Black Bear

[John Mack]

This image was created in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on 8/6/18 at 9:21AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
403mm
ISO 1600
f6.3
1/500sec

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi John, personally I think you could loose about an inch off the bottom. The very white branch has to go, it's the one that is popping out of the bears head. The blue fringing around the bears fur also needed to be addressed in PP, Chromatic Aberration. Here I think if the bear cub was looking at you rather than away, it would have engaged better with the viewer.

TFS
Steve

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi John - The detail looks a bit better here but yes, the blue fringing is present again. Part of me wonders if Steve and I are looking at the same image because I would crop from the top not the bottom and think that the bear is engaging with the viewer. Agree that the white branch is a problem coming out of the head.

TFS,
Rachel

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello John,

Another cute bear image and I like the way he peeks at you from behind the foliage.

I would crop a tad from the LHS ( just past that leaf in the top L corner ) and also from the bottom. And I also think the white twig has to go. The blues you can remove in LR (HSL/COLOUR).

Hope you have a nice week-end, thank you for sharing,

Kind regards,