Black Bear

[John Mack]

Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 8/6/21 at 9:26AM. Image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, 16x9 crop.

Canon 1DX MarkIII
Canon 500 f/4 IS USM
ISO 2500
f4.0
1/320sec

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

A very cool image of black bear in the trees trying to grab something. Nice exposure and comp. Wonder what the black blob is in upper right side? another bear?

[haseeb badar]

Hi John -- I really liked the scene, and the moment. Is there a tag on its ear ? and also is there a cub in the top rhs corner ?

Well, i feel the face needs a bit more punch, looks slightly thin to me.

You still did well considering shooting against the sky.

Nice moment and scene. TFS !

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi John ... a very cool scene captured .
You did well under the given lighting .... I might have moved the crop a bit upward .

TFS Andreas

[Basil Dardagan]

Its a fantastic action image that will immediately get viewers attention. Great result considering the lighting challenges. I agree that moving the bear up a little in the crop might improve the image and will enable you to eradicate more bright white sky