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<blockquote data-quote="Red Rover" data-source="post: 66768" data-attributes="member: 10060"><p><strong>Portrait Of Working Dogs</strong></p><p></p><p>These are FEMA Search Dogs that my wife trains and handles. She also competes in Hunt Tests with them and they are posing here after a long day at a local test. I found a shallow "pond" created by heavy rains and threw some bumpers for them to retrieve. They are always up for play, especially if water is involved. It always brings a smile to their faces.It was late afternoon and the colors were really starting to come out. Recognizing what was happening I asked them to pose for me and, being the good dogs that they are, they obliged.I like how Fargo, in the middle, is looking right at the camera while Flash and Spirit are looking to the right at my wife. This was taken several years ago with my first DSLR, a D50 with 18-55 kit lens. This may have been adjusted with the auto enhance feature in PaintShop Pro, but I'm not sure. I'm just now trying to learn how to use advanced editing features.The shot is personal for me and a favorite. I like it for the colors of the dogs and the field in the late afternoon sun as well as the attentive energy my dogs bring to the shot.EDIT: The ISO was most likely 200 as that is the lowest in the D50 and I wasn't even aware of the ability to change it when I shot this (I know now). Would you have changed the ISO at the time based on the light conditions? What about the colors and exposure of the image post shot? I think the simple D50 did a decent job of balancing the light and dark dogs. Do the white dogs(really yellow Labs) have enough detail? I shot in a middle aperture because I wanted all three faces to be in focus. The middle dog was the point of focus. The dogs were momentarily "frozen" by my wife squeaking a toy so 1/160 seemed to work A squeaky toy is almost a must when trying to get one dog, let alone three, to sit still momentarily.Anyway, feedback appreciated. Thanks for this site. <table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Camera<br /> </th><td><a href="http://nikonites.com/cameras/nikon/d50/" target="_blank">Nikon D50</a><br /> </td></tr><tr><th>Exposure<br /> </th><td>0.006 sec (1/160)<br /> </td></tr><tr><th>Aperture<br /> </th><td>f/7.1<br /> </td></tr><tr><th>Focal Length<br /> </th><td>46 mm<br /> </td></tr></table><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/82701140@N03/7576613578/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/7576613578_bf78ba5e31_z.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/82701140@N03/7576613578/" target="_blank">Best Friends</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/82701140@N03/" target="_blank">Bois Dog</a>, on Flickr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Red Rover, post: 66768, member: 10060"] [b]Portrait Of Working Dogs[/b] These are FEMA Search Dogs that my wife trains and handles. She also competes in Hunt Tests with them and they are posing here after a long day at a local test. I found a shallow "pond" created by heavy rains and threw some bumpers for them to retrieve. They are always up for play, especially if water is involved. It always brings a smile to their faces.It was late afternoon and the colors were really starting to come out. Recognizing what was happening I asked them to pose for me and, being the good dogs that they are, they obliged.I like how Fargo, in the middle, is looking right at the camera while Flash and Spirit are looking to the right at my wife. This was taken several years ago with my first DSLR, a D50 with 18-55 kit lens. This may have been adjusted with the auto enhance feature in PaintShop Pro, but I'm not sure. I'm just now trying to learn how to use advanced editing features.The shot is personal for me and a favorite. I like it for the colors of the dogs and the field in the late afternoon sun as well as the attentive energy my dogs bring to the shot.EDIT: The ISO was most likely 200 as that is the lowest in the D50 and I wasn't even aware of the ability to change it when I shot this (I know now). Would you have changed the ISO at the time based on the light conditions? What about the colors and exposure of the image post shot? I think the simple D50 did a decent job of balancing the light and dark dogs. Do the white dogs(really yellow Labs) have enough detail? I shot in a middle aperture because I wanted all three faces to be in focus. The middle dog was the point of focus. The dogs were momentarily "frozen" by my wife squeaking a toy so 1/160 seemed to work A squeaky toy is almost a must when trying to get one dog, let alone three, to sit still momentarily.Anyway, feedback appreciated. Thanks for this site.[TABLE="width: 100%"] [TR="class: lookatme"] [TH]Camera [/TH] [TD][URL="http://nikonites.com/cameras/nikon/d50/"]Nikon D50[/URL] [/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: lookatme"] [TH]Exposure [/TH] [TD]0.006 sec (1/160) [/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: lookatme"] [TH]Aperture [/TH] [TD]f/7.1 [/TD] [/TR] [TR="class: lookatme"] [TH]Focal Length [/TH] [TD]46 mm [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/82701140@N03/7576613578/"][IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/7576613578_bf78ba5e31_z.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/82701140@N03/7576613578/"]Best Friends[/URL] by [URL="http://www.flickr.com/people/82701140@N03/"]Bois Dog[/URL], on Flickr [/QUOTE]
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