Dogs

rutt

I'll bet this will be a fruitfull thread. I've taken a lot of pictures of dogs, but have found them a fairly challenging subject. They don't hold still well, and they are very interested in you. My own dog is camera shy, probably because she associates the camera with its flash, which she hates. She is also black, which was the subject of a whole thread in "photoshop shinanigans"...

Anyway, share your dog photos. Here are some of my better ones:

Vickie, my own dog and most reliable training partner:



One of my sister's many terriers:



Some street dogs taken in Nantucket last July 4th:

DoctorIt

Black dogs are tough. Running jumping crazy black puppies are even tougher.

fish

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rutt

fish wrote:

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No fair. Real dogs don't pose.

DoctorIt

Crazy black puppy (belongs to a good friend) and my brown mutt:



kobe really has no problems posing. And why should he, he gets more compliments about being handsome than I have in my whole life:




last one, black/white, one of my favs:

DoctorIt

ok, one more, can't help it. This one is cool for composition reasons. One of the first shots with my 50mm f/1.8 when I first got it. Was able to really just focus on his eyes and have the background very blurry.

lynnma

DoctorIt wrote:

Crazy black puppy (belongs to a good friend) and my brown mutt:



kobe really has no problems posing. And why should he, he gets more compliments about being handsome than I have in my whole life:




last one, black/white, one of my favs:

Oh Erik, if you will keep walking around with your finger stuck up yer nose what do you expect?
Beautiful doggies... don't yer just love doggies?? I can't get enought of them myself.. maybe we should have a forum for just doggies...
Lynn

rutt

DoctorIt wrote:

Great tounge action. I've always be jealous of my dog's tounge.

lynnma

I've put this doggie up before.. it's my all time favorite so far. She was sitting out side a shop waiting for her mommy to come out and I could'nt resist her.
Lynn

rutt

lynnma wrote:

I've put this doggie up before.. it's my all time favorite so far. She was sitting out side a shop waiting for her mommy to come out and I could'nt resist her.
Lynn

What breed do you think she is? Lot's of work to keep that coat so nice!

I always try to get the camera down to my subject's level. But in this case, looking down seems to be working. I'm not exactly sure why.

lynnma

rutt wrote:

What breed do you think she is? Lot's of work to keep that coat so nice!

I always try to get the camera down to my subject's level. But in this case, looking down seems to be working. I'm not exactly sure why.

She is an Australian sheep dog I believe.. I think I was crouched? at least I thought I was...

lynnma

lynnma wrote:

She is an Australian sheep dog I believe.. I think I was crouched? at least I thought I was...

On this one which is out of focus I actually got her to smile a little....

Seamaiden

I believe she may be (in part at least) Aussie shepherd. rutt, you referred to Vickie as your training partner, please elaborate.

(While I'm relegated to this laptop I can't post pics of "The Miss" - Missy, short for 'miscellaneous'.. when the vet said she was part Lab, I thought it stood for laboratory.)

Richard Cabesa

I have found the best thing for pics of the dogs is to let them run around you while you are down on their level. Eventually they stop for a second and you can get a pic

Lilly



David

Seamaiden

Timing is so key.. unless you're like Missy. Except when she goes "fool dog", then fuhget about it.

You know, I never had a dog that "grinned" til she came to us. Lots of dogs are dumped up here in the hills, I think folks think they're setting their dogs free, and don't realize that between the packs of coyotes and the inability of most domestic dogs to hunt for food, they're actually dooming them to death. I MUST get a picture of our neighbor's dog, Charlie. Kobe reminds me of Charlie, has a certain look in the eye. Charlie saved my youngest boy's life from a pitbull that was going for the back of his head when he was five. I owe that dog, I really owe him.

lynnma

Richard Cabesa wrote:

I have found the best thing for pics of the dogs is to let them run around you while you are down on their level. Eventually they stop for a second and you can get a pic

Lilly



David

Thats a lovely shot david, great color. My doggie got quite upset when I had to finally leave her...

lynnma

fish wrote:

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Oh my, what big teeth you have....must be a fishhound...

Sandy

This is Astro, the new dog. He a Jindo. I have two others equally as beautiful.

Sandy

My precious Helix is 14.



Hanna Maisie is 8, all were rescued.

rutt

Sandy wrote:

This is Astro, the new dog. He a Jindo. I have two others equally as beautiful.

This is beautiful. It really captures the personality (so to speak) of Astro. And the detail of the fur is great.

pathfinder

rutt wrote:

I'll bet this will be a fruitfull thread. I've taken a lot of pictures of dogs, but have found them a fairly challenging subject.

Anyway, share your dog photos.

Here is my 14 year old Border Collie mutt - she goes by Celeste.....complete with dirt in her mouth

Sam

Here is a photo of my sister's Basset Hound. While a little soft it does capture his true intelect.

Sam

Here is a my friends black dog.

Sandy

lynnma's right the camera needs to be at the dogs level to get good photos.

gotta

This is one of my dogs. He's all Sheltie, his name is Bo.
Regards, Eric

pathfinder

pathfinder wrote:

Here is my 14 year old Border Collie mutt - she goes by Celeste.....complete with dirt in her mouth

Here is my other dog - she is a lttle bigger ---NOT Plott Hound.

Wings

Razz

Wings

This is scanned...crappy quality but Razz sure was one dog that liked to pose

Wings

Rufus

Wings

Sydney & Katie

ian408

Sandy wrote:

This is Astro, the new dog. He a Jindo. I have two others equally as beautiful.

Looks good shot from the dog's level.

Can we see some more Astro photos? I've never seen a Jindo before
(at least that I knew was a Jindo).

Thanks,
Ian