 02:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support either: great quality and I think it has good ev. That guy looks scary!Maedin\talk 19:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose per Fir. I just don't think the EV is high enough. Makeemlighter (talk) 00:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I know but still... a poster is just a piece of advertisment and does not, IMO, illustrate the subject at all. As mentioned above I would much prefer to see a photo of the 2009 production in action --Fir0002 23:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]