1st attempt at dog portrait

WirenWiren Registered Users Posts: 741 Major grins
edited March 15, 2011 in People
Not a person per se, but a member of our family, 14 year old mutt, just after a clip.

I set up with flash to camera right at about 1/2 power (bounced into reflective umbrella) and a white reflector camera left. 1/100, 50mm lens at 2.8~4.

In retrospect, I should have had the flash on camera left to highlight her good eye and not the one with a cataract.... :dunno

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Lee Wiren

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  • JoiJoiJoiJoi Registered Users Posts: 108 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2011
    looks good! i would fix the color in his eyes though
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  • anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2011
    I think the posing is good in all three. The comp in 1 and 3 are good. I feel there is too munch room on top and the bottom is cropped a little to close to his paws on 2.

    All are underexposed and light seems a little hard. Try bring the strobe in closer to soften the shadows.
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  • laurenornotlaurenornot Registered Users Posts: 167 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2011
    Agree with all the C&C above; the images seem a little flat to me, could use some contrast or a rim light to pop her out from the background a bit. On the positive side, great posing and what a good dog to let you flash her! My dog (and others I've worked with) are scared of flash and I'm forced to stick with modeling lights and fluorescents.
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2011
    Nice shots. Try raising your black point up a bit and maybe cloning the good eye and do a horizontal flip and put the good eye over the bad one.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,934 moderator
    edited March 15, 2011
    For your first attempt, I think you did very well. I like all three poses.

    One thing you're missing is some light under the chin. This could be accomplished with a silver reflector placed on the floor and under the flash to reflect a bit more light up.

    I don't know if you have any other light modifiers but It'd be cool to see that with 1/16 power and maybe a grid on the flash. I'd also like to see something shot at f/5.6 for a bit more DOF too.
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