stephen.schwartz

This photo, like my others is of a wild grizzly in northern British

Columbia. Thanks for any comments.

1DMkIII, Full frame, 600mm F4, Wimberly head, Gitzo tripod Thanks for

any comments.

This girl had 3 cubs with her. She lead them up river, past my friend and I. The truck doors were open but she simply kept a wary eye out and slowly walked past, cubs in tow and never even glanced back. Thanks for any comments.

I think what is troubling you about the ridges is that they could lead the eye into the out of focus space around the fox. The secondary ridge in the left background nicely provides a parallel diagonal which is helpful but there is a fairly large percentage of the photo that might take away from the fox. However some of the background is necessary because part of what makes this photo is that it includes the fox's environment.

 

Bottom line is you might try a couple versions, perhaps cropping the left edge near the S in your last name and the top to just above or where the secondary background ridge on left meets the skyline or thereabouts.

 

You should also be able to punch up the luminance in the fox to make it stand out from the background a touch more.

 

Anyway it is already an outstanding photo and I don't mean to be critical of it at all.

 

 

you might level the horizon.

I agree that this is an outstanding shot - the detail in the moss and overall composition is excellent. There is something odd going on with perspective though. When I first looked at it it seemed to me that the line through the middle of the frame which is made of the surface of the pool of water at the bottom of the upper falls should have been horizontal. On the other hand, it makes sense that the longer waterfalls are vertical which they are.

 

I have the same 16-35mm lens this was shot with and find that it distorts a bit more than my very old nikon 15mm used to do but I'm not sure that is it.

 

Lovely shot either way.

This is a cropped and slightly edited version of a photo I posted a

while ago. Hopefully it works a bit better. Thanks for looking.

Outstanding

Nice feeling of motion in the image, and some nice frozen motion in the water at foreground left yielding good overall composition. I agree with comments above about the sticky tape. If the tape was used to hold it in place for scanning, find a better way. If it was added as an "effect" it doesn't work with this subject in my view. Overall colour tint to the image doesn't do a lot for me - you might try it as a black and white as an experiment.

Wild grizzly bear hunting for salmon in river. Image views better in

"larger" mode. Thanks for looking.

This 1 year cub was working his (her?) way downstream a fair way apart

from mom looking for salmon in the river.

I spent a fair while watching these bears. Unfortunately they were

far away and I was forced to use the 600mm + a 1.4 TC. The light was

flat and it was raining lightly. Worse yet, the bears spent most of

the time with their rear ends toward me or their heads down eating

salmon. I finally resorted to making a grunt (remember - I said they

were a long way off) and they lifted their heads and looked around.

 

This views better in "larger"

Thanks for the comments.

 

I don't know if they are clouds or noise (doesn't look like noise to me) but it would be easy to remove them. As for the watermark, I realize that it isn't particularly attractive and I also realize that it doesn't offer much protection but there have been a number of piracy issues from this website so for the legal reasons I'm keeping the copyright logo even if it costs me some ratings. I will go back and look at the original and if it is noise I'll zap it and possibly repost.

OK - so this is one of the most often photographed structures in the

world. Hopefully this is a bit of a different view.

 

Thanks for looking.

This was a difficult exposure. The interior light was dim and very

yellow because of all of the gold leaf used inside. No tripods were

allowed, and the only light source was of course the stained glass

windows themselves. I used Lightroom and CS3 to try to get the mood

of the place . . .

 

Comments appreciated.

This lovely church had a magical quality. The gold leaf filled the

interior with gold light, while the ceiling was a magnificent blue.

As I played with the image in Lightroom and CS3 it began to take on a

quality of its own. I'd like to hear whether it works for you or not

. . .

 

Thanks for looking.

Looking up the stairwell inside the Arc de Triomphe.

Finally caught this little guy in flight with wings frozen - and his

tongue out. Thanks for looking.

I'd would appreciate any comments - especially any preference as to

which image people prefer - this one or the one of the same bear

resting his head on his paws.

Kids skipping stones on McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park,

Montana. Please view in "Larger" and thanks for looking

A lone, adult male Grizzly. Thanks for looking.

This was taken at the same location as my grizzly photos, in fact

there were grizzlies just out of the frame above. Please view

in "Larger" and thanks for looking

Jeff I see that you managed to grab a fabulous shot without our having met for coffee.

 

Well done!

When I first saw these owls, they were sitting as shown. I returned

a couple weeks later for this shot, but they were sitting too far

apart for a single image. I created a photo-merge using two

vertical images and left out about 5 feet of rafter that separated

them to bring them into the positions they were in when I first saw

them.

 

Please view in "larger" and thanks for looking.

This little guy's parents chose to relocate their nest, as they

sometimes do. They called to the chicks, and lead them through our

campsite to a new nest in the grass right on the edge of our camp.

 

Taken from almost exactly the same spot as my photo of the moose and

calf.

 

Please view "larger" and thanks for looking.