2/23/2020 - 2/29/2020 - Pet
Byron-
I photographed my pet pony "Antonio". He was out in the desert on his early morning run.
Sony a7, 85mm lens, f8, ISO 200, 1/60 sec
Sony a7, 85mm lens, f8, ISO 200, 1/60 sec
Darin-
In a nod to Byron's Antonio, I give you Gary... Gary the Gargoyle.
I see Gary, on guard, every time I ride a certain route. He sits at the end of a driveway watching... waiting... lurking. I enjoy this route just for the reason that I get to see Gary. Gary makes me smile.
I see Gary, on guard, every time I ride a certain route. He sits at the end of a driveway watching... waiting... lurking. I enjoy this route just for the reason that I get to see Gary. Gary makes me smile.
Kevin-
So this week;’s assignment was to photograph a Pet. Or if you didn’t have a pet to photograph someone else’s (friend, relative, stranger, whatever) pet.
Fortunately we do have a pet, who is (in our opinion) quite adorable. So it was time to photograph Squirt again.
Now the problem with Squirt is that she is really low. Eyes barely off the ground. So unless I wanted to shoot down at her, I needed to get the camera even lower than Squirt.
I also know that Squirt does not love having a camera shoved in her face. But I also liked some of the wide angle pet portraits I had encountered. So I attached my 14-24mm Nikkor lens, set it to 20mm, cranked up the cranked the ISO up to 800, and set the f-stop to f/22.
The camera was too low for me to put my eye to the viewfinder, but my Z7 has a flip up screen on the back which allowed me to glance down and roughly confirm composition and focus. And despite her hesitancy, a couple of small treats got Squirt to stay in place.
Fortunately we do have a pet, who is (in our opinion) quite adorable. So it was time to photograph Squirt again.
Now the problem with Squirt is that she is really low. Eyes barely off the ground. So unless I wanted to shoot down at her, I needed to get the camera even lower than Squirt.
I also know that Squirt does not love having a camera shoved in her face. But I also liked some of the wide angle pet portraits I had encountered. So I attached my 14-24mm Nikkor lens, set it to 20mm, cranked up the cranked the ISO up to 800, and set the f-stop to f/22.
The camera was too low for me to put my eye to the viewfinder, but my Z7 has a flip up screen on the back which allowed me to glance down and roughly confirm composition and focus. And despite her hesitancy, a couple of small treats got Squirt to stay in place.
Paul-
“Outside of a book, a dog is man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx
I am not a pet person. I can barely stand looking at pet pictures, much less being around other people’s pets. (Relax, Kevin, Squirt has earned a special dispensation.)
Well sure, who among us doesn’t dream of a companionate, cross-species bond with a peregrine falcon, a Komodo lizard, or several box jellyfish? However, these creatures require special surroundings to thrive, demand full-time care, and in two cases would just as soon kill—and in one case consume –you than strike a pose. So they’re pretty much out.
With a proviso, spiders are in. One of my buddies in college brought his pet painted tarantula (“Shirley”) to keep him company in our dorm. Very low maintenance, very beautiful, these particular arachnids. But tarantulas are exceedingly quiet, can’t self-regulate their internal temperature, and that means these two characteristics can make for a restless moment if it’s the middle of the night and you’re wondering if you had put the lid back on the terrarium.
So it was with something approaching lukewarm interest that I asked my sister-in-law to bring over the puppy (“Lulu”) she just acquired. It’s supposed to be a purebred something-or-other, but I suspect it is a cross breed with a disposition that puts somewhere between the Tasmanian Devil of Warner Bros. fame and a ping-pong ball in a blender. And where some dogs have fleas, this one has neuroses.
I took about 60 shots of this little chaos-in-a-collar at a fairly high shutter speed and most still came out as either a furry blur or a decent picture of the back of dog’s head. See…a komodo lizard just wouldn’t do this (he’d be tasting the air as he plodded spritely in your direction)—what a great opportunity (and possibly your last) to get some fine snapshots. And if you were getting close-ups of your pet box jellyfish you’d be too busy writhing in unimaginably hellish agony to care about depth of field. Or water, for that matter.
I wasn’t happy with any of the shots, but two or three were serviceable and, in a moment of puckish glee, I felt compelled not to take this week’s theme too seriously. The first picture is my submission; the second is (alas) a slightly out-of-focus puppy that made the papers.
Shot with a Pentax K9: Nikon D5200; Nikkor 18-55mm focused at 45mm; aperture mode, pattern metered; ISO 3200; 1/8 sec. at f/6.3. The completed photo was dropped into a “template” provided by PhotoFunia. Naturally, I wrote the headline and sub-head.
I am not a pet person. I can barely stand looking at pet pictures, much less being around other people’s pets. (Relax, Kevin, Squirt has earned a special dispensation.)
Well sure, who among us doesn’t dream of a companionate, cross-species bond with a peregrine falcon, a Komodo lizard, or several box jellyfish? However, these creatures require special surroundings to thrive, demand full-time care, and in two cases would just as soon kill—and in one case consume –you than strike a pose. So they’re pretty much out.
With a proviso, spiders are in. One of my buddies in college brought his pet painted tarantula (“Shirley”) to keep him company in our dorm. Very low maintenance, very beautiful, these particular arachnids. But tarantulas are exceedingly quiet, can’t self-regulate their internal temperature, and that means these two characteristics can make for a restless moment if it’s the middle of the night and you’re wondering if you had put the lid back on the terrarium.
So it was with something approaching lukewarm interest that I asked my sister-in-law to bring over the puppy (“Lulu”) she just acquired. It’s supposed to be a purebred something-or-other, but I suspect it is a cross breed with a disposition that puts somewhere between the Tasmanian Devil of Warner Bros. fame and a ping-pong ball in a blender. And where some dogs have fleas, this one has neuroses.
I took about 60 shots of this little chaos-in-a-collar at a fairly high shutter speed and most still came out as either a furry blur or a decent picture of the back of dog’s head. See…a komodo lizard just wouldn’t do this (he’d be tasting the air as he plodded spritely in your direction)—what a great opportunity (and possibly your last) to get some fine snapshots. And if you were getting close-ups of your pet box jellyfish you’d be too busy writhing in unimaginably hellish agony to care about depth of field. Or water, for that matter.
I wasn’t happy with any of the shots, but two or three were serviceable and, in a moment of puckish glee, I felt compelled not to take this week’s theme too seriously. The first picture is my submission; the second is (alas) a slightly out-of-focus puppy that made the papers.
Shot with a Pentax K9: Nikon D5200; Nikkor 18-55mm focused at 45mm; aperture mode, pattern metered; ISO 3200; 1/8 sec. at f/6.3. The completed photo was dropped into a “template” provided by PhotoFunia. Naturally, I wrote the headline and sub-head.
Jerry-
Of course I had to take photos of Jack, he and I have bonded over the last few years and even when I sit down to read he has to be by my side! And when I nap, he likes to find a comfy spot while I snore. So, this is an impromptu photo with my phone, iPhone SE, f2.2 @ 1/30, ISO 64. Light coming in from the south facing windows.
Don-
this picture of Bindi running towards me
f/4; 1/1250; ISO 280
35 to 135 lens @102
f/4; 1/1250; ISO 280
35 to 135 lens @102