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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports
•  Info Richèl Hogenkamp at the Madrid Open 2015, Madrid, Spain. Created, uploaded and nominated by -- Kadellar (talk) 15:40, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Kadellar (talk) 15:40, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
• weak  Support my only objection is the angle, it is taken from above. But it is also a great sport photo.--ArildV (talk) 17:58, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you for your review. It is quite usual for tennis to have a high point of view, so you only see the colour of the court, no ads, no public, no line referees. --Kadellar (talk) 19:07, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

• I wouldn't say it's usual for professional sports photography, maybe amateur photography... Most professional tennis photography is taken at the level of players and use a shallow DoF to minimise those distracting elements. Diliff (talk) 15:19, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

• From yesterday's final: [1], [2], [3] --Kadellar (talk) 10:06, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
• And this one from 2013 is absolutely epic: [4] Photographers use to stand up with their 300mm or 400mm 2.8 and monopods apart from low point of view pictures, they do both. I've got no 2.8, but I've got good 400mm. --Kadellar (talk) 10:12, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

• I know the angle is often used and it can work well, I was just saying that it's not the most common angle for professional tennis photography. This google image search on the words "professional tennis photography" suggests that perhaps 5-10% of it is taken from significantly above court level. Not a scientific survey, I know, but a rough indication. :-) Diliff (talk) 10:23, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

• Diliff, I see at least one per line of results, so that's about 20% for me ;) --Kadellar (talk) 11:19, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

•  Support -- Pofka (talk) 18:04, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Good action scene. --Tremonist (talk) 12:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support D kuba (talk) 09:30, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support. After thinking about it for a while, I think it's good enough. I'm not such a fan of these angles but I agree that they are a valid way of minimising distracting background elements. This one has great simplicity. Diliff (talk) 12:03, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
• Weak  Support The shadows in upper right corner are a bit pity but nice action shot. If this photo is downsized image, high resolution would better, imo. --Laitche (talk) 15:36, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roleček 22:20, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Thank you all for your support and comments. --Kadellar (talk) 14:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Sports