dog behind bars

[crisioo]

hi, I tried to remeber the tips from one of the newsletters I received from the site - the one with zoo pictures, where it says about taking pictures of animals that are behind bars...

well, the dog in picture is in someone back yard, not at the zoo, but do you believe is the the dog centered ok? is there enought light on him ?



I used a nikon d90, 18-105mm

Camera:	Nikon D90
Exposure:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture:	f/5.6
Focal Length:	105 mm
ISO Speed:	200

[leonaashlee]

WELCOME to DPS Crisioo
Nice shot...for me I would have probably moved a little to the left...to get the whole dog clear and I would have cropped it very close to remove the bars altogether if possible....

[alphasco]

Cute doggy!

Actually, this forum is just for sharing (there is another: "Critique my photos" or something like that for making suggestions and judgements), but since you asked, here are a couple of suggestions.

I checked the Flickr version and saw that the dog is in good sharp focus; a little more light would be nice, but a bit of work in PhotoShop could fix that.

You might have, but if you had the camera lens closer to the bars, even touching them, you could have eliminated the bars entirely. In thin wire cages, simply focusing on the subject behind the wires or bars make the wires/bars almost disappear, but these appear pretty large, so that might not help.

[Thomas.H1]

Welcome to DPS.
This dog is really a cutie and the photo has me singing "How much is that dogie in the window," even though there is no window involved.
You have the right idea about using the DOF to blur out the bars. Of course, avoiding the bars altogether is the best option whenever it is possible to do so. I think the exposure could have been a 1/2 stop or so more exposed, but you could do that in photoshop or most post processing editing software. You certainly have enough detail to manipulate the exposure.
That being said, this is a very nice picture. It invokes a sense of sympathy for the dog who appears trapped in a closed environment (the pound, animal shelter or something of that sort). Your explanation tells the truth about location, but the picture still invokes that sense for me.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[crisioo]

thank you all for the comments. Nicole helped me, by moving the thread to the critique area, so it's posted ok now.

thanks for the suggestions. right now I know to little about working in photoshop, so I am using different softwear to edit photos, free ones but I am trying to get photoshop so I will learn some more about post processing.
it's great to have other's opinions, for eg I never saw that it would look better if the doggy was more to the left... I gues I still have to learn how to look at photos.

thanks again, I will post soon other photos

[windrider86]

Next time, place your lens right up against the bars. That way you'll not get them in the photo at all