nanaval wrote:
Great composite, the only thing I would say is that the bear needs to look as though it is on the snow father than floating. I would have made a duplicate of the background above the bear and with a mask masked out the bear but made it look as though its two feet were in the snow and the other two with a very slight shadow under them and made some footprints behind it.
Interesting point. I have had some long conversations about the bear's feet AND leaving footprints. The last time I worked on this image was to place footprints at the rear feet; I guess I should have done better. Since you brought it up, I think I may take another crack at it. BTW, feel free to work on it if you want to but I would appreciate if you only worked on the feet - leave the rest of the image as is (leave the bear where he is, don't change the exposure, etc.). Thank you for your very pertinent comments, I really appreciate hearing from people who can see ways to improve weaknesses in the image.