Brown bear walks along the beach of Naknek lake at dawn in Katmai National Park, southwest, Alaska. Canon 1Ds Mark III, 24-105mm f/4L IS, (35mm), 1/25 sec @ f/10, ISO 400
I’ve been digging through some files from that latter part of 2011, doing some clean up work and getting folders in a completed state. Occasionally I will shoot a series of images which are to be stitched into a larger file in post production. I do this for panoramas, and sometimes to increase the overall resolution due to focal length and/or scene restrictions. This is one of those made from four images. I was set up along the beach in Katmai National Park and knew that the bears make this morning journey. I missed a few chances for simply not being ready, but this time, I had set my focal length to 35mm, anticipating the basic composition of the bear. After I shot the series of the bear walking along, I kept the camera on the tripod and shot three images in a vertical direction, which includes the tree and sky. This affords a nice, high resolution file very suitable large publication.
Hey Patrick
This is sweet. Amazing it’s sharp for 1/25sec.
Cheers
Carl
Carl, just barely, the other three were soft. Should I have been at 800 or 1000 ISO? Of course! But this one squeaked by.
Amazing shot!
Love the light, siluett and background!
Have a nice weekend!
Regards!
Views/images like that make the early morning hours worth it. Great shot! Makes me look forward to heading back out there (that and the -20 degrees outside).
Great image and a very interesting process to achieve it. Regards
Emlyn
Hey folks, Thanks for the comments and taking the time to visit.
Hey Patrick
Yes, you should’ve been at 800 or 1000 .. next time you might wanna ask someone who knows about such things; if, of course, there happens to be someone like that around.
Hope you got and got some aurora tonight.
Cheers
Carl
Carl, I was looking for counsel on that subject, but you were the only other person around, so there was simply no one to ask. I’ll try to do better next time. As for the aurora, it was insanely windy in Fairbanks last night, and cloudy also.
Hey Patrick,
I hear ya – I don’t even think I was around; I was probably still sleeping, or sipping coffee or some such.
No aurora here, either. 10 days of bluebird days and the clouds rolled in yesterday afternoon. 🙁
Cheers
Carl