Cub on the beach

Posted by Andrew Mc on Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:06 am

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Been a while since I've posted any images, but recently was fortunate enough to take a tour to Silver Salmon Creek in Alaska with D. Robert Franz. This one was taken on the beach, where the cubs were out with their mother digging for clams (well, they were trying...).

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by Carol Clarke on Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:51 pm

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Nice action and a sweet cub Andrew, more room all around would be better and I'm not sure leaving the hind feet of the other bear in the frame adds anything in this instance.

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by Andrew Mc on Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:57 am

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Carol Clarke wrote:Nice action and a sweet cub Andrew, more room all around would be better and I'm not sure leaving the hind feet of the other bear in the frame adds anything in this instance.

I agree Carol, however this is full frame already - they came up on us very quickly. I would have liked to remove those hind feet, but short of cloning it out, I don't have many options

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by Carol Clarke on Fri Aug 19, 2016 3:11 pm

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Andrew Mc wrote:
Carol Clarke wrote:Nice action and a sweet cub Andrew, more room all around would be better and I'm not sure leaving the hind feet of the other bear in the frame adds anything in this instance.

I agree Carol, however this is full frame already - they came up on us very quickly. I would have liked to remove those hind feet, but short of cloning it out, I don't have many options .

I can feel your dilemma Andrew. If only we could orchestrate the actions of the wildlife we love to photograph then we wouldn't have to worry - but then again the excitement and anticipation would be missing too!

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by D. Robert Franz on Sat Aug 20, 2016 8:50 am

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Hi Andrew,

Remember this well.. Like the leg position of the cub. These things happen fast and perhaps zooming out and getting both cubs in frame would have helped or a cloning job to remove the other bear. But then you never know I had a gentleman on capture an image on my winter Yellowstone tour a few years back win in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the year contest with a leaping red fox that jumped out of his framing and you could only see it's feet and nose in the top of the frame?????

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by Cindy Marple on Sat Aug 20, 2016 2:26 pm

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That's one small cub, so cute! Nice pose captured and lots of good fur detail. I had a similar experience with a cub and mama coming at us, at some point I had to stop shooting and watch because I didn't have a zoom and couldn't back up to be able to get whole bear(s) in the image.

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by Robert Sabin on Sun Aug 21, 2016 6:28 pm

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Carol Clarke wrote:Nice action and a sweet cub Andrew, more room all around would be better and I'm not sure leaving the hind feet of the other bear in the frame adds anything in this instance.

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