1194 pts · January 4, 2015
Thank you. I will post stories from the hides when I'm there.
Well these are selected from very large set of photos and are my best of the best so in these photos the bears are looking very good. That's not always the case. 😂 But just to give you an idea I have spent over 100 nights during the last 3 years in bear hides. So it's 1 good photo for every 10 days. 😅
That bird with messy feather is capercaillie if I can write that right. 😄
I get what you're saying. These are edited as all the photos that are taken in raw format should be. All the editing I do on these is just color balance, color correction and exposure adjustment including light and shadow balance. It might sound like a lot but it's a very basic adjustment that I have done on these. To Instagram I tend to edit my photos more because the platform just needs that to get any exposure there.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Being an artistic person really doesn't mean anything to me. As far as I'm concerned everyone is an artist in their own life and your opinion is as good as anyone elses. I think that most people that might buy my print would describe themselves just like you did.
I just love bears myself and I have been photographing them a lot during last 3 years. I'm going to wilderness again in few weeks to see how they are doing. I'm hoping to see some familiar faces there.
It does look like that. Maybe I should name it something like it.
Thank you and yes I have taken that into an account. These photos are uploaded here with online quality and short edge is only 1080 pixels. That's same quality I use on my instagram so copying them from here will only work well as wallpaper on your phone and that's totally fine to use them like that. For prints you need the max quality original photo.
Thank you so much of your kind words. I have such a strong feelings going on now after reading through these comments. I can't believe so many people have commented on this post. It blows my mind.
Thank you so much. That really means a world to me. I have appointment with the print company tomorrow so I need to do the final selection today. There are also some photos I didn't include here but these comments have given me ideas to what kind of pictures people general like.
Many of these photos were taken before "AI generated" was even a thing so I think it's more like AI generated look like these.
Joo Suomesta on nää tai ainakin valtaosa.
Fear of bears is something that disappears almost instantly when you have a chance to observe them in the wild. At least this is the case with brown bears we have in Finland. American grizzly is different. I once saw a bear spook himself out when he stepped on a branch and the cracking sound made him jump in the air and sprint back in the forest.
I used to watermark my photos in the past but I stopped doing it. Nowadays I just upload them with web quality 1080x1920. If someone would just copy it and trying to print he would have very crappy photo on his wall and if he's happy with that photo I don't think he would have been a possible buyer anyway.
Thank you. I got very lucky to get shot like these and it haven't occured ever since. This photo is basically uncropped (only a very minor adjustment was made) . It makes it possible to have so much texture in the fur, but what really makes it special to me is the bear itself. She looks very calm and in the middle of autumn colors almost like royalty. The real queen of the forest.
Yes indeed. That was the reason I made this post to get opinion from people who don't have any connection with me as a person or know anything behind these photos. To get very objective and real view of them as photographs. But you're right gallerist would be the best person to consult about it. I hope I will have change to do that in the future.
haha. This made me laugh.
This has been taken on top of Reinebringen mountain in Lofoten, Norway.
Isot kiitokset.
Most of the bear pictures I have taken with Sony 200-600mm f5,6-6,3. Few of them #8 and #9 were taken with Tamron 70-180 f2,8.
Se on napattu 600mm putkella Ukko-Kolilta. Tuo luoto näkyy sieltä hyvin.
The last one could be from slovenia yes but it's taken from italian alps not far from slovenia border.
Yes it is. Slovenia is such a beautiful country in general. I did a few weeks photography trip there a year ago.
yes I get what you're saying. I might crop some of them a little further but for high quality prints I don't want to crop them too much. This was one of my criteria when I was going through my photos. I only took in consideration the ones that I can use with minor or no cropping. But there is some room to crop still of course.
Thank you so much. The bear family with the reflection is one photo I'm very proud of.
Thank you very much. I know it's a hard road to walk and from prints I'm not expecting much income seriously. At least not at this point. I just think it would be cool to know that even few people that I don't know have photograph that I have taken on their wall.
Thank you. That's one of my favorite all time photos propably my favorite out of the bunch as well.
Thank you. I will post stories from the hides when I'm there.
Well these are selected from very large set of photos and are my best of the best so in these photos the bears are looking very good. That's not always the case. 😂 But just to give you an idea I have spent over 100 nights during the last 3 years in bear hides. So it's 1 good photo for every 10 days. 😅
That bird with messy feather is capercaillie if I can write that right. 😄
I get what you're saying. These are edited as all the photos that are taken in raw format should be. All the editing I do on these is just color balance, color correction and exposure adjustment including light and shadow balance. It might sound like a lot but it's a very basic adjustment that I have done on these. To Instagram I tend to edit my photos more because the platform just needs that to get any exposure there.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Being an artistic person really doesn't mean anything to me. As far as I'm concerned everyone is an artist in their own life and your opinion is as good as anyone elses. I think that most people that might buy my print would describe themselves just like you did.
I just love bears myself and I have been photographing them a lot during last 3 years. I'm going to wilderness again in few weeks to see how they are doing. I'm hoping to see some familiar faces there.
It does look like that. Maybe I should name it something like it.
Thank you and yes I have taken that into an account. These photos are uploaded here with online quality and short edge is only 1080 pixels. That's same quality I use on my instagram so copying them from here will only work well as wallpaper on your phone and that's totally fine to use them like that. For prints you need the max quality original photo.
Thank you so much of your kind words. I have such a strong feelings going on now after reading through these comments. I can't believe so many people have commented on this post. It blows my mind.
Thank you so much. That really means a world to me. I have appointment with the print company tomorrow so I need to do the final selection today. There are also some photos I didn't include here but these comments have given me ideas to what kind of pictures people general like.
Many of these photos were taken before "AI generated" was even a thing so I think it's more like AI generated look like these.
Joo Suomesta on nää tai ainakin valtaosa.
Fear of bears is something that disappears almost instantly when you have a chance to observe them in the wild. At least this is the case with brown bears we have in Finland. American grizzly is different. I once saw a bear spook himself out when he stepped on a branch and the cracking sound made him jump in the air and sprint back in the forest.
I used to watermark my photos in the past but I stopped doing it. Nowadays I just upload them with web quality 1080x1920. If someone would just copy it and trying to print he would have very crappy photo on his wall and if he's happy with that photo I don't think he would have been a possible buyer anyway.
Thank you. I got very lucky to get shot like these and it haven't occured ever since. This photo is basically uncropped (only a very minor adjustment was made) . It makes it possible to have so much texture in the fur, but what really makes it special to me is the bear itself. She looks very calm and in the middle of autumn colors almost like royalty. The real queen of the forest.
Yes indeed. That was the reason I made this post to get opinion from people who don't have any connection with me as a person or know anything behind these photos. To get very objective and real view of them as photographs. But you're right gallerist would be the best person to consult about it. I hope I will have change to do that in the future.
haha. This made me laugh.
This has been taken on top of Reinebringen mountain in Lofoten, Norway.
Isot kiitokset.
Most of the bear pictures I have taken with Sony 200-600mm f5,6-6,3. Few of them #8 and #9 were taken with Tamron 70-180 f2,8.
Se on napattu 600mm putkella Ukko-Kolilta. Tuo luoto näkyy sieltä hyvin.
The last one could be from slovenia yes but it's taken from italian alps not far from slovenia border.
Yes it is. Slovenia is such a beautiful country in general. I did a few weeks photography trip there a year ago.
yes I get what you're saying. I might crop some of them a little further but for high quality prints I don't want to crop them too much. This was one of my criteria when I was going through my photos. I only took in consideration the ones that I can use with minor or no cropping. But there is some room to crop still of course.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. The bear family with the reflection is one photo I'm very proud of.
Thank you very much. I know it's a hard road to walk and from prints I'm not expecting much income seriously. At least not at this point. I just think it would be cool to know that even few people that I don't know have photograph that I have taken on their wall.
Thank you. That's one of my favorite all time photos propably my favorite out of the bunch as well.