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File:033 Male Ugandan kob trying to seduce a female at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, featured[edit]

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Male Ugandan kob trying to seduce a female at Queen Elizabeth National Park
  • From the three versions you've uploaded, I think the first one is the best: it's softer and noisier, but suffers much less from oversharpening. It's a great result for a shot taken at 600mm and cropped to ~20% of its original resolution, but I don't think it's at the level of your other wildlife images. --Julesvernex2 (talk) 08:48, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for your comment. I don't see oversharpening on the fur. This picture is an action shot of animal behavior (an uganda kob trying to seduce a female (that in the end was not receptive, but the male got lucky with another female). In animal behavior you almost never know when something is going to happen before it is happening and 99% of the time, nothing special happens (only grass eating with the animal's head down, or moving). When something is finally happening you have to quickly move your lens to point it to the place the action is happening (a place where you're not necessarily already pointing at as the animals might have just been with the head down and not very visible), have the right parameters ready (which might have to be changed especially if photographing a still subject just before, which is often the case) and finaly press the button without shaking the camera. In that process many things can go wrong and the animal action often only lasts a few seconds so you have to be very quickly. In this case it was shot at 1/800s which is more than sufficient for such movement. Animal behavior beeing more rare and a lot more difficult to capture, I think that such pictures are generaly of higher value than pictures of still subjects. Therefore in my opinion this shot is of higher level than other shots of still subjects that I have made. Also, even if it wasn't as the same level of the others pictures I made, in my opinion it is still of FP level. Giles Laurent (talk) 10:38, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have no trouble believing that the shot was difficult to make (I own the same lens and have never captured anything nearly as exciting), and I suspect that the majority will agree with you that it is still at FP level. The FP threshold is (perhaps unavoidably) loosely defined, so disagreements here are to be expected. Less so on oversharpening, which should not be subjective. —Julesvernex2 (talk) 11:23, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    New file uploaded with sharpening of the fur reduced. What do you think now Julesvernex2 ? Giles Laurent (talk) 19:47, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:04, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals/Artiodactyla#Family : Bovidae (Bovids)
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