Butting Heads

[Steve Robinson]

I spent the last three days in Yellowstone. March went out like a lion with a heavy snowstorm on Tuesday. The weather improved on Wednesday and then deteriorated again on Thursday. I watched these two bulls go at it and caught a reasonable image. This is kind of a redo of a shot I took a couple of years ago that was not very well done. Canon 1D Mk II N + EF 400mm f/5.6, 1/1000s @ f/5.6, ISO 250. As always C&C is welcome and any suggestions about my watermark would also be appreciated.

Steve Robinson - Butting Heads
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[Asher Kelman]

Steve, you're getting good value for the money on your 400 f 5.6 lens and the extra x1.2 factor of the 1D Mark IIN.

Excellent action! You must have filled a CF/SD card in short time! This is a challenge as the dynamic range os so wide. Did you have to process twice and blend. This is like shooting a bridge and groom, LOL and you didn't destroy the white in exposing sufficiently for the dark coat of the buffalo. This would be a great picture to experiment with Bart and Cem's discovered, seemingly more natural), HDR software, here.

Asher

 

[Rachel Foster]

Great shot. Snow is particularly difficulty to shoot and the dark animals makes exposure even tougher. Nice job.

 

[Steve Robinson]

Thanks Asher and Rachel. It isn't HDR as I'm not up to speed on that just yet. I just played around with simple adjustments to highlights, shadows, and contrast in PSE7. This was a pretty quick job of PP on my laptop. Now I'll have to spend some time on the desktop doing a better job.