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I don't have any pets...but I do like taking photos of animals.
Last week I was busy taking pictures at the Dorset Show, lots of animals there so I tried to find something for the challenge.
I saw the opportunity when the owners of these two just happened to be standing near the wooden sculpture, I asked them to put the dogs next to it & for a few seconds the dogs obliged. I've cloned out the leads, added a bit of blur & took the vivid blue of some plastic containers, out of the background.
| Camera: | Canon EOS 5D |
| Lens: | 70 -200L |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Odd one Out? |
| Username: | 
pennyspike |
| Uploaded: | 13 Sep 2009 - 2:30 PM |
| Tags: | General, Humour / fun, Pets / captive animals |
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| Votes: | 22 |
| Group Event: | Critique Buddies September 2009 Group 3 |
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Superb pet portrait. I bet the one in the middle got a prize for obedience.
Critique Buddy Comment.
Terribly wooden models you have there Penny 
I have to admit, like you, I don't have any pets, but lucked out with finding one too.
I like the idea of the set up, but the crop seems very close to the dogs, especially the one on the left. Cloning out the leads was a good idea, but it does make the one on the left's collar look rather peculiar now at that funny angle!
Still, well spotted moment.
Thanks for the comments.
I hadn't noticed the bit of lead. I shall try to do something about it.
This was the first 'grab shot', the other where there was more at the side the puppy was on the move, she only stayed like that for a moment. (Hence V2 with the single sitting dog.)
I tried various dogs competeing in the terrier racing but my shutter speed was a bit too slow for the best ones.
really like the way you got them to stay in that position for a shot - that's classy, must be well trained and the shot shows that well .
I know it was a grab shot so well done - things that you'd like in an ideal world would be a shorter statue, so the heads are a bit closer, more width to the shot so the dogs are not on the edge of the frame and maybe less stuff in the background - but you can't really cater for that in this circumstance.
nice
Thanks Ade, it was a bit of fun rather than a serious pet portrait but I couldn't let the opportunity pass.
My Critique Buddies comment, Hi Penny, this is a brilliant moment to capture, the unusual carved dog and the 2 lovely dogs either side. They look like they are looking straight at you, though the carved dog is looking off on a slightly different angle. The background though is distracting and perhaps a larger aperture would have helped, or some photoshop type mod. I also wonder if in photoshop whether the crop might be slightly wider and rotated 1 or 2 degrees anticlockwise to make the subjects more vertical. But it’s certainly a shot I would have been happy to spot take, nice one. Cheers, Stuart
Ahhh dogs, much more my thing!
I love the idea and they are such gorgeous dogs, V1 the crop is a bit tight but in V2 it looks as thought you have blurred the background in PS and there is a definite line where it ends so it looks rather false and detracts from the image.
V1 is technically better but I like the composition of V2 best
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