In Her Element
She is a mountain dog, built to clamber over rocks and survey her domain from the highest point. We were atop our local beacon hill on this day and she was utte...
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She is a mountain dog, built to clamber over rocks and survey her domain from the highest point. We were atop our local beacon hill on this day and she was utterly in her element.
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ST200 / ST200F / ST201 / ST201F / ST205F
Aperture f/5.0 ISO 200 Shutter 1/1000 Focal Length 159/10 
Mar, 2015Views
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Location
Beacon Hill, LeicesterTime
It would have been at about 2:00 in the afternoon.Lighting
Not really. I don't use lights so this was available lighting.Equipment
It was taken with my Samsung ST200. I always have it with me. The battery on my Fuji was charging!Inspiration
She did. I love what happens to her when we hit the high ground. She always wants to go higher. I also love the countryside - such a mix of rocky and pastureland. It`s dotted with villages and the city is not far away, but you`d never know it.Editing
Almost never do.In my camera bag
My camera, sometimes a tri- or mono-pod but they`re fussy to work with and the shot I want is almost always gone by the time I get the camera on. So, I`ve been trying to learn to use my body as a tripod as well as possible, use my breathing, try not to shake. In this case, I would have been crouched down, so my elbows would have been on my knees.Feedback
My focus was on her; her reaction to being at the highest point. Crouching down to take the photo from her viewpoint was important as well. Know where you want your focus to be and decide what`s important to the story you`re telling. In this case, because she was the story, the beautiful landscape she was surveying was unimportant. I used F5 with an exposure of 1/1000, ISO 200 because it was cloudy with some sun. I could have used an F11 or so to get more depth of field, but that would have been a different photograph.
