236 - Dog - December 24-30, 2017
Don-
My dog, Boner, howling at the moon. Sentence structure courtesy of Byron.
Focal was 24mm using a 24 to 70 lens.
Exposure was 15 seconds; f/7.1; ISO 100.
Camera on Manual and using a tripod. No flash used.
My dog, Boner, howling at the moon. Sentence structure courtesy of Byron.
Focal was 24mm using a 24 to 70 lens.
Exposure was 15 seconds; f/7.1; ISO 100.
Camera on Manual and using a tripod. No flash used.
Byron-
Welcome to the Lifestyles of the Not So Rich & Famous. It was too cold out for me to take a picture of a dog. Besides, I don't own one. I thought about alternatives. My Daughter-in-Law made me aware of the hotdogs at Sam's Club. For $1.60 you get a Nathan's Famous hotdog and a unlimited fountain drink. To me, it is a luxury. At home we can't have regular hotdogs. They have to be turkey (or worse) and very small. The Sam's Club hotdog is large and all beef. I tried to make this photo as artistic as possible but I was a bit uncomfortable taking a picture of my wiener in Sam's Club.
23mm lens, ISO 3200, f2, 1/1000 sec White balance set to auto.
Welcome to the Lifestyles of the Not So Rich & Famous. It was too cold out for me to take a picture of a dog. Besides, I don't own one. I thought about alternatives. My Daughter-in-Law made me aware of the hotdogs at Sam's Club. For $1.60 you get a Nathan's Famous hotdog and a unlimited fountain drink. To me, it is a luxury. At home we can't have regular hotdogs. They have to be turkey (or worse) and very small. The Sam's Club hotdog is large and all beef. I tried to make this photo as artistic as possible but I was a bit uncomfortable taking a picture of my wiener in Sam's Club.
23mm lens, ISO 3200, f2, 1/1000 sec White balance set to auto.
Darin-
This is what I see every time I leave for work. Revo is either wishing he could go with me OR making sure I'm leaving his house.
Notice the dirty window (I actually cleaned it last week). Those are nose prints, showing that this is not a one-off event.
Also, I like the weathered, blue wood framing the subject... Not real impressive to guests, but pretty cool for a photo!
This is what I see every time I leave for work. Revo is either wishing he could go with me OR making sure I'm leaving his house.
Notice the dirty window (I actually cleaned it last week). Those are nose prints, showing that this is not a one-off event.
Also, I like the weathered, blue wood framing the subject... Not real impressive to guests, but pretty cool for a photo!
Kevin-
Well for the Dog theme I couldn’t resist taking a very traditional approach and photographing Squirt, especially after I saw her peering over the back of the sofa, with sunlight from a high window behind giving a nice glow to her hair. That said, it took several days between the time that I had seen the scene (do you like that minor bit of phrasing?) and finding a day where I could set up the camera in advance with a flash/softbox for fill light to actually capture the image. My brother Brad was visiting and he kindly encouraged (with treats) Squirt to stay in place while I squeezed off a few frames.
Nikon D850 on a Manfrotto Carbon One 440 tripod with an Acratech GP ballhead, 70-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 170mm, ISO 64, 1/1000th of a second at f/2.8 (so I could defocus the background). One Nikon SB-900 series flash in a softbox for the front fill. TTL metering for everything.
Well for the Dog theme I couldn’t resist taking a very traditional approach and photographing Squirt, especially after I saw her peering over the back of the sofa, with sunlight from a high window behind giving a nice glow to her hair. That said, it took several days between the time that I had seen the scene (do you like that minor bit of phrasing?) and finding a day where I could set up the camera in advance with a flash/softbox for fill light to actually capture the image. My brother Brad was visiting and he kindly encouraged (with treats) Squirt to stay in place while I squeezed off a few frames.
Nikon D850 on a Manfrotto Carbon One 440 tripod with an Acratech GP ballhead, 70-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 170mm, ISO 64, 1/1000th of a second at f/2.8 (so I could defocus the background). One Nikon SB-900 series flash in a softbox for the front fill. TTL metering for everything.
Paul-
With a few exceptions, I don’t particularly like pets…at least not those that aren’t palatable should we suddenly suffer civil decline and national ruin. And the dogs virtually everyone else in my neighborhood own are not photogenic at best of times and slavering mongrels at worst. There are quite a few English and American idioms that use this week’s theme, but none really sparked my interest except “Well, dog my cats” and “My dogs are killing me.” And I was thinking about heading out to the local hardware store to buy a dog wrench to photograph, but they were kind of pricey.
What to do? I turned to someone I knew could trust; William Shakespeare. Though it will probably be a terrible disappointment to a nation of adolescents (and probably more than a few adults), it was not the warmongering Klingon General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country who first shouted “Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the dogs of war.”
Nope. That was Marcus Antonius (not a Klingon) in his soliloquy as he looked upon Caesar’s (ditto) bloody body in Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. So, scrambling for something to shoot besides the mini-devil-dog next door, I pulled from the Library shelves a large copy of The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of William Shakespeare (2nd edition) to take a picture of this passage. Norton’s presents most if not all of the plays, sonnets, etc. and displays them as if the pages were printed with the moveable type that would have been used when the First Folios were published in 1623. [Suffice to say, there are only so many authentic First Folios being used to prop open doors or level kitchen tables. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has one in its archival vault. I was given the opportunity to see it about 15 years ago and actually got a chance to turned a few pages—after putting on cotton gloves. Scholars believe about 750 were originally printed and today only around 233 are known to exist.]
So, this is not a terribly creative submission for pet “companions.” But it was a lot of fun. I took the facsimile volume down to the Library’s Archive Room, placed it under magnifying platform that provides its own illumination (see the second picture I attached), then placed on the page—Act III, Scene I if you’re curious—a large convex magnifying glass I own. I turned off the room lights and played around at taking shots free of bothersome reflections, glare, or excess distortion.
Oh, just in case you’re interested: The First Folios were printed in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. It was published in London by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount. Don't look for one on eBay.
I’ll just let slip this: Nikon D5200; B&W setting; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 35mm; ISO 1000; 1/60 sec. at f/11; matrix metering; -1/3 EV; WB Auto. The camera was hand-held.
With a few exceptions, I don’t particularly like pets…at least not those that aren’t palatable should we suddenly suffer civil decline and national ruin. And the dogs virtually everyone else in my neighborhood own are not photogenic at best of times and slavering mongrels at worst. There are quite a few English and American idioms that use this week’s theme, but none really sparked my interest except “Well, dog my cats” and “My dogs are killing me.” And I was thinking about heading out to the local hardware store to buy a dog wrench to photograph, but they were kind of pricey.
What to do? I turned to someone I knew could trust; William Shakespeare. Though it will probably be a terrible disappointment to a nation of adolescents (and probably more than a few adults), it was not the warmongering Klingon General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country who first shouted “Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the dogs of war.”
Nope. That was Marcus Antonius (not a Klingon) in his soliloquy as he looked upon Caesar’s (ditto) bloody body in Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. So, scrambling for something to shoot besides the mini-devil-dog next door, I pulled from the Library shelves a large copy of The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of William Shakespeare (2nd edition) to take a picture of this passage. Norton’s presents most if not all of the plays, sonnets, etc. and displays them as if the pages were printed with the moveable type that would have been used when the First Folios were published in 1623. [Suffice to say, there are only so many authentic First Folios being used to prop open doors or level kitchen tables. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has one in its archival vault. I was given the opportunity to see it about 15 years ago and actually got a chance to turned a few pages—after putting on cotton gloves. Scholars believe about 750 were originally printed and today only around 233 are known to exist.]
So, this is not a terribly creative submission for pet “companions.” But it was a lot of fun. I took the facsimile volume down to the Library’s Archive Room, placed it under magnifying platform that provides its own illumination (see the second picture I attached), then placed on the page—Act III, Scene I if you’re curious—a large convex magnifying glass I own. I turned off the room lights and played around at taking shots free of bothersome reflections, glare, or excess distortion.
Oh, just in case you’re interested: The First Folios were printed in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. It was published in London by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount. Don't look for one on eBay.
I’ll just let slip this: Nikon D5200; B&W setting; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 35mm; ISO 1000; 1/60 sec. at f/11; matrix metering; -1/3 EV; WB Auto. The camera was hand-held.
Jerry-
The family dog, Jack, was sitting on the couch looking out the window, when I realized that this was my moment. He is a very sweet Shih Tzu that we got from an elderly couple who could not take good care of him anymore as they dealt with health issues. Jack will be one year old in January and can be very puppyish. But he is also very much a lap dog and likes to cuddle. He can be a bit rowdy around teenagers but that is another story.
Camera was the Sony A6300 with 16-70 zoomed to about 60mm, exposure was 1/13 @ F11, ISO 800. Thank goodness for image stabilization, I didn’t realize until after the slow shutter speed. I like to use aperture priority and often don’t watch closely what speed the camera is picking.
The family dog, Jack, was sitting on the couch looking out the window, when I realized that this was my moment. He is a very sweet Shih Tzu that we got from an elderly couple who could not take good care of him anymore as they dealt with health issues. Jack will be one year old in January and can be very puppyish. But he is also very much a lap dog and likes to cuddle. He can be a bit rowdy around teenagers but that is another story.
Camera was the Sony A6300 with 16-70 zoomed to about 60mm, exposure was 1/13 @ F11, ISO 800. Thank goodness for image stabilization, I didn’t realize until after the slow shutter speed. I like to use aperture priority and often don’t watch closely what speed the camera is picking.