Coastal Brown Bear - Lake Clark National Park No. 2

[Robert Amoruso]

A Coastal Brown Bear from my workshop at Lake Clark National Park in August. Cropped as shown but I have some more room around her so other cropping suggestions sought. This is one of my favorites from the trip so far.

Canon 1D Mark III
600mm
Subject dist: 47m
1/500 sec, f/5.6
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 800

[Dave Mills]

Hi Robert, Great detail,light and a wonderful subject. An image I just want to look at!

[David Fletcher]

Excellent pose and eye contact Robert. Love that wet fur and the colors.

[Steve Canuel]

Hi Robert,
I think the crop suits this one just fine. The head turn and raised paw pointing in the same direction goes well being contained within the edges of the heart-shaped pose of the bear. I also like the light and colors.

[Stu Bowie]

Thats a fair sized bear Robert, and how are those paws. I like the look on the face, and I feel your comp is fine as is.

[peter delaney]

I really love this image.. wonderful pose ..

well done
peter

[Mike Tracy]

Nicely done Robert. With the exception of removing the flies to the right of her head I would leave it as is.

[Mike Milicia]

Great pose ... can see why it's one of your favorites!

With respect to the crop, I think I'd like to see just a tad more room on the left.

It is obvious that you have captured incredibly sharp detail here and it is hard to
judge sharpening from a jpeg on the web, but, FWIW, as it appears to me here on my 24" Cinema Display,
it seems very close to the line of looking oversharpened and a bit unnatural, especially the body.

[Robert Amoruso]

Great pose ... can see why it's one of your favorites!

With respect to the crop, I think I'd like to see just a tad more room on the left.

It is obvious that you have captured incredibly sharp detail here and it is hard to
judge sharpening from a jpeg on the web, but, FWIW, as it appears to me here on my 24" Cinema Display,
it seems very close to the line of looking oversharpened and a bit unnatural, especially the body.

Thanks Mike. The problem is I had to use a quality setting of 50% to get in under 200kb. At 100% it looks much better and not over-sharpened. I even went back and lowered sharpening to make the final JPEG look better. This one only had one round of sharpening at 175/0.3/0. Only thing I can do now is redo the whole image as I started with some capture sharpening and remove that. I decided it was not worth the effort because when I post it to my website, it will be at a higher IQ level.

[Robert Amoruso]

Nicely done Robert. With the exception of removing the flies to the right of her head I would leave it as is.

Mike,

Thanks for the kind comments. I thought about the flies but decided to leave them in.

[DanWalters]

I like the way you cropped it, brings a lot of emphasis to the suject. Also like the detail in the bear, especially the eyes. The raised paw is very nice as well.

[Harshad Barve]

Raised paw, nice crop and awesome details makes it grand
TFS

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Great pose and image with excellent detail and a wonderful view of those grizzly paws but most of all I love the beautiful eye contact. Fine work Robert.

[Morkel Erasmus]

this is a very pleasing image. some space on the left will improve slightly IMO, but this is just pure bear-candy to my eye! :)

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely pose, details and great raised paw.

[Chris van Rooyen]

You have really managed to convey the massive bulk of the animal! The soft sidelighting enhances the texture in the fur very effectively. Overall a powerful image, the raised paw adds that special touch!