Bootsy on the beach

Bootsy is one of those greys who roos easily. And he makes a nice subject to photograph on a beach at sunrise.

 

Since I wanted to place the sun behind him I had to use flash in order to fill in some shadows. I had the camera set to aperture-priority and the flash to rear-sync to expose the background better, otherwise I was afraid the sky might come out too dark. Memory fails me if I even bothered to look through the viewfinder to frame the shot, but I don't think I did. (Looking through the viewfinder in the sun's direction is a dangerous thing to do.) I suppose it would've been nice if the leash wasn't in the picture, but I'm not about to ask my friend to let Bootsy off-leash. I added a vignette using Lightroom.

Two things are visible that I didn't notice at the time I took the picture: a jet contrail, and a nose droplet.

(Shot with the Nikon D300 using the 18-200mm zoom and the SB-800 flash; lens set at 18mm; aperture-priority with aperture set to f/3.5; camera chose shutter speed of 1/1000 second at ISO 200; normal JPG.)

Roooooooo!

Our girls don't roo. In fact, none of the four greyhounds we've adopted have ever rooed. And Sadie and Katie get nervous whenever a group of greyhounds begin barking and rooing as is sometimes done during, or at the end of, greyhound gatherings.

A pity...I think they'd be good at it.

So I must be content with being with other people's greyhounds to get a rooing picture.

Bootsy is one such greyhound. He roos with the slightest of provocations. I was on my way home from my first-time going to the Greyhounds in Gettysburg event in 2010. I hitched a ride with my friend and her family to BWI, stopping at her sister's home on the way there for a drink or two. The house has enormous amounts of light spilling through the back windows (which I noticed while we were all talking); it was totally wonderful. And the red-painted dining room wall complemented Bootsy's tiger stripes. I don't recall how Bootsy was prompted to roo but he kept going as my friend's sister joined in.

I didn't want to use bounce flash because the light was wonderful already but I still needed to up the ISO so Bootsy would not blur as he rooed. I took a number of pictures -- this one came out best after some cropping.

(Shot with the Nikon D300 using the 18-200mm set to 50mm; program-mode; camera chose 1/80 sec at f/4.8; ISO 800; auto white balance; matrix-metered; normal JPG.)