The picture I’m most proud of this week is of Scrappy. This dog certainly has a personality of his own. He sat great for me. Most of the other dogs needed some extra attention then sat. Scrappy sat right away click click; I had two great pictures. Then just as I was leaving…zing! He ran out and escaped. Scrappy certainly had an enjoyable time running around outside. To describe the dog area again, each dog has two areas he/she can be in (inside and outside). The inside area is generally too small for me to get a picture so I tend to stay on the outside. All the outside kennels overlook a grassy area. In this grass area is a gated region where each dog will spend 15 minutes a day in “free time.” When Scrappy got out, he approached the dogs in free time and started to play with them through the fence which caused much commotion and all the other dogs started to bark. After Scrappy was put on a leech and escorted back to his kennel. The shelter worker informed me, Scrappy is a very smart dog who rarely listens to anyone. Scrappy has been at the OBX Animal Shelter since Christmas. Just last week he had a break through learning experience: Scrappy will now walk next to the shelter workers on a leech without biting. This is my picture I’m most proud of this week because after the escaping dog incident; I just wanted to be done for the day but Scrappy wanted to play. So that encouraged me to stay even though I was very embarrassed he had gotten out. This dog deserves a good home. He is very smart, clever and very fast.
Scrappy is a beautiful animal. I also had a pup get loose this week...quite exciting, huh? I have been shooting indoors and the room I spent the most time in this week had yellow walls so I had to adjust every picture for the yellow that reflected on the animal. I can't see where you are at with Scrappy, but am wondering if some of the wall color is reflected in his fur. The color correcting technique we learned helped a great deal in my images.
ReplyDelete@Karen, Thanks for the tip :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kennel description. It helps. Very smart doggie.
ReplyDeleteI see what you were talking about with the mixed light situation. This image works particularly well, but I can see the trouble you might be running into. My advice is to do your best with getting a "good exposure" for the face. Then in Photoshop, we will dodge the shadow area, and burn the highlights to provide somewhat more even lighting. Let me know if that technique works. The key will be to get a good exposure. Make sure your highlights are not blown out in the image. We can pull out shadows in digital, but if the highlights are gone, we cannot bring them back (unless we are using RAW files).
@Professor Johnstone, I will try this and let you know how it goes. Thank you!
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