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[diskworld3]

Hey everyone,
First post is this picture of my sisters German Short-haired Pointer standing against a fence and a tighter head shot linked.

Critique is very much welcomed as I'm just starting up with photography (well starting to take it seriously anyway)

Took them both with my Canon 40D, 70-200mm EF F/4 L with a UV filter, edited with Apple's Aperture 3 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac.

The Whole Body shot was shot at 1/125s f/4 iso 250 and at 70mm

Tight shot was 1/100 f/4 iso 100 at 113mm.

As I said critique is very much welcomed.

Thanks Very Much

Martin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinbeale/4371049380/

[windrider86]

I like the pose and how clear the pooch is.
The back ground is somehwhat distracting tho. I might be inclined to clone out the latch right by its head and try and make the whole background more uniform. Cant always help the background you have to work with but you can change when its all said and done

[Visions]

Hello and welcome to DPS I am sure you will learn a lot. You have managed to capture a delightful pose with your dog shot however I agree that the background is not the best. You can do something about that with a bit of fiddling in Photoshop but it is better to try and get the shot right to begin with. When the pose is good like this and you are faced with a background you don't really want, move further away and zoom in - you have a good lens. Use as small an aperture as you can but if hand holding keep an eye on that shutter speed, too slow and you will get motion blur. With the reduced depth of field your background will be thrown right out of focus and will no longer be a problem.
You have a wonderful subject to work with, go and have some fun!
AJ

[ctcook]

Dido on the background. You could try bluring the background in PP. Luckily their is a lot of contrast between the subject and the background, that should help you select the background. I wish I could get my dog to pose for me like that.

[lowbone]

This is a great shot of your dog but the background is way too bright. I viewers eye goes right to the brightest part of a photo and in this case it isn't your main subject. I realize that with a black background you wouldn't be able to see the dog at all but darkening the present baclground or using a different background entirely, one that you could blur with a larger aperture would help your dog photography quite a bit