Bear-Wars.jpg
by Kelli

Comment by ShutterPug:
I love this shot!

Dirty Pond Crisis (A documentary on the effects of water pollution on fish)
by Kelli

Comment by tngrndream:
would have liked to see dead fish maybe. not little fishies that seem to be doing ok.

Bear-Wars.jpg
by Kelli

Comment by alfresco:
Very nice capture!!

Dirty Pond Crisis (A documentary on the effects of water pollution on fish)
by Kelli

Comment by aeda:
very cool. love the title,

Let sleeping bears lie...or else!
by Kelli

Comment by ericwoo:
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Crop, crop, crop. You captured an awesome expression, and fit the challenge perfectly. Maybe shifting your position around to avaoid some of that green would have helped more.

Let sleeping bears lie...or else!
by Kelli

Comment by kirsty_mcn:
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As I'm sure everyone's pointed out, the background does hurt this entry - but you probably couldn't avoid it. He's got a great expression, meets challenge well (with a bit of license with the bears lol, but that doesn't bother me. The composition works fine for me, although possibly a little tight on the left hand side. (of course i don't know what was out there though)

I think this could do with a touch more contrast and a tiny bit of sharpening to make it less "zoo snapshot"-ey. When entering zoo shots you are in danger of people being turned off - imho you need a bit more 'punch' to make more of an impact.

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by Kelli

Comment by kirsty_mcn:
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sorry, just realised I missed this one - thought I'd done you after your photojournalism.

I really like this one - very fun. Definitely deserved more than a 4.7 in my book.
The composition is perfect, and the timing/expression great. I think all it needs to really boost its score is some careful postprocessing - a touch more saturation, and Unsharp Mask.

Actually, I found the PP a lot harder than I imagined...here's my attempt, marginally different to yours. Made the most of advanced editing:

messed about with levels manually
darkened yellowy greens with hue/sat and eyedropper on trees, tweaked blue
selected camel, copy into new layer
adjusted levels a bit, upped saturation, applied USM (camel layer)
applied gaussian blur, 0.5px to background layer, darkened b/g layer with levels

Just my take on it, not saying its "better" or even "more dpc", just interesting to see how other people interpret the same image.

PS - interesting to notice, my PS elements gives a different result with auto-levels than what you had.

Message edited by author 2006-05-14 14:58:15.

Let sleeping bears lie...or else!
by Kelli

Comment by Melethia:
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Heh! You seem to do really well with the humorous pictures! Great shot to go with the caption/title. Biggest problem is the fence top behind the bear which is blown and pulls the eye away from the bear. A tighter crop keeping the log just beyond his foot "whole" would compensate a bit. The expression you captured is priceless!

Let sleeping bears lie...or else!
by Kelli

Comment by nards656:
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Again, that big horizontal line hurts you. I like this shot, and I like the bear's expression. I'm not "anti zoo shot", I just like to see really well done zoo shots. You've come very close here. A tighter crop, I think, would have been an improvement.

Careful, I spit
by Kelli

Comment by nards656:
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This is funny, but it does come across a bit snapshotty. Since there's no context, the horizontal line of the trees cutting his head in half is sort of distracting.

All my opinion :)