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.)
I've been known to take those nose droplets off! They drive me insane! I love that shot and sky! Just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLightroom really dislikes me!
if you need help using lightroom, let me know. i can probably answer some easy questions. :P
DeleteIs this from Dewey? I can't wait for next year! This is so lovely. Thank you for your encouraging words to me about photography. I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteyes, it is. we've been very fortunate to have had such great weather since i started going in 2009. and there has been at least one day where there were clouds to make the sunrises more dramatic.
DeleteLovely sky and composition. Bootsy is very handsome. I love the sun reflection under his chest.
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