self-indulgent pet photos

explody pup · Apr 17, 2004

My Buck. My Brother.

Winston aka Winchester aka Peanut

photobug · Apr 17, 2004

Hehe, judging by the color of them chin hairs they could be my brothers! :lol:

Lungfarmer · Apr 17, 2004

Awww

Those are so great, and cute!

c0ntr0lz · Apr 17, 2004

great shots and very pretty dags(Snatch Joke)
details please...

explody pup · Apr 18, 2004

c0ntr0lz said:
details please...

Pentax K1000 w/ the stock 50mm lens and ISO 400.
Still struggling with DOF.

c0ntr0lz · Apr 18, 2004

nah i think the DOF is great

manda · Apr 18, 2004

no way
the DOF is awesome
these are gorgeous pet pics!!!
lovely lighting

Big Mike · Apr 19, 2004

Great looking dawgs. You captured a lot of personality in these shots.

It looks like you have some great window lighting there...maybe your could try changing positions to that you are not getting the windows in the frame. The shot with the black lab is about the harshest contrast situation...even with the background most of the way blown out...there is still very little shadow detail. Turn it around with the light on his face...then you will have a real winner.

wwjoeld · Apr 19, 2004

i think these are the first good pet pics, i have seen, and this forum is overrun with them.

great photo,

i love the 2nd one

Lula · Apr 20, 2004

So Cute
Beautiful dogs ..... great :camera:

explody pup · Apr 21, 2004

Wow. Thanks for the responses.

The DOF struggle I'm referring to is the usual "I have no idea what I'm going to get" thing, so if it turns out good 90% of it is due to luck.

Yeah, the backlighting on the first photo was a problem. I would have gone other other direction and used the window as front lighting, but there was a bunch of furniture and a huge open space that would have been a distracting background so I decided to risk it with the big contrast between Buck and the window. I'm pretty happy with the large black/white contrast in that picture, despite the loss of some detail.