While waiting for a greyhound to be brought into the corral for small dog- and cat-testing during yesterday's retirement day, Shannon picked up her Chinese crested boy, Jesse James, to give him some attention. He stayed in this position -- lying on his back, feet up -- for some moments.
I held the camera at ground level, aimed it in their general direction, and had no idea what, if anything, I would get.
(Shot with the Nikon D300 using the 18-200mm zoom set at 34mm and SB-800 flash; aperture-priority with aperture set at f/4.5; camera chose shutter speed of 1/640 second at ISO 400; slow-sync; center-weighted metered; auto white balance; normal JPG.)
It's refreshing to see a shot from an unexpected angle. Without an articulating LCD screen, sometimes you gotta point in the general direction, click the shutter, and hope for the best.
ReplyDeleteexactly...hope for the best. i'm always surprised at what i get shooting blind like this. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. but that's what makes this fun for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is such an amazing photo, thank you again for taking it. You are such a talented photographer. : )
ReplyDeleteand this time, you didn't ask me to leave you out of the picture. :P
Deletehaha, you're right!!! I figured you knew the rules by now!! : )
DeleteWhat an awesome photo. Most amazing part is it being in focus on the dog's face. When I do the hold-camera-low-and-hope, 9 times out of 10 the focus is on the background, or the wrong thing, etc. What a great capture.
ReplyDeletei'm fairly sure that i had the focus mode on "closest subject" (on the d300 it's a large white square at the top icon of the 3-position focus selector switch). but i haven't looked at it at 100% so i don't yet know where the camera actually focused. it's a fun picture, though. i like shannon's smile.
DeleteI love how you captured him! I agree, sometimes not knowing what you're going to get is part of the fun!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo! I like doing that with the camera sometimes...just see what happens!
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