What the heck - have I seriously not posted anything to this blog since July? Yikes, time is going tooooooo fast. And I have oodles of photos from the past couple of months, not least the 1600 pictures from mine & Lorne's trip to Europe in August - namely, a soggy, cold, blustery and flash-flood week visiting family in England, followed by a cool, grey but drier week in the Czech republic, mostly in the fantastic city of Prague. What a place!
So, while I work my way through those photos (which reminds me, I don't think I ever even finished my Germany photos from last year), I thought I'd quickly post a couple of pet portraits I've shot recently.
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| Eeeeeeazy like Sunday morning. |
Firstly there's our own enormous bundle of fur and cuteness, Louis. Suffice to say he loves basking in the sun as it pours through the window of our second bedroom. (Well, it's more of a den than a bedroom, since you'd be hard pushed to get anything larger than a pet-bed in there anyway.)
I purposefully shot this f1.8 to create a very shallow depth of field, highlighting his paw but capturing the lazy, snooziness of his overall demeanour. He was the perfect model.
The next image is of a wonderfully loyal dog patiently waiting for his owner outside of a coffee shop on Main Street. I used the same lens (my 50mm f1.8 portrait lens) again for a shallow depth of field, to highlight his soft, soulful eyes as he waited so calmly. Well, I say 'he' but he might actually be a she.
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| Patiently waiting. Dog Days on Main Street. |
My Lightroom/Photoshop editing skills are really very basic. In fact I hardly touch my photos afterwards other than a minor tweek of contrast, exposure of colour temperature as needed. But for this pic I felt it warranted an olde-worlde look. I like the effect. I only wish I'd actually looked at his/her collar to get a name - I like to think of these captures as unique moments where two lives touch and the picture holds that moment in infinity. It doesn't seem right to not know the name. :-(
