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okay here goes.... wish I could someday actually see a wild bear, nice work.
I think the composition needs some works, way too much going on at the bottom of the image for me, the big black rock with lots of white is very distracting.
Would take some off the left of the frame too get rid of some of those whiteish rocks. Maybe a bit off the right but not much, I like to have some area where the bear is looking.
Don't mind the bears background at all. I wish his face was sharper more in focus, and more of the star attraction.
I'm new so maybe others will be able to elaborate on what I'm seeing in the face, which to me is the most important part in my opinion.
Its a nice landscape natural shot with a nice subject and environment.
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Thanks for your input. I cropped out some of the distractions. Your right, the face is a little soft. Looks like it is focused on his rump. It was a little dark and i stopped down to keep a resonable frame rate as he was moving.
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Hi Matt,
with f/3.5 I actually expect a more blurred out BG. You have a big blue cast in there. WB ( White Balance ) will help in this case. That changes the look very much of your image!
Watch the blacks, that those or not totally black!
For me it does not much matter much that the bear does not look at you, show show this bear more in it's environment, very nice.
Have a great weekend
Ciao
Anette
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Like the comp of the repost. It eliminates a lot of the bright rocks behind the bear. A nice setting for this shot. Could maybe pull back on some of the blue/magenta in the bear but the overall scene looks about right for me.
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I helped, I helped.....sorry a little giddy about that.
Love the repost, completely changes the bear feels more intimate still captures the environment. Brings more focus to the water too.
Do play with the color suggestions above, I'm not skilled enough to say yes or no, I do see a bit of a magenta blue-ish cast. If you ease the magenta the greens should pop more.
Awesome repost.
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With all due respect to the comments above I prefer the OP. But I like landscape wildlife shots as much if not more than portraits. You should feel lucky you got them out of a bush on that road, I didn't on the last 2 days the park was open. I agree with the color adjustment and the face is a little soft, another reason I would leave the more open habitat shot. But that's just my opinion.
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Maybe try a pano type crop with the distracting rocks eliminated from the bottom but keeping the "sense of place". Be nice to get Morkel's comments because he excels in these type images. Maybe it's my poor eyesight or monitor but I don't think the IQ can handle that much of a crop, looks too soft to me.
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Hi Matt. Late to this one...
It's a nice scene overall, though I may be tempted to crop from the top to place more emphasis on the bear. The coat still has a lot of blue in, even in your last repost. Look at selecting the bear and reducing blue/cyan through the saturation tool (the easiest way). Overall fine detail/definition on the bear could have been better, not sure what the 5D2 files look like at high ISO...
Looking forward to more from your archives.
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Thanks everyone for your input. Sorry for the delay. I got rid of the blue (totally missed that) by hue/saturation slider in CS6. It allows you to choose each color in saturation and I went -50 or so left to fix. Normally I would fix in RAW using the saturation tab. Thanks again!
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Sorry for the late reply. Really like what you did with fur. A lot more detail.
Thanks!
Matt