Motif: European brown bear

Posted by DC on Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:46 pm

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EOS3, 500 F4L IS + 1.4xTCII, Provia, full frame
European Brown Bear
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Here's my version of the Brown Bear Shake

Comments welcome and thanks for looking.

Dave
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by Dennis Olivero on Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:14 pm

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Excellent. Eye shine, face amazingly sharp and great twist of the head with water flinging everywhere.. Amazing.. Dave, where you in a boat when you made this image...you appear pretty low or is that just apparent from the 500? Cool shot and thanks for contributing here..

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by Harvey Edelman on Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:44 pm

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This is truly an excellent shot. My one small nit is I'd like the right side of the frame to have the neagtive space but I'm sure this all occurred very quickly.

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:40 pm

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Very cool! Love the water!

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by NDCheryl on Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:05 pm

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I love it Dave. Amazing amount of the bear still in focus while the rest is rotating. Way cool.

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by Michael Brown on Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:05 pm

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Now this, .............................. is way to cool!!!

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by Tim Grams on Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:47 pm

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Good shot- I like how yours is more off center than mine. Same action, but certainly a very different picture. Bears are sure a lot of fun to watch!

Was this during that notorious hot spell that gripped Europe for so long?

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by DC on Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:53 am

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Tim Grams wrote: Was this during that notorious hot spell that gripped Europe for so long?

It certainly was

It's the only time I've seen the bears actually doing anything interesting, other than sleeping or eating. He spent a while playing in the water before submerging to get under a tree limb. I just knew he was going to do this when he came up, but knowing where he was going to come up was a guess. I was nearly right

Dennis - the enclosure is about twenty feet or so below the walkway and the pond is roughly 50 feet away. I'd guess the angle is lost because of the distance to subject.

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by T Williams on Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:17 am

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Very good, Dave! I like how most of his face is sharp, with blur all around. I don't mind the open space being on the left, somehow this seems balanced the way it is.

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by Rich S on Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:26 am

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Very nice job to be prepared to capture this. Dennis mentioned the low angle; love that you've even got a catchlight in the left eye. I really like the contrast of the spray and the calm water right in front.

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by Bill Keown on Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:16 pm

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Very cool shot. The focus and catchlight in the eye is great. I wonder if animal have the ability to keep the eye in one spot while shaking the rest of the head and body??

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