Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Aepyceros melampus petersi female 8014.jpg

Black-faced female impalas at waterhole

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Feb 2012 at 21:25:56 (UTC)

Reason: why you think it meets the FPC criteria and should be featured (check criteria first)
Articles in which this image appears: Impala
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator: Alchemist-hp

Support as nominator --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:25, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Pro. High quality, "WOW"-factor arises by the water droplets from the snout of the specimen in the middle. Grand-Duc (talk) 00:35, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Question What EV does this have over the other impala pictures? --Muhammad(talk) 02:45, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This photograph depicts 3 different viewing angles of an impala, hence a high educational value. --Grand-Duc (talk) 00:30, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Drinking position also adds EV. ZooFari (talk) 01:29, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I echo the concerns above - there are already four impala FPs - kind of hard to justify a fifth. I'd suggest a delist and replace of the current female FP (File:Female impala.jpg) as this one is higher image quality and has the additional EV of the waterhole (grasslands already being shown in the male impala FP and the oxpecker FP) --Fir0002 04:23, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This is the species: petersi (Aepyceros melampus petersi = black-faced impala) from the north of Namibia. The other FP impala is the species melampus (Aepyceros melampus melampus) from the east of Afrika. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:22, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Different subspecies gives enough EV for me, though I agree we probably need to have a impala trim. JJ Harrison (talk) 04:30, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Again impalas? Imho bad composition, overall too dark and has nothing eyecatching.--♫GoP♫_T ^C _N 09:46, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, again an impala, but incl. hooves! And I think you need to calibrate your monitor. The image isn't dark. It is perfect exposed. Take a look to his histogram. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 22:26, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
My monitor is perfectly fine. File:Serengeti Impala3.jpg has better contrast and composition. Background is out of focus.--♫GoP♫_T ^C _N 14:51, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Image is executed well technically, but lacks a certain bang. No argument about EV, it just doesn't grab me the way I expect an FP to do. Clegs (talk) 09:53, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. -- Spurzem (talk) 11:45, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Not a fan of the harshness and direction of the lighting. It creates annoying shadows that distract form the facial features. --Dschwen 15:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support very nice! --Brackenheim (talk) 18:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Aepyceros melampus petersi female 8014.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 21:31, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A close one, but if dissenters don't make their objections official, there's little a closer can or should do. Grand-Duc, please use "support" in future instead of "Pro". Thank you. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 21:31, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]