Sorry couldn't resist this one and it will be the last, as it was from the same sequence as the previous one, but might just give a bit more scale of the PB? Same issues shooting from a boat, so would have preferred a bit more at the foot of the image. Dig those paws.
Steve
Subject: Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Polar bear walking away from seal kill on ice pack
Location: Svalbard
Camera: Canon MKIII
Lens: 500f/4 - handheld
Exposure: 1/1250s at f11 ISO200 +0.67 compensation
Crop: Slight crop (original capture horizontal)
Circular Polariser drop in filter used
PS Curves, levels, slight drop in exposure to darken BG -0.95, slight USM
PS: Levels, Curves, H/S, small amount of USM, cropped (only applied to bear, not on snow)








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I know what you mean about the snow, hence my comment in the OP, it even has a tad of NR over it to.
I not holly convinced about using a drop in, as my fear is always that it attracts more dust into the lens and really the 500 does give good colour without using it IMHO.


