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A week or so of walking :)
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Yes, these taken with a Nikon D3 and 85mm f1.4 prime. Thanks everyone for the kind words.
Gary.
Hi Pauline,
What I am doing is all in camera. The effect I think you are seeing is known as "Shallow Depth of Field". Basically, by changing the "Aperture" of the camera, you are able to blur things dramatically in front of and behind your subject. Therefore using an extremely shallow Depth of Field, and focusing on Baxter, he should be pin sharp, and everything around him melts.
I take a lot of photos that way, as I feel it helps pop your subject to life, and remove a lot of distractions from the scene. When everything is blurred and melted around the focal point, you are normally instantly drawn to the focal point and the focal point should keep your attention more.
If everything is sharp and in focus, the eyes can wander and at times, settle in the wrong area.
Thanks for the nice comments everyone, really appreciate it.
Gary.
Brian M
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Hi Gary
Great photos again from you ,I feel I can put my hand out and stroke them.I am still messing around with the SB-900 flashgun impressed with it ,I have set my D80 on A Priority with th 85mm f.4 ,shutter speed 1/50 ISO 640 but I am not getting your pics ,still have a lot of learning and snapping ahead of me .Any guidance on my settings.
Great photos again from you ,I feel I can put my hand out and stroke them.I am still messing around with the SB-900 flashgun impressed with it ,I have set my D80 on A Priority with th 85mm f.4 ,shutter speed 1/50 ISO 640 but I am not getting your pics ,still have a lot of learning and snapping ahead of me .Any guidance on my settings.
katc10
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Gary,
I see you post your photos on flickr, do you mind sharing the link to your site? Mine is http://www.flickr.com/photos/katc10/.
Kelly
I see you post your photos on flickr, do you mind sharing the link to your site? Mine is http://www.flickr.com/photos/katc10/.
Kelly
Sorry seem to have missed this!!
Yes the parrot is mine, lives with my mum though as she is out of work. Keep each other company
I will go look at previous question,
Gary.
OK lets ignore the flash for the time being. If you are able to get the dogs outside, great. Take someone along for help!
- Stick the camera on Aperture Priority.
- Choose f1.4.
- Choose Continuous Focus (C as opposed to S or M)
- Put it on high speed repetitive shooting
- Lie on the ground (Very important to get the head on view of Dog).
- Now call on ONE DOG to start with, from a distance of say, 40 to 50 feet
- Focus and shoot as much as possible as doggy runs to you
If you follow all these instructions, in a area with nice clutter free backgrounds (Big fields etc), you should get some awesome shots. In fact, the background should not matter hugely, as the f1.4 will melt it away.
Gary.