Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) adult male.jpg

File:Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) adult male.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals/Artiodactyla
•  Info All by Charlesjsharp -- Charles (talk) 15:30, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charles (talk) 15:30, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 17:14, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- PumpkinSky talk 18:43, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Golden Bosnian Lily (r) 18:54, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Sharp photo, good composition --Michielverbeek (talk) 21:56, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support the shine of the coat highlights the antelope. A very good picture. --Harlock81 (talk) 00:44, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:38, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Neutral Very nice capture but the shadow detail in various areas (front legs, back of the neck) is completely lost. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:48, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

• Technically impossible to be otherwise I think with a black animal without digital manipulation. Charles (talk) 12:04, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

 Support Dear Charles it is absolutely possible and please, take a look to the note "black shadow", It's a total black shadow that loss completely details aforementioned by dear King and you could up the shadows in lightroom to fix it, however, do it selective and careful because the result could be unnatural. Also you could simply buy a cheap anti hars contrast lens. A hug --The Photographer 01:07, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:12, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Background not as sharp as maybe it could be, but it's not the subject of the image. I like the composition ... as if you'd caught him stepping out of the bathroom or something. Daniel Case (talk) 03:13, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:26, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 10:14, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Proud guy very well portrayed.--Ermell (talk) 13:17, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Dэя-Бøяg 16:52, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 18:26, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Poco² 23:18, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:06, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 16:33, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - I'd like to see more of the hind legs, but what you got is sufficient for an FP, and those antlers are memorable. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:21, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

•  Comment horns, not antlers... Charles (talk) 09:24, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

• I didn't know the difference and looked at w:Antler. "Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the deer family. They are true bone and are a single structure.[...]In contrast, horns, found on pronghorn, sheep, goats, bison, cattle, and many other bovine, are two-part structures. An interior of bone (also an extension of the skull) is covered by an exterior sheath grown by specialized hair follicles, the same material as human fingernails and toenails." -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:21, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, the real practical difference is that antlers are shed and horns aren't. Charles (talk) 12:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:53, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 20 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 10:07, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals/Artiodactyla