Brown bear cub with mother

[Monte Brown]

Taken during a bear boat trip in September 2010. The mother's face is out of focus but love the expression on the cub's face.

1D Mark IV
800 5.6 IS
1/160 @ f8
ISO 1000
AV mode

Comments appreciated

[Morkel Erasmus]

the cub's face is very cute Monte...unfortunately the OOF mother isn't working that well for me here...I would try a much tighter crop on just the cub to eliminate her from the scene as I find she distracts IMHO. I like the "wet look" and would also tone down the blues a tad?

[DanWalters]

Love the expression of the cub and the detail. Agree about trying a tighter crop.

[Marc Mol]

Lovely pose on the cub, shame about the OOF mum and agree with Morkel that it detracts somewhat and might benefit on a closer crop on just the cub.
TFS

[Todd Frost]

Agree with above comments. Did you by chance take this as a vert also, just the heads and shoulders?
TFS
Todd

[Ken Watkins]

I agree with everybody's suggestion about the crop, I suppose it just depends on whether you can maintain IQ.

[Monte Brown]

Cropped image, not as sharp as I hoped.

[Harshad Barve]

OP looks better here
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

Monte,

I have had a play with the original post, I must tell you that you need to post the best quality image, using the method recommended by Artie and described in Steve's sticky at the top of this forum.

I have used methods described in APTATS 1 a very worthwhile investment available from the BPN shop.

What do you think, obviously starting with the original RAW will result in a far better result.