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Tom, welcome to DPNow and congrats on your first post.
Regarding your photo, I sense you are not 100% happy with it.
As you say it was taken on a poor day, so it lacks contrast, which is easy enough to add. Essentially though it is a fairly unremarkable shot of your dog, which in fairness would appeal to you more than many
If you were to treat this more as a portrait of your dog, then the composition could be improved maybe, and I would suggest having the dog less central in the frame, or perhaps you should get closer therefore filling the frame more. At present though it looks more like a grab shot taken as the dogs expression appealed to you, and little thought to framing and composition has been done.
The most often made tip for photographing animals (and children) is to get down to their level.
The problem with dogs is that they will view this as a sign that you want them to jump all over you...
So somehow you have to train the dog to pose. Training yourself has just begun as posting here for comment is a great way to learn. You have to take the comments on the chin, but you will be amased how quick you learn (unlike the dog )
Tom, welcome to DPNow and congrats on your first post.
Regarding your photo, I sense you are not 100% happy with it.
As you say it was taken on a poor day, so it lacks contrast, which is easy enough to add. Essentially though it is a fairly unremarkable shot of your dog, which in fairness would appeal to you more than many
If you were to treat this more as a portrait of your dog, then the composition could be improved maybe, and I would suggest having the dog less central in the frame, or perhaps you should get closer therefore filling the frame more. At present though it looks more like a grab shot taken as the dogs expression appealed to you, and little thought to framing and composition has been done.
I'd be interested to know your own thoughts
Thanks Stephen and thanks for your comments. I agree with what you have said, it was a 'snap' which i did particularly like the dogs expression. It was the only time he stood still long enough to take one I thought the composition was all wrong and the focus of the dog was unclear. It was my first post on the internet to be truthful so i used a photo i thought was wrong and wanted critisism. I hope you had time to look through my Flickr which i am glad to hear comments also.
The most often made tip for photographing animals (and children) is to get down to their level.
The problem with dogs is that they will view this as a sign that you want them to jump all over you...
So somehow you have to train the dog to pose. Training yourself has just begun as posting here for comment is a great way to learn. You have to take the comments on the chin, but you will be amased how quick you learn (unlike the dog )
Have fun.
Thanks Graham.
Thats a useful tip, and your right any time my dog has the chance to get his muddy paws on me he does
Not too sure what has happened to the picture im really new to the forums and sharing pictures. I will try and rectify the problem
cheers Tom
Having looked at your Flickr site, you appear to have removed the picture from there. As the forum is a link to the picture, not a direct copy, removing the picture, will effectively cut the link, hence the the problem.
Just load it up on DPNow, and lets have a look, alternatively, for quickness, you can attach using a thumbmnail.
The only caveat, is that you will need to reduce both the dimensions, and size of the picture, (250mb) I would recomend loading the picture at no more than 600-700 pixels wide.
If you use photoshop, a good way of doing this, is to use the 'save for web' feature, though, this will strip out the exif.
Having looked at your Flickr site, you appear to have removed the picture from there. As the forum is a link to the picture, not a direct copy, removing the picture, will effectively cut the link, hence the the problem.
Just load it up on DPNow, and lets have a look, alternatively, for quickness, you can attach using a thumbmnail.
The only caveat, is that you will need to reduce both the dimensions, and size of the picture, (250mb) I would recomend loading the picture at no more than 600-700 pixels wide.
If you use photoshop, a good way of doing this, is to use the 'save for web' feature, though, this will strip out the exif.
hey thanks for the info i didnt realise taking it off flickr would affect this post.. i have put it back on flickr and pasted in the url again as im not sure how to insert a picture without an url.
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