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bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited March 27, 2011 in Street and Documentary
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    Serious, SERIOUS "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" iloveyou.gif and I'm besotted with the angle on #1.

    So does this mean after we collect our new puppy in May (after losing our much-loved Beardie last July - taken us a while to add another 4-foot) the inevitable multitude of shots can go in here? :D:D:D:D:D
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  • aj986saj986s Registered Users Posts: 1,100 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    That first picture is absolutely priceless! clap.gif
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    aj986s wrote: »
    That first picture is absolutely priceless! clap.gif


    I agree.
    The paw looks huge from this angle! I also like the look on her (?) face, I swear she's grinning.

    I also like to imagine you belly down to get this shot.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited March 21, 2011
    divamum wrote: »
    So does this mean after we collect our new puppy in May (after losing our much-loved Beardie last July - taken us a while to add another 4-foot) the inevitable multitude of shots can go in here? :D:D:D:D:D
    Hmmm...I've been thinking about a rule that each puppy shot has to be accompanied by 3 or more street shots. rolleyes1.gif

    Love the POV in #1.
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    Ah, but what if the puppy is ON the street?! ~deviously plans walks with cameras and puppies~

    :lol4

    Looking at #1 again, that flying ear just cracks me up - love it!
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    #1 is one of the best puppy shots ever!

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  • E ColbyE Colby Registered Users Posts: 68 Big grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    Number one is what a photography friend would call a shoe shot, the perfect level to shoot a puppy. Well done.
    Cheers,
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  • JocoJoco Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    The first one is great. The wide angle close ups do well with pets - they are so curious. I am more of a cat person hence I have a collection of this type shots, but not of dogs :-). #2 was not commented on yet, but I like it also. A lot of lines in the space and in particular that little piece of a blue marking mimicking the leash. Nice.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    Thanks Joco, and all. Number two is indeed about lines and composition. And I was belly down to get the shot of Eloise, one of our two new crazyass puppies.
    And Richard I realize I am straining your close to endless patience. But I am trying, at least, to post puppy shots that are well composed and have some sort of photographic value. Frankly, between puppy walks, puppy training, puppy poop cleaning, etc., there's not much else I'm shooting at the moment. We'd forgotten how all consuming they are.

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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    Low and close with a wide angle is usually a winner. Definitely applies in this case from one who is not a dog fan...

    Like the granite blocks for the curb in #2. So reminds me of S. F.
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    rainbow wrote: »
    Low and close with a wide angle is usually a winner. Definitely applies in this case from one who is not a dog fan...

    Like the granite blocks for the curb in #2. So reminds me of S. F.

    Thanks Rainbow. mwink.gif
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  • WillCADWillCAD Registered Users Posts: 722 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    GAK! I NEED INSULIN!

    #1 is possibly the best puppy shot I've ever seen. Beautifully framed, interesting angle, pup in focus despite motion, great bokeh, and a terrific subject and background.
    What I said when I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time: "The wide ain't wide enough and the zoom don't zoom enough!"
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    WillCAD wrote: »
    GAK! I NEED INSULIN!

    #1 is possibly the best puppy shot I've ever seen. Beautifully framed, interesting angle, pup in focus despite motion, great bokeh, and a terrific subject and background.

    Thanks very much - as Robert Capa was wont to say - " f 8 and be there!" (or in this case 5.6)rolleyes1.gif
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    I just have to add here: we were watching a BBC program about dog breeders just last night, and they went to visit a Beardie breeder (as luck would have it, "our" breed - pure serendipity!). Anyway, the breeder was discussing how she socialized the pups, including exposing them to basic household activities like vacuuming, doorbells, etc etc and this 6 week old pup walks across to the camera and starts patting it with a juvenile paw and a curious, "Hmm... what's this new Cyclops thing-y in my living room?!" look on his face. Not unlike the grand expression in #1 above (I assume you were covered with puppy kisses within seconds of snapping the frame... rolleyes1.gif)
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    divamum wrote: »
    I just have to add here: we were watching a BBC program about dog breeders just last night, and they went to visit a Beardie breeder (as luck would have it, "our" breed - pure serendipity!). Anyway, the breeder was discussing how she socialized the pups, including exposing them to basic household activities like vacuuming, doorbells, etc etc and this 6 week old pup walks across to the camera and starts patting it with a juvenile paw and a curious, "Hmm... what's this new Cyclops thing-y in my living room?!" look on his face. Not unlike the grand expression in #1 above (I assume you were covered with puppy kisses within seconds of snapping the frame... rolleyes1.gif)

    I was. And her older non-sib now-sib, the blond who is four weeks older, is now in puppy kindergarten with me, and one of the things the instructor did last week was pull on a huge flapping raincoat, a big straw hat, to then walk - with a walker, around the pups, all to socialize them.mwink.gif
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  • BendrBendr Registered Users Posts: 665 Major grins
    edited March 23, 2011
    I love the first shot, I wish the focus were a touch further forward, though(I'm being really nit-picky, and, yes, I recognize you couldn't really have adjusted it, as I said, I'm being nit-picky)

    Great shot!
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2011
    Well, one, you are indeed being nit-picky,rolleyes1.gif, but I believe the eyes are a whole lot more important than the nose, and the eyes are sharp. :D
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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited March 24, 2011
    How come my monitor smells like puppy breath now? :D

    That's a great capture in #1
  • swifteyeswifteye Registered Users Posts: 156 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2011
    I see street and the eyes have it!
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  • BendrBendr Registered Users Posts: 665 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2011
    bdcolen wrote: »
    Well, one, you are indeed being nit-picky,rolleyes1.gif, but I believe the eyes are a whole lot more important than the nose, and the eyes are sharp. :D

    Haha, I definitely agree, you don't want the focus on the nose. I guess I thought the focus was set to just behind his eyes.

    :)
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