Black Bear
Nov 22, 2013 11:09:18 #
When I took this photo it was quite late in the afternoon Camera canon EOS 6D, Canon E 500mmf/4L IS USM lens. My settings were 1/400@f4.5 -2/3, ISO 16000, shot in RAW. When I started processing I noticed a blue tint on the bears fur. I played around in LR 4 with the blue and reduced saturation and removed he blue tint. Added Some temp and got what I think is the true color of the black bears fur.
Nov 22, 2013 12:08:38 #
You got the color right, at least based upon the black bears I've seen around here, but those eyes are devoid of life.
Nov 22, 2013 12:20:56 #
Bushpilot wrote:
You got the color right, at least based upon the black bears I've seen around here, but those eyes are devoid of life.
To me, those are the eyes of a carnivore, that thinks nothing of ending a life so that s/he can have 'lunch' - cold, calculating and unemotional - downright chilling to look at, and s/he is looking at YOU, and sizing you up as a possible dinner.
Did you, by any chance, crop of the hind end of the bear - I would have liked it better if the whole critter was in the photo.
Nov 22, 2013 12:37:41 #
Nov 22, 2013 12:47:45 #
Nov 22, 2013 12:49:52 #
rstrick2 wrote:
actually this bear photo was taken in Cades Cove, Smokey Mountains
The are always so curious!
Nov 22, 2013 12:55:25 #
When you say there was a blue tint to his fur, are you implying that the bear had cheap black die job done to hide his age as is often done in the human race. LOL
Nov 22, 2013 12:56:25 #
Bill Houghton wrote:
When you say there was a blue tint to his fur, are you implying that the bear had cheap black die job done to hide his age as is often done in the human race. LOL
Old lady hair...
Nov 22, 2013 13:12:14 #
Now now Stv, let use not go that way. LOL I was actually in referral to men. I had a guy who worked from me, he would use magic markers, LOL,,, You should have seen his eye brows. LOL.. to this day I wonder if he ever looked in a mirror.
Nov 22, 2013 13:18:03 #
Bill Houghton wrote:
Now now Stv, let use not go that way. LOL I was actually in referral to men. I had a guy who worked from me, he would use magic markers, LOL,,, You should have seen his eye brows. LOL.. to this day I wonder if he ever looked in a mirror.
Laughing!!!
Nov 22, 2013 22:39:14 #
I wish I could down load this and get a better look at it. As it is your composition is off. You have the bears eyes in the center of the picture, which works occasionally here I don't think it does. I think if you played around with the crop you could come up with something that would greatly improve the impact of this photo. I would crop the bear right behind his front legs, unless you have the whole bear, and I would lose some of the grass on the right side.
From the thumbnail it is impossible to tell if the focus is on his eyes or not.
No matter what just getting this shot has to have been exciting.
From the thumbnail it is impossible to tell if the focus is on his eyes or not.
No matter what just getting this shot has to have been exciting.
Nov 22, 2013 22:41:10 #
Bill Houghton wrote:
Now now Stv, let use not go that way. LOL I was actually in referral to men. I had a guy who worked from me, he would use magic markers, LOL,,, You should have seen his eye brows. LOL.. to this day I wonder if he ever looked in a mirror.
Ok you guys back on topic. Lets see a critique that is helpful. :-D
Nov 23, 2013 06:57:01 #
rstrick2 wrote:
When I took this photo it was quite late in the afternoon Camera canon EOS 6D, Canon E 500mmf/4L IS USM lens. My settings were 1/400@f4.5 -2/3, ISO 16000, shot in RAW. When I started processing I noticed a blue tint on the bears fur. I played around in LR 4 with the blue and reduced saturation and removed he blue tint. Added Some temp and got what I think is the true color of the black bears fur.
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lotsa possibly inconsequential personal opinion alert !?
lotsa possibly inconsequential personal opinion alert !?
Something there is that doesn't feel right about a view DOWNWARD on a fearsome predator or almost any other dangerous or powerful being....
Right?
Don't they really need / deserve to be looked UP at?...or at least viewed from eye level?
Well...now that we have that settled, I suggest a close crop that reduces or eliminates that sense of looking down at the bear. To wit, crop close to the head so that here are no cues from the body view that it is definitely below our camera's position. Thus cropped, the bear might seem to be gazing at us from eye level, BUT...with its head lowered, sort of inspecting us by "looking over its glasses" as it were.
If this makes sense to any one, please let me know. Having wakened from a rather fitful sleep only minutes ago the waking fog is far from being lifted!
If it makes no sense, the words of Emily Latella apply: " Never mind!"
Dave in SD
Nov 23, 2013 11:33:02 #
Like several others I don't like the crop. Either add the entire rear end (which based on the comments I guess you don't have on the original) or move the crop to the shoulder. You seem to have done a good job with the color.
If the eyes seem too flat in the original you could use the paint brush tool and carefully lighten them a little bit--just use the exposure slider. I also agree that this would be much better if shot at eye level rather than downward.
If the eyes seem too flat in the original you could use the paint brush tool and carefully lighten them a little bit--just use the exposure slider. I also agree that this would be much better if shot at eye level rather than downward.
Nov 24, 2013 16:43:41 #
rstrick2 wrote:
When I took this photo it was quite late in the afternoon Camera canon EOS 6D, Canon E 500mmf/4L IS USM lens. My settings were 1/400@f4.5 -2/3, ISO 16000, shot in RAW. When I started processing I noticed a blue tint on the bears fur. I played around in LR 4 with the blue and reduced saturation and removed he blue tint. Added Some temp and got what I think is the true color of the black bears fur.
This a re-post of some of your suggestions, You all have to remember that this photo was a spear of the moment, the bear was moving I had to much lens and I was on a bank, he was down near the creek, it was impossible to get eye. It was bad being down there with bear anyway. I was thinking more about my getting out if he can much closer think
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