I took this pic in big bear but i don't really like it. I think it's becasue of that discusting dirty snow in the front and i didn't want to crop it. Anyway my friends like it but I don't. Your opionons and suggestions?

 

Its not bad man. cant help dirty snow. haha. Snow is definitely not the easiest thing to photograph

 

wheres the bear??? i wanted to see a big bear and give my opinion on it

 

^

 

i was comin in expecting a pic of a brown bear or something

 

eh its kinda big. thats cool that he rides a bike tho. go green

 

It doesn't look like he likes those prostate-crushing seats any better than us humans.

 

he almost looks like he would thinking to himself "Good god! this thing is gonna go right up my a*s"

 

Nice Pix
I love Big Bear!

 

"...I'm bearly going to fit on this thing."

 

ROFL hahahaha. man you must be as bored as i am. thats a good one "bearly"

 

or hes picking it up to see if it can BEAR his weight ohahaha

 

don't tell joe rogan

 

Agreed, the dirty snow kills the pic.

Is the snow dirty because
1) it's actually dirty
2) it's underexposed
3) it's a side effect of HDR process
?

Actually, I think even if the snow was virginally pure, it would detract from the picture.

I think you would have done better if you had taken 2 or 3 steps forward and shot just past that snow bank. It also doesn't help that the snow is not in focus, perhaps if your DOF had been a bit larger, it may have helped.

Sometimes, things just can't be saved in photoshop. Composition at the time of taking the shot still counts.

 

• too much contrast from tone mapping
• take landscape pictures at dawn or dusk instead of midday overcast
• the bank of dirty snow in the foreground doesn't add anything to the overall picture

 

crop it out - nice photo. take more.

 

i think it looks pretty sweeet.