Winter Bison

Gallery: WildlifePosted September 20, 2016276 views11 comments

During my winter Yellowstone tour earlier this year, we were fortunate to catch a herd of bison as they wandered through Midway Geyser Basin. I played around with different compositions and both color and monochrome processing, but particularly liked how the steam, trees and silhouettes looked in black and white for this one.

Canon 7D Mark II
Canon 100-400mm
ISO 200
1/2000th
f/9

Max

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11 comments

Comment posted by Kathy Barnhart on September 20, 2016 at 12:43 PM

Lovely light and silhouettes. B and W was a great choice here, this is such a wonderfully elemental image. Steam, snow, bison, great light. Couldn't be better!

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on September 20, 2016 at 2:30 PM

I like the composition and it looks great in black and white.

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Comment posted by Clinton Bauder on September 20, 2016 at 4:10 PM

Fantastic. Great tone on this image.

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Clinton

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Comment posted by Ralph Kerr on September 20, 2016 at 10:43 PM

Max, I like this B&W image, particularly the brighter ridge and trees above the bison. It draws my eye away from the bison, but then the bison draw my eye back to them. Does that make sense? Anyway, a great photo.

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on September 21, 2016 at 8:52 AM

Terrific frame, very nicely executed!
It has so many winning elements, works very well in B&W>
Jagdeep Rajput devil

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on September 22, 2016 at 9:44 PM

The exposure of the snow looks perfect and my eye keeps admiring the quality of the detail on the background slope. This could be a fine B&W landscape that just happened to have bison well located as an interest point! enlightened

Excellent capture.

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Comment posted by Doug Koepsel on September 22, 2016 at 10:31 PM

I like how the deep black of the bison make them stand out in the scene. B&W seems to be a good choice for the image with a good range of tone and contrast

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on September 23, 2016 at 4:58 PM

Beautiful shot Max, great comp and the black and white works so well here. devil

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Comment posted by Mario Moreno on September 24, 2016 at 11:53 AM

For me this works in monochrome . . . Awesome images Max !! <div id="myEventWatcherDiv" style="display:none;"> </div>

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on September 24, 2016 at 4:46 PM

This is a beauty, Max. Going b&w really lets the various shapes and brightness dominate the image. I really like how the bright hillside sets off the small pines and how that contrasts with the black bison in the rising mist. Haven't these critters read the sign about staying on the board walk.... enlightened

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on September 26, 2016 at 6:19 AM

Just a fabulous shot my friend, my kind of image!

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