Harlequin Bear

[Robert Hofstra]

One of my five sisters is somewhat known in the model bear world. This week she was very busy with a Bear fair in Germany this weekend, where she introduce her first "make your own" bear.
Monday evening we had time for a photo shoot.
After 10 or so backgrounds and God know how many poses,we found the very first shot i made to be the best.

This is him.

Second best (for its background)

 

[Mich56]

Agree first shot is best

 

[Sir SR]

Hi

Prefer the first, but something doesn't sit right with the pose/angle of shot in my humble opinion - the feet look bigger than the head. Also I wonder whether a slightly shallower depth of field and stronger focus on the eyes might have been better. I randomly shot a large teddy bear recently and found it hard to get a pose where the feet didn't look enormous!

S

 

[Robert Hofstra]

The feet are rather big indeed.It is one the signatures that make the bear a "Beaut Bear"
Each bearmaker has its own signature.Real bear connaiseurs can see on thing like the nose ,feet or fabric who made the bear.
At first i even thought about making the feet look even bigger by using the 14-24mm.
Like you mentioned.Even a bear can take the wrong pose.Thank God my sister knows what the best pose for a bear is.so all i had to do was do Click!

 

[Sir SR]

Fair enough - I'm no expert but just know what's appealing to my own eye! Luckily you had a teddy posing expert!!

I wonder whether having the bear "sat on something might have helped? I think thats what I decided on when I was messing around with an xmas teddy?

Game of His Own - Christmas is coming! (Brenizer Test 3) by Sir SR, on Flickr