Another charging bear from my last tour in Katmai. I love the water beard on this guy. I thought about cropping closer but I already took out 35% of the image and at ISO 1600 I get a little worried.
Wonder if I still took too much but I wanted the water off the face to be the central focus.
5D MarK III, 500 F4, F 8 1/1000, tripod, wimberly head, kneeling in the water.
clarity and decrease highlights in LR 5.2
luminosity mask, levels, reverse linear curve in curves, sharpened, size reduced and saved for web. ( Steve, notice no Nik, you've had an affect on me) Only sharpened face to leave water more natural. Still wrestling with sharpening wet fur but it looks like it looked at the time to me.
As always, comments appreciated.







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) but I wonder whether it is possible to get a bit more life into the eyes? They look very small and beady and a little bit of colour would lift the image IMHO.






