Three Little Bears 2

[Rachel Hollander]

Another image of the three one year old cubs sitting on the beach in the warm, late afternoon light.

Canon 7D2
100-400 II @ 248mm
1/1000
f6.3
ISO 400
HH while sitting on the beach, cropped for comp mostly from the top, levels, curves, sharpened in PSCC.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[John Mack]

Nice frame of these bear cubs i like the composition and the light is nice. I like the how the tongue is hanging out of the right bears mouth just a little bit. The on in the middle looks the most serious of the three and the left one is just chilling. Are these the same bears as the last post of yours with bear cubs?

[Mike Poole]

Definitely one of your best here Rachel, just so much going on with the beautiful cubs. Great expressions, and they all look so full of mischief.

Eye level POV works perfectly and I like your choice of framing with the negative space above.

Superb work

Mike

[Marc Mol]

Where was Goldilocks when we needed her!

A lovely scene Rachel, why is it there's always one that doesn't read the script? Already it's easy to see 3 very different characters, nicely depicted.

Not sure if there was any more on that LHS?

TFS

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Hi Rachel, this is so cute. Love the 3 bears facing you and the expressions are very nice. Nice angle & light.

[Gabriela Plesea]

This trio of cubs is just adorable! I really enjoyed viewing, Rachel.

Lovely colours and tonality and nice detail (love the tongue sticking out and those paws and claws...).

I also like the little fella looking to the left, this is a fun pose that breaks monotony and adds interest to the scene overall. A tad more space in front of him would have been nice though.
Well exposed and processed, nice techs too, wonderful workCould we please have some more?

Warmest regards,

[Stuart Philpott]

I have to echo the word superb Rachel this is wonderful. I actually adore the left cub almost looking and rolling it seems out of frame.Way too cute rhs tongues and one straight down the middle. For me if they all were gazing at you this would not have the same drama and feel
just gorgeous Rachel.
simply gorgeous

stu

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I'm glad you like this one. Unfortunately no more room to the left. And yes, John, the prior post of the two cubs sitting was of 2 of these 3. I saw 2 different sets of cubs while at Silver Salmon Creek, these 3 that were about one year old and a pair of two year old cubs as well.

Thanks again,
Rachel

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Rachel, nice capture and great to get all three in shot, sitting too.

Like the low POV, but like Marc, I wished for more to the left for the cub to look into, as you just needed to pull back on the zoom a fraction more and then recompose. Light looks good creating some nice tonal depth. Personally I would have gone for more DoF f/9 as you had plenty of ISO and as the water was far enough away it would not have compromised the water. As presented I feel a tighter 16 x 9 (or 10) crop, loosing more from above would help, I just find there is too much dead space which isn't working. If you do revisit the crop then I would open look at the blacks in the dark shadows as they are clipped.

Looks like the weeks trip was a very productive one, nice.

TFS
Steve

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Rachel i do agree you must have had a great week up there ....a lot of good stuff you posted from that trip.
This is looking good with all the different poses and expressions on their faces .
I do agree with Marc and Steve regarding the crop ...
Still a pleasing image as presented .

TFS Andreas

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Steve and Andreas. Yes, a more pano comp is a good alternative.

Thanks again,
Rachel

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Rachel, great title and of course very apt for the image. Love the lazy poses, eye contact, and they all look like balls of fur. I do like how we can see their claws, and the protruding tongue of the cub on the RHS takes this over the top.

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Stu