Monday, August 15, 2011

In your ear

Nikki and Sadie

Yesterday I was browsing through some pictures I took back in October 2005 of Nikki and Sadie. We had had Nikki for eight years by then, and Sadie for a year. I was with them in the backyard patio, looking for an excuse to use my 70-200mm f/2.8 VR zoom (a wonderfully-made, but heavy, lens that I don't get to use often enough). They were acting pretty cute with each other so I waited to get a shot of them both. Nikki was sniffing Sadie's head as she sometimes did when I took this.

I had zoomed out to 70mm but because of the D200's crop factor of 1.5, my field of view was equivalent to a 105mm lens on a 35mm film or full-frame digital SLR. The lighting is a little unusual because they were standing in a patch of light falling on concrete, which in turn reflected the light upwards. So both girls are illuminated from underneath to a certain point, at which the rest of them is bluish due to them standing in shade.

This image has appeared in a Celebrating Greyhounds calendar, as well as on the Ohio State University's Greyhound Health and Wellness Program's website and their quarterly newsletters.

Six years since I took this picture. Six years...it doesn't seem possible.

(Shot with the Nikon D200 and the 70-200mm VR zoom set at 70mm; aperture-priority, with aperture set at f/5.6; camera chose shutter speed of 1/45 second at ISO 200; auto white balance; fine JPG.)

6 comments:

  1. What a beautiful shot! It looks like they're sharing a secret. I can definitely see why the photo has been so popular!

    It's always hard to believe how long they've been gone!

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  2. Sadie is here but Nikki's been gone since '08. And Sadie's face was still black -- unlike today.

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  3. So beautiful. You obviously caught a very special moment.

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  4. Wonderful Photo. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. sadie was always deferring to whatever nik wanted to do, even though nik was never dominating over sadie or katie. i think they both deferred to her because nik was here first.

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  6. A very sweet photo:) And a lovely effect with the light being reflected from the concrete.

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