Play Date?
If you have a toy to play with, you have a friend to play with the rest of your life.
If you have a toy to play with, you have a friend to play with the rest of your life.
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Feb, 2017Views
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Behind The Lens
Location
I took this photo in the driveway/yard of the dogs owner. Just a little outside Lillehammer, NorwayTime
I remember this day well. My car had to be fixed and the owner of the dog is a friend of mine, willing to help me out. But of course after work. We ate dinner and then we headed out. Since I only know enough to drive a car, I left the fixing up to the expert. Most of the time I bring my camera when I head out with my car. You never no, what you could see along the way. And since my Friend was fixing my car for free, I thought I could capture a great image of his dog while playing with his favorite toy. The time of shooting the image was after dinner, around 17:30 until it was to dark to take any more images.Lighting
The day was perfect for shooting. With the light clouds shading the sun, gave the surroundings a dim light, and the dog got a softness to his happy face. So all natural light, which I love.Equipment
This image was shot on a Nikon D5500 with a fixed 50mm lens. And of course the dogs favorite toy.Inspiration
Give me a camera and an animal and I'm inspired enough. But I guess for this photo I was inspired to give something bak for a friend that helped me. And a good way to do that for someone who don't have a lot of portraits of his dog, is to make sure he gets some.Editing
Not much, I used Lightroom to help me brighten a little up on the images since I thought it was a bit darker than I wish it was. And did a little other fine tuning/adjustment at the same time.In my camera bag
Not much since I don't have much. My only Camera and my only lens along with some cleaning equipment, is always in my little camera bag. But on overnight hiking trips I also bring a long my tripod. Which I recommend to bring a long as a standard equipment. I just don't have a camera bag that fits for my tripod at the moment.Feedback
Dealing with animals as a photo subject, you never know what you'll get, so either way. Practice. With a dog playing I would always go for a little higher ISO even though I hate it. But you need it to compensate with the shutter speed and blender. Animals move a lot. If you want a image like this, where the dogs is quite still. I would drain the dog a little bit of energy with playtime first, they get a bit more focused after. Don't exhausted the dog, you still want the dog to have that playfulness in it's eyes.
