Vantage Point

Just returned from this year's Japan workshops. Still have to move allthe images from my laptop to my home computer, so no Japan images topost here yet...

This is the third image from my brown bear series in NationalGeographic (Dutch edition), which was used as the opening shot for thearticle. This young bear cub rocketed up a tree when it heard anotherbear approaching. The obvious choice here was to make a verticalcomposition to emphasize the vertical direction and the height of thetrees, but I preferred to use the different layers of tree trunks incombination with shallow dof.

Nikon D3, AF-S VR 200-400/4.0, 1/250 @ f/4.0, ISO 1600, bean bag

 

Lovely capture. What did you do to him to scare him out of his wits like that.

Beautiful capture, thank you for the very informative technical details.

Greetings from Portugal

:)

Marsel, I enjoyed your wildlife photo of the young bear up in a tree. well done. I was out in the woods this past weekend in northern Minnesota (USA) and came accross a Black bear in its Den with its cub by its side as it continues to hibernate. We also have a wild Black Bear sanctuary I enjoy to go see in the summer for some photos. once again, great photo you have. Take care.

The vertical lines create an excellent composittion! I would love to see "more" of the bear but as we know they rarely become cooperative. In summary I like the artistic perspective of your framing and the warm colors as well. Regards from Greece, Teo

Good choice on the crop, the tree's really add a lot to the shot

fabulous!!

Superb image Marsel! Excellent composition, and exposure.

All the best,

Neil

Fun shot and nice use of dof. It you have more image top and bottom I think a more vertical crop might be even better.

Beautiful shot; nice clear detail on the bear and tree. I love the bear's expression. Really lovely and fun to view! Thank you for sharing. :)