Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment by scales:
I didn't vote/comment on this challenge, but I imagine there will have been lots of standard DPC 'perfectionist' photos entered, so no doubt compared to these yours didn't fit in.

For me, if you take a bit of time to look at your image (admittedly not something I always do when voting), the motion blur really adds to the atmosphere, almost as if you can feel the ground shaking because of the strength of the bison. I quite like the processing you've done too - very bold especially if you've not done much editting before. I'm not so keen on the whiteness of the ground as I think it's a bit distracting, buit maybe you couldn't do much about this.

As you said in the comments, it was never going to score particularly highly, but I'd be proud of this if I'd produced it.

Imagine your lungs
by elee3009

Comment by Sammie:
This is s good picture for garbage. However, it looks oversharpened on my monitor. I think a little bit of "grunge" looks good for garbage but this seems like a bit too much.

Imagine your lungs
by elee3009

Comment by Mr_Pants:
Very bleak. A great reminder.

Imagine your lungs
by elee3009

Comment by arlanbart:
I like that there's an idea behind the image. Nice job.

Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment by Mary Ann Melton:
Hi, Eileen. It is hard (but not impossible) to get great shots from a moving car. In another setting (such as Yellowstone - which is where I thought this photo came from) using a tripod, setting your shutterspeed slow - and waiting for the "action" allows you to get the background sharp and your participants blurred. Or in reverse, setting your shutterspeed high and panning (following the subject with the camera and taking a sequence of shots) allows a nicely blurred background and your subjects sharp.

In terms of levels, at the menu bar on the top - there is a pulldown called layers. It is much easier to work and image and make changes when you do things like levels, curves, saturation, and selective color in layers. so you go to the layers pull down, where it says adjustment layer -choose levels or curves . . . . this will create a layer and allow that adjustment. Then you go to the window pulldown - and choose Layers. There is a little eye that you can click on and it will take away that layer so you can see the difference. You can also go back and make further adjustments to a given layer without regard to the order that you worked them. If you have more questions - feel free to PM me.

Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment by Mary Ann Melton:
This is a nice action shot with the buffalos butting heads - but I wish that the backgorund was not blurred and that the buffalos were the only thing motion blurred.

Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment by jillybean:
this just looks like a really badly focused picture.

Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment by aman:
WOW! its like a movie! Good Luck!

Dance of Great Bison Spirits
by elee3009

Comment by Jammur:
I can see the title, this does have a mystic quality to it

'Kopi Tiam' Nostalgia
by elee3009

Comment by Rikki:
I like the composition and crop of this image. I would have probably discarded that object at the upper left just behind the bowl. Seems a bit distracting. Aside from that, the colors and rendition of this image is wonderful.