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10 years 10 months ago #286151 by Don Fischer
I'm on a few site's for photography and none have a section for dog's. The outdoor sites I visit with photography section deal only in landscapes, flower's, sunset's and wild animals. My favorite subjects are pointing dogs. Comments would be nice but be easy on me!

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And action. These are people's favorites. nobody beside me does this out here.

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10 years 10 months ago #286162 by KCook
Nice timing on the running shots :thumbsup:
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10 years 10 months ago #286164 by Don Fischer
Thank you but, I don't time them. Camera gets set of focus tracking and the machine gun mode! Get about four shot's of each dog right in a row as fast as the camera can do it.
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10 years 10 months ago #286166 by Darrell
Last 5 pics: I would suggest using a larger aperture so as to have some of the background out of focus to allow the viewer's eyes to go to the the subject rather than the background . The dogs make great subjects...
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10 years 10 months ago - 10 years 10 months ago #286169 by Don Fischer
yea I see what you mean. I use a small aperture on moving and pointing shots, didn't even consider it on award shots! I'll have to pay better attention this fall.

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Just looked at those again and in the running shots also there is to much DOF isn't there?
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10 years 10 months ago #286249 by Don Fischer

Darrell wrote: Last 5 pics: I would suggest using a larger aperture so as to have some of the background out of focus to allow the viewer's eyes to go to the the subject rather than the background . The dogs make great subjects...


How's this?

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10 years 10 months ago - 10 years 10 months ago #286265 by garyrhook

Don Fischer wrote: yea I see what you mean. I use a small aperture on moving and pointing shots, didn't even consider it on award shots! I'll have to pay better attention this fall.

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Just looked at those again and in the running shots also there is to much DOF isn't there?


Well, I think so, but that's just me. I'm surprised you use a small aperture for the action shots. I would think a larger aperture and faster shutter speed would be what you want in order to freeze the action. And definitely for the posed shots, just enough DoF to keep the subjects in focus; nothing more. Perhaps f/5.6 or so, from where these are taken? For example, this one:
donfischer.smugmug.com/Other/Award-photo.../0/O/DSC_0140600.jpg
says f/14 at 1/500 s using ISO 640. By moving down to ISO 100 you can already increase your aperture to about f/6.3 at 1/500s. Or crank your shutter speed to 1/800 with those settings. You're far enough away that your DoF is going to be a few feet even at that aperture. Of course, of you were trying to keep the sign in focus, that makes it a bit more challenging.

Just $0.02. Take with a grain of salt.
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10 years 10 months ago #286271 by Sawyer
Great photos of these pups!
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10 years 10 months ago #286272 by Rob pix4u2
Vertical shots could help with the dogs running too I think would be an interesting perspective.
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10 years 10 months ago #286290 by Don Fischer
Yea they wanted the sign in focus. Sometime's the sign is in front and extra people in the back. i spend all day with a high ISO and forget to change it at the awards!
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10 years 9 months ago #287023 by Don Fischer

Rob pix4u2 wrote: Vertical shots could help with the dogs running too I think would be an interesting perspective.


I haven't tried vertical on dog's other than pointing or head shot's., I think it works pretty well there. Gonna have to try an action one like that.

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I lied. Just found this old film photo of Pete on wild birds.

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