Andreas Liedmann
11-25-2015, 02:44 PM
a lot of things went wrong when creating and shooting this image , LOL .
Hi folks , i went through older folders and stopped at Alaska . This was in 2008 , my one and only trip to that place .
I tried to save money and was very late with booking , i got a great discount but with hindsight i think i saved the money in the wrong place .
As season was over when i got there ,was the only photographic guest in the lodge :Whoa!:, conditions have been not that much great . Not that much bears , weather was so so .In total i had 3 bears in 7 days .... bears do not seem to be my friends as i also had only 4 bears during my Svalbard trip a year before :eek3:.
At least these brownies came close ..... too close for my taste , in some cases .
As i was the only guest , i just got a quick tutorial how to behave when i have contact with one of them , and then i was left alone in the area around the lodge . Location was Silver Salmon Creek Lodge in Lake Clark NP .
So then i was exploring the area on my own for 6 days , hit by heavy rain and stormy winds , sleeping in a cold hut , was hardly able to get the kit dry over night . I could use a canoe which was nice to do , one day i did not look at the tide or better started my way back to the lodge to late i got trapped on a small island ....... 20 x 30 meter in size .
Was a bit afraid of having to climb a tree ...... but water did not come higher , so i survived with getting very cold and hungry before i could make my way back to the lodge , the guys at the lodge laughed at me ....... the bush rookie did survive , LOL !
Back to the image ..... i saw this guy faaaaar out on the mudflats ( 500 m maybe ) and i was following him parallel to his way , all of a sudden he started to turn and came my way ... slowly . And i was taking images , not good ones though . All of a sudden he started to run ........ into my direction , man i cannot tell you how i felt !!!
Not very relaxed ...... for whatever reason he started to run , finally he ignored and raced past me onto the beach and onto the meadows ...... and gone !!
I forgot everything while shooting , regarding the techs , so i was ending up with an image that is way away from ideal . But i still think it works somehow here at low res .
A bit sharp on the head and a bit blurry in the moving parts of the bear .
As exposure was not ideal ( what was here ideal , LOL ) i went for a somehow HK effect with a bit of contrast .
CANON EOS 1D MK IIn
EF 500 IS L
Tripod
F 5,6 ; ISO 800 ; 1/250 sec , this is some stunning setting for tack sharp images :bg3:
Processed with DPP and PS CC ; cropped for comp to 75 % of FF
Thanks for looking and reading my long story , and leaving comment to my previous posting .
Cheers Andreas
BTW i still loved to stay there, was quite an experience , hope to return one day .
Hi folks , i went through older folders and stopped at Alaska . This was in 2008 , my one and only trip to that place .
I tried to save money and was very late with booking , i got a great discount but with hindsight i think i saved the money in the wrong place .
As season was over when i got there ,was the only photographic guest in the lodge :Whoa!:, conditions have been not that much great . Not that much bears , weather was so so .In total i had 3 bears in 7 days .... bears do not seem to be my friends as i also had only 4 bears during my Svalbard trip a year before :eek3:.
At least these brownies came close ..... too close for my taste , in some cases .
As i was the only guest , i just got a quick tutorial how to behave when i have contact with one of them , and then i was left alone in the area around the lodge . Location was Silver Salmon Creek Lodge in Lake Clark NP .
So then i was exploring the area on my own for 6 days , hit by heavy rain and stormy winds , sleeping in a cold hut , was hardly able to get the kit dry over night . I could use a canoe which was nice to do , one day i did not look at the tide or better started my way back to the lodge to late i got trapped on a small island ....... 20 x 30 meter in size .
Was a bit afraid of having to climb a tree ...... but water did not come higher , so i survived with getting very cold and hungry before i could make my way back to the lodge , the guys at the lodge laughed at me ....... the bush rookie did survive , LOL !
Back to the image ..... i saw this guy faaaaar out on the mudflats ( 500 m maybe ) and i was following him parallel to his way , all of a sudden he started to turn and came my way ... slowly . And i was taking images , not good ones though . All of a sudden he started to run ........ into my direction , man i cannot tell you how i felt !!!
Not very relaxed ...... for whatever reason he started to run , finally he ignored and raced past me onto the beach and onto the meadows ...... and gone !!
I forgot everything while shooting , regarding the techs , so i was ending up with an image that is way away from ideal . But i still think it works somehow here at low res .
A bit sharp on the head and a bit blurry in the moving parts of the bear .
As exposure was not ideal ( what was here ideal , LOL ) i went for a somehow HK effect with a bit of contrast .
CANON EOS 1D MK IIn
EF 500 IS L
Tripod
F 5,6 ; ISO 800 ; 1/250 sec , this is some stunning setting for tack sharp images :bg3:
Processed with DPP and PS CC ; cropped for comp to 75 % of FF
Thanks for looking and reading my long story , and leaving comment to my previous posting .
Cheers Andreas
BTW i still loved to stay there, was quite an experience , hope to return one day .