Chinese bear

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Chinese bear

Postby zafra52 on Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:11 pm

This picture comes from China. Just before climbing the Great Wall, I found there were wells with black bears begging apples from tourists. This one was a bit slow in catching them and kept missing the fruit, but he/she was very photogenic. I took the picture with an Olympus C750UZ in JPG format without a tripod. Other technical information: Focal Length 45 mm. Aperture F/3.2, Exposure 1/200sec. ISO-200. I sharpened the picture, re-sized and framed using Photoshop, and my new discovery photoshop's actions.

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Postby Geoff on Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:02 pm

Zafra - ease up on the number of frames and it'd be a REALLY beautiful shot. I think you've over done the new found skill of framing in PS :)

I also think this would look good as a nice B&W conversion.
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Postby Geoff on Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:04 pm

Zafra - ease up on the number of frames and it'd be a REALLY beautiful shot. I think you've over done the new found skill of framing in PS :)

I also think this would look good as a nice B&W conversion.
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Postby Alex on Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:07 pm

I agree with Geoff. Beautiful shot, but the frames are irritating.

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Postby macka on Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:11 pm

I think the original would have been quite nice, but I don't like the cut-out of the bear, it's made the edges fuzzy/glowing.
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Postby Big V on Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:15 pm

The frame has an error in it the left hand top corner as well, Yes I would like to see this as a BW conversion
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Postby zafra52 on Tue May 01, 2007 7:30 pm

Thank you for your comments and yest the framing was a touch overdone. Following you advice here it is the B&W image


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Postby macka on Tue May 01, 2007 7:53 pm

Much better! Nice shot. :D
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