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Expose to the left
“We were lucky enough to be on the
Katmai peninsula when the bears were
hunting for salmon,’ writes Sue Hudson.
“Although I took many photos I keep
coming back to this one, despite its
somewhat dull background. I started
to realise it was the eyes that got me in.
Having said that, I tried to find ways to
give the eyes more life, but nothing I did in
Photoshop looked effective, or realistic.”
The most striking aspect of this shot
is that it is far too light, which is horribly
evident in that featureless, colour-free water
and spotty greenery in the background

• and that overexposure is a camera
  issue. It needed to be much darker and
  to do that you needed to use an exposure
  compensation setting of -1 EV to increase
  the shutter speed. This would help darken
  the shot and capture more colour and
  highlights in the water. However, the face
  and particularly the nose are nice and
  sharp, and the eyes even have a catch light,
  albeit small and not very bright. However,
  darkening the shot overall would darken
  the bear as well and give it even more
  oomph colour-wise.

SA I M A’S T I P: Overexposure tends to
diminish colour and take out detail in
lighter areas which is not easily remedied
in post-production, so shoot a little darker
rather than lighter.

TITLE: Bear on the lookout
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sue Hudson
DETAILS: Canon EOS 60D, 18-270mm
lens, 1/400s @ f/8, 1250 ISO, handheld.
Minor cloning, sharpening, cropping, and
vibrance adjustments.

Leading line

It was a beautiful sunny day when

Paul Nicholls was visiting relatives

near Busselton, so he decided to take a

scenic f light down the coast.

“This is just a different aspect to the

wharf than what you normally see,” he

says. This is a grand, sweeping view of

the jetty and at ground level it would

be difficult to depict its full length.

I also love the composition, with that

pier leading diagonally from corner to

corner in the frame. The differences

in water depth and colour also show

up nicely. All in all it works well. If you

wanted to get more in terms of colour,

you could use a polarising filter. You

would lose a couple of stops but the

tones would be much more intense.

SAIMA’S TIP: Polarising filters work

well with water scenes and can cut

out ref lections, thus intensifying the

colours in the scene.

TITLE: Busselton Jetty

PHOTOGRAPHER: Paul Nicholls

DETAILS: Nikon D600, Nikon 24-70

2.8VR lens @ 52mm, 1/1000s @ f5.6,

200 ISO,

AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY JUNE 2016