A Harley of a different kind.

cdonovancdonovan Registered Users Posts: 724 Major grins
edited February 19, 2007 in Wildlife
My sister rescued him from the local spca yesterday, beautiful boy with a heart of gold, a stray picked up about a month ago, during some bitter cold temperatures, breaks my heart that he was thrown out :cry he's lucky though, he'll have a better life he could have ever dreamed of! Meet Harley my nephew!:D :clap

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  • ZanottiZanotti Registered Users Posts: 1,411 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2007
    Pretty dog. I have a black one as well.

    She's sitting by my feet as I type this - she's rarely outside of ten feet from me when I am home.
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2007
    Very nice! I found it hard to photograph black dogs, don't you? I think you did wonderful job!thumb.gif
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2007
    cdonovan wrote:
    My sister rescued him from the local spca yesterday, beautiful boy with a heart of gold, a stray picked up about a month ago, during some bitter cold temperatures, breaks my heart that he was thrown out :cry he's lucky though, he'll have a better life he could have ever dreamed of! Meet Harley my nephew!:D clap.gif

    Ohhhhhhh look and they say adopted children often look like their adoptive families rolleyes1.gif how cute is he iloveyou.gif look at those big choppers and the drool, I'm so glad he has a nice new family to live with that actually want him and care for him, great story and nice shots Uncle :D ..... Skippy
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2007
    Very nice!

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  • cdonovancdonovan Registered Users Posts: 724 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2007
    Skippy wrote:
    Ohhhhhhh look and they say adopted children often look like their adoptive families rolleyes1.gif how cute is he iloveyou.gif look at those big choppers and the drool, I'm so glad he has a nice new family to live with that actually want him and care for him, great story and nice shots Uncle :D ..... Skippy
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    Uermmmmmwink.gif Skippy....make that an aunt! Donovan is my last name!rolleyes1.gif I'm a girl!!! Don't worry you're not the first one to make that mistake!

    Hey Sheps mom, I did find it extremly hard when inside to photograph a black face, but now with the speedlight I have no problems! But usually getting any features to standout on an all black face is difficult!

    Zanotti, I know how you feel, I have a golden and she's got her head under my chair, waiting for me to go to bed!!!

    What do you guys think of the last one, it's dark
    I wondered what you thought of the technique and it' s look

    I copied a layer, did a gaussian blurr, then erased out the catchlight in his eyes at 100% at a lower opacity(20%) i erased the blurr off other face highlights and the outline of the dog. Flattened, then copied a layer and used the "dark Strokes" choice from the filter gallery. then played with that layer opacity and flattened them again...it looks mildly like a painting...and I kind of like the effect, however I wonder if it just looks like an oversaturated and too dark print!rolleyes1.gif What do you folks think!

    thanks for the compliments so far!iloveyou.gif
  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2007
    I thought it did come out dark. How about getting rid of blur, and use curves to lighten it up a bit. Have you tried that yet?headscratch.gif
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  • dallasdallas Registered Users Posts: 1,638 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2007
    I'm very happy that he has found the right kind of parents.....lucky Harley and sister.iloveyou.gifiloveyou.gif
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  • cdonovancdonovan Registered Users Posts: 724 Major grins
    edited February 19, 2007
    Thanks wxwax & dallas!:D
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