Thursday, June 7, 2012

Faces from the Fastfriends picnic

There were some stunning greyhound faces at the Fastfriends Greyhound Adoption annual picnic this past weekend. As I had done at the GreySave picnic two weeks prior, I used center-weighted metering to bring out the eye color. I just want to know what will give me the look I want, and when to use it. And it has to be fun, too.

Anyway, enough of the tech-talk -- let me share some pictures I took during the picnic:

Peaches

Charlie



Dingo

Sarih





All but the fourth and fifth pictures in this series were taken with the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 lens set at f/2.8 (the other lens used was the Nikon 70-200mm VR). The 50mm lens is crazy-good.

(Shot with the Nikon D300 using the 50mm and 70-200mm VR zoom, and the SB-800 flash; auto white balance; flash compensation set to -0.7 or -1.0; normal JPG.)

9 comments:

  1. Beautiful pics. Love the variety of color. I love the 50mm, but sadly, it's probably my least used lens too.

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  2. What fantastic images! You really did a great job, and your focus is razor sharp. Wow!

    Did you use any particular post processing on those pictures when you were done? They are so gorgeous and I love the color!

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  3. the only picture that i did any adjusting on is just the second one (it was too dark for my taste). i added a bit more exposure to it. but then the white fur started to disappear so i compromised. on my laptop screen it looks a little too blue still.

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  4. Is the fifth one down a greyhound? I've never seen one with long hair like that on its ears -- too cute. Your photography is just gorgeous.

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    1. it's a saluki. there were two of them (the picture of the other one wasn't that good). they're wonderful dogs.

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  5. What lovely head shots. How I love those hound faces.

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    1. maybe i ought to photograph their other parts, too.

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  6. Beautiful shots of beautiful hounds!

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