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Dog portraits

Started Dec 23, 2019 | Discussions
Fred_Last Contributing Member • Posts: 525
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MtnView
MtnView Contributing Member • Posts: 751
I love dog portraits!
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Great pics. Sorry for jumping on your thread.

I'd like to add our Guide Dog for the Blind "Career Change" dog, Dru.

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OP Fred_Last Contributing Member • Posts: 525
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rjensen11 wrote:

Great pics. Sorry for jumping on your thread.

I'd like to add our Guide Dog for the Blind "Career Change" dog, Dru.

This is a great picture and smart looking dog!

Optimus Primark
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Great pics. One of mine if you don't mind..Ps what lense did you use? Mine was with the 25mm panny

MtnView
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Nice shot!

I used the Oly 12-100 with an off-camera flash (Godox) and a soft box. It took a few tries to get the right location for the flash. The normal angle from the front and side doesn't work with a dog's big nose! The flash box needed to be more in front of dog that with a person. This dog is very mellow, so she sat through many test pictures. We call it our doggy glamour shot.

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WhiteBeard
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Fred_Last wrote:

OK. I'm going to be maybe a little bit too critical and not as automatically enthusiastic about any dog picture posted out here  but these are... well... pretty ordinary .Not portraits, but rather snapshots with too many extraneous  accessories. I'd recommend focusing on the dog itself with more eye contact with the camera....

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whumber
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A few, courtesy of our golden retriever.

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WhiteBeard
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whumber wrote:

A few, courtesy of our golden retriever.

Seems to live a hard life... And they say dogs can't smile!

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s_grins
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Camera in bag tends to stay in bag...

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MtnView
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You have a laid back dog.

Here is our other dog, waiting for Santa and his bag of treats...

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gwydionjhr
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I got asked to do the xmas pics at a local pet store this holiday, I've never done "studio" work before, it was a real learning experience. Almost 100 dogs over 2 days. I had a fun series from 3 dogs that I didn't know what to do with, so I made up this video.

MtnView
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Congrats. I bet that was a lot of fun. I'm sure you made a lot of dog owners very happy.

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mikero
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What a nice change not to see cats. 

Here's my daughter's dog on the run.

Mike

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macautio Contributing Member • Posts: 668
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Nice picture, but focus is nose. Eyes is blurry. Typical mistake fo FF user.

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markku

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Juliette

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Our Shiloh Shepherd Samson at 2 months/ Then 6 years and 140 # later.

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