Standing Tall

Gallery: WildlifePosted June 13, 2011220 views8 comments

This image was shot in the Khutzeymateen, after watching this mother and cubs for some time she started slowly walking toward the bush line. just before she entered the trees she turned around and stud up almost saying well nice meeting you guys ill see you later and walked into the bush.

In post i did not do to much to this image processed one lighter raw file for the bear and cub, masking with brush tool. brushing with about 15 percent opacity. small amount of the smart sharpen filter. cropped to make vertical image shot as landscape.

Data
1D mark IV
1/320
f4
ISO 400
Lens 400f2.8 is

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Darren Colello on June 13, 2011 at 12:15 PM

Shawn, Very nice behavioural image and two very beautiful individuals. It is an amazing place, is it not? Well done!!!

Registered on July 27, 2009, 175 Posts, 1100 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Hackley on June 13, 2011 at 3:56 PM

Interesting to see a bear standing up you really get a better idea of how big these bears are and those are very big claws, well done.

Registered on September 17, 2009, 302 Posts, 5535 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on June 13, 2011 at 4:09 PM

Very interesting positions. I do wish the top of the standing bears head did not blend into the BG as much as it does, but still a very impressive image. Thanks for sharing. Must be a great place to visit.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on June 13, 2011 at 9:40 PM

That's a great pose. I would like to see more of the details in the dark regions.

Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments

Comment posted by Shawn Turner on June 14, 2011 at 12:28 AM

Hey mark

Thanks for the comments on this image, I kept the background dark in this image but still have all the detail in and can be recovered if needed, this is how I saw the photo so I tried to match what I saw when doing post processing. But I'm very new at shooting wild life I think it's been all of a month and a half so far, so I have tons to learn and will always be learning.

Cheers
Shawn

Registered on June 5, 2011, 7 Posts, 19 Comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on June 15, 2011 at 8:16 AM

Hey Shawn,

Pose is great and you can certainly tell Ma is still nursing! The dark "jungle-like" background works well for me. I do think that both bears are very slightly darker than optimal and that some black-on-black (or "dark-on-dark") detail on the bears that would strengthen the image is missing. Note that I'm talking a very small amount - increasing the exposure of the bears too much here (like anything more than 1/2 stop or so) would definitely produce an "artificial" looking scene (i.e, almost like flash-fill was used). Choice to go vertical here was good and I think both the crop and positioning of the subjects within the frame works well.

Cheers...

Brad

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on June 16, 2011 at 12:16 AM

I think this is stunning Shawn, wouldn't change a thing. The dark background with hanging moss gives a glimpse of the shadowy world of the west coast rainforest where these bears exist. Great timing to catch the mother in the standing pose, too good!!! Were you shooting this scene with a smaller lens as well to show more habitat?

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Comment posted by Shawn Turner on June 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM

Hey Gary
Thanks for the comments on this image great to get all the feed back from the members.

In regards to shooting this scene with a shorter Len I didn't have time she stood up for all of a few seconds and just barley had the time to move focus points and frame the shot on the fly. Then she walked in the rain forest.

Cheers

Shawn

Registered on June 5, 2011, 7 Posts, 19 Comments