Black Bear

[John Mack]

This image was created in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on 8/8/18 at 9:40AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 4000
f6.3
1/400sec

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Hi John, I like the tongue sticking our and the eye contact. Details look great. The foliage is a bit saturated and you could tone that down.A bit more room to the left and below would also help.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello John,

A very special image you have here, wonderful pose from this bear and I love the eye contact. Nice POV. I see you pushed the techs as far as you could, welcome to the high ISO club:bg3:

Framing works for me, I would perhaps take a bit from the top just below the brown leaves/vegetation. In terms of colour I find the greens a bit strong, but the bear looks good IMO.

Do you think the mouth and tongue could do with a bit more colour? I have never encountered the species in real life so this is not a suggestion but rather a question.

Thank you for sharing John and I hope to see more from you, I am a great fan of close-ups and really enjoyed viewing.

Kind regards,

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi John - An interesting pov and the open mouth with tongue adds. You would have more detail if you opened up the midtones slightly. Agree with Gabriela about the brown leaves, the greens and bringing out a bit more color in the mouth/tongue.

TFS,
Rachel

[Jay Shah]

Hi John, Nice one. Nothing to add to comments made. If possible, I wouls try to rotate the image counter clockwise and see whether that works better. TFS.