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Another nice bear image. I like the grass and the purple flowers add a lot in my opinion. I like the playful action here and the contrasting facial expressions. Good look at the claws too which is nice. I think I would try to sharpen the left one a tad more. TFS
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I like this one Rachel lovely playful scene,makes me cringe a bit with that claw so close to the others eye,looks like some strong sunlight from behind casting a shadow on the face but you have coped very well.
Keith.
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I like this one too Rachel. The left hand cub seems to be rather superior and is subjugating the club on the left with some ease of effort. I wonder was it so easy a few seconds later?
It looks just a tad bright overexposed to me, were the fringe hairs on the left hand club blown at capture? It may well be that your version is just about spot on, I keep forgetting you often have much brighter light over there than here in UK.
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Thanks Alex, Keith and Jon. I'm glad you like this one. It was taken around 1:30 p.m. so definitely the light was a bit strong. Jon - None of the hls are blown on my monitor or in the histogram. If I check in levels, I can bring the white point in to about 240 before I get any hot spots and that's in the teeth of the rhs cub. There's detail there, it's just that those guard hairs are super fine. Are you seeing something different in the histogram?
Thanks again,
Rachel
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Hi Rachel, no I didn't download it's just me thinking that club on LHS is very pale, (it probably was and I didn't appreciate how pale they can be).
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Thanks Jon. Yes, the cub was very blonde. North American brown bears/grizzlies come in a wide range of colors from light blonde to dark chocolate brown with lots in between including differing amounts of reddish color too.
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Hi Rachel, I would think they are more 'play fighting' than 'bonding' judging on those paws & claws.
Hard to know if there was a better angle as the LH cub with the sun coming from the LHS is creating a shadow on the RH cub, but I think on the face it helped to get more tonal detail. Personally I might have gone a tad lower, but not a deal breaker, likewise are they too central and should there be a bit more space to the right? Nice encounter.
TFS
Steve
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Love the playful interaction and faces on these 2 young ones Rachel, for mid day lighting you've done about the best one could hope to expect, the purple hue/flowers in the FG grasses enhancing nicely.
TFS
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Beside the direction of light, about which there's little you could really do unless they changed positions while they were playing around, I like the image.
I would normally like a bit more space to one side myself (noted Steve's comment), but I feel in this instance there is somewhat of a triangle created by
their butts near the lower corners of the frame and the peak of the action pretty much in the upper center. So it is not a big issue for my taste.
Thanks for sharing :)
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Thanks Steve, Marc and Akos
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Hello Rachel,
Can we have some sound, please? I am sure the play was accompanied by some grunting and snarling, LOL.
It must have been awesome to watch this scene and I bet you have a great number of frames from this encounter. Love the interaction and especially the cub on the RHS with its mouth open and teeth visible.
Well captured under those lighting conditions, techs look good and your PP work reveals nice detail where needed most. Composition works for me.
Happy with this as presented, thank you so much for sharing
Warmest regards,
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