stephen.schwartz

Cow and calf moose taken from our campsite on lake in northern B.C.

They heard the camera shutter and ran off a second later.

 

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Thanks.

I am getting very tired of seeing people rate a photograph such as this one at 4/4.

 

As for originality - this is an eagle not a dog. They are rare and difficult to photograph unless it is perched in a tree. As for aesthetics - the photo speaks for itself.

 

I have a hard time thinking that any could honestly rate this as something less than outstanding. 7/7 by my calculation. I assume those who persistently rate such photos as 4/4 are trying to boost their own standings.

Anna's Hummingbird - taken in Vancouver at the extreme northern end

of its range. Thanks for looking

I agree - colour is intense and composition excellent. I suppose that the dandilions could be sharper but nothing to be done about that and it really doesn't detract from overall image. However the diagonal out of focus line upper left is distracting and could be easily cloned out in photoshop.

 

 

This lovely old stone church is in Orvietto, Italy. Thanks for

Looking.

Venice - Flowers, food, wine and water.

Take during the noon lunch break, in Venice, Italy. Thanks for

looking. Constructive comments appreciated.

This could be the shot of the year. The repetition and gradually descending angle of their bills is perfect. 7/7

I have done a lot of diving and have never seen a sailfish or any billfish in the water, (I have seen them from the dive boat on the way out). I thought the sail was a mating display so maybe this guy thought you were cute!

 

Anyway a flash would not likely have done much for you at this distance. One thing you might have tried was a magenta filter which would have colour balanced the image closer to daylight. I haven't much experience with that so I can't say it would have done so. If you shot this in raw you could custom colour balance and achieve much the same effect.

 

But the blues are part of the underwater world, as is the etherial feel of this shot.

 

Well done 7/7

Mt Assiniboine, right? Lovely light and mist.

Outstanding photo. I wonder if you could bring up a little more detail in the wing of the bird on the right? In any event it is a great shot.

One of a series of photos of wild grizzlies taken along a river in

northern British Columbia. The bears were fattening themselves on

salmon, and quite tolerant though generally wary of our presence.

very nice soft tones and excellent contrast with the sunglasses.

We had been photographing these bears for two days. At the end of

the second day this adult male grizzly came up from the river in the

bush along the side of the road. He evidently wanted to cross the

road but we were standing on the road. He was too full of salmon to

bother walking up the road and around us and didn't want to cross

while we were there. We didn't move, so he just lay down, put his

head on his paws, watched and waited.

 

Taken from a distance of about 20 feet. Heart thumping but

fortunately the lens had image stabilization.

 

Thanks for looking

wonderfully done. I'd like to see your workflow.

 

I didn't bring a tripod so I propped the camera on a rock, with

pebbles and filter cases to level it. I used whatever I had to

reduce the light levels - a conkin grad ND filter + a circular

polarizer to enable me to get a long enought time exposure for this

effect.

Nice capture. I saw a pair of mule deer battle it out to the death many years ago - at night and me without a camera at the time. If you like I think you could take the advice of the person above and spend a bit of photoshop time to bring up the exposure a bit. If it is a raw file it would work beautifully but you want to keep the subtle lighting too.

 

 

Thanks

 

Anyone care if I crop out the duck? The more I look at it the more i think this wants to be a vertical.

overall it's a lovely shot. the barnacles on the rock in the foreground give it a lighter overall colour than those in the mid and background. For me, and it is a personal thing only, I prefer the more somber tones of the background and distant rocks as being more in keeping with the overall mood. You might experiment with toning down the highlights in the foreground rock. Anyway it is certainly a lovely shot as is.

I don't think the Grizzly was actually looking at the duck - it just

seems to be doing so in the photo. I had thought of cropping the

duck out but for the time being I've left it in.

I was about 150-200 feet (50-70meters) with a 600mm f/4 Canon and a 1.4x teleconverter.

A grizzly bear cub in Northern British Columbia. It would be a

first year cub I think.

First year cub, in Northern B.C. Please see 'Larger' view.

This photo was taken in northern British Columbia. There were

several bears in the area, fattening themselves on salmon before the

winter. Thanks for looking and feel free to comment.

This was shot in northern British Columbia. The grizzlies are

feeding on salmon, fattening themselves up for the winter. There

were a few interesting interactions and a couple brief fights

between the cubs.