Brown Bear in light.

Picture taken with 1D MK2n 500mm F4 lens 1/3200 F4 ISO 1000. All comments welcomed

Beautiful John, really beautiful..

Such an excellent pose and expression.

A lot of the bear shots i've seen tend to be more "sterile captures" but this is in a different league.

nice high contrast shot. To echo Tim, excellent pose and expression.

well captured

Colin

Lovely use of shadow and light John

For me it begs a lot of empty black space to the left 'a la DPS' - but "as is" it's a striking image - nice!!

Great light on this bear John. I am not sure about the o.o.f blob in the left hand corner.
Rene de Heer

Hi John
This image has some real atmosphere one of my favorite subjects, beautiful light.

the lighting is excellent and frames the bear very well. A nice shot.

Matt

Love the lighting on this one John the subjects not bad either.
Just curious re your settings?

Major.

Very different and effective shot.
I wondered about the shutter speed too?
Cheers
JohnR

DOH

I misread the title


Still an excellent shot even though its not flying





Ian

Hi Folks, thanks for your comments. When I looked at my settings I could not believe it but it is right. The shot I took 4 mins. before was 1/80 sec. F5 ISO 1000. I was shooting bears in a wood from a hide at 7.30pm and the light was very poor then I noticed this bear further back with a shaft of light on it and luckily I swung my lens round quickly and got the shot only one picture and the light was gone.

Stunning shot!
Love it!

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Excellent lighting, exposure and comp. A suberb image, you certainly made the most of your brief opportunity.

John Lee

Exquisite shot, the lighting is superb and the pose is fantastic. My one nit is the out of focus thing in the bottom left, you could, dare I say it, clone it out, it wouldn't need too much really just the lighter areas and blending at the edge. Then it would be perfect!

Well seen, and well taken!!

Hi Folks thanks for your comments and Dawn you can comment on my pictures any time

Quite outstanding, in all respects. Can say no more.

Brilliant shot, the pose, expression and use of light and shade is fab here. One to be extremely proud of

Beautiful shot. Nice pose and great lighting

Sandra

Excellent use of light to produce a stunning image.

Hi John

Different image of Brown Bear than we normally see - I like it!

David

Absolutely amazing shot.

Well done. I agree about the left corner but that's quite easy to solve I think.

Edwin Kats

Great atmosphere and a very good image.

Phil.