Rim Lighting

Fluffy Henry

Elegant Zachary

Still Elegant Zachary

Dog Blog Post #1981

As pretty much all of my pictures are taken at Night Using Flash, I changed things up a bit by putting the flash on the floor with a small softbox.

For most shots the flash is behind and to the right, creating a Shadowy figure and rim lighting.

While I preferred Zachary's more elegant profile and poses, Henry's bristly whiskers and fluffy ruff won me over in the end.

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Our Daily Challenge - Nov 25, 2015 - "Night Using Flash"

Daily Dog Challenge 1491. "Shadowy"

Zachary: "That is so not fair."

Henry: (blink blink blink)

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Golden Fluffs

Flickr (the host for my images) has an automated tagging "feature", that uses image recognition software to guess the contents of the image.

Usually, it does a reasonably good job.

Usually.

Today was not one of its better days.

For your viewing pleasure, I have included each image's autotags as the caption.

texture, landsape, wood, dune, macro, abstract

texture, food, people, plant, grass, wood, field, abstract, landscape 

people, texture, abstract, field, landscape, tangle

people, texture, landscape, field, food

texture, people, abstract

texture, abstract, wood, people, sand, depth of field, minimalism, field, landscape, pastel

Dog Blog Post #1980

Soft and fluffy :)

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An assortment of Golden Fluffs - the more unruly generally being from Henry and the more disciplined from Zachary.


Our Daily Challenge - Nov 25, 2015 - "Fill The Frame"

Daily Dog Challenge 1490. "Square"

texture, wood, wood laminate

Wood laminate?

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Wilting

Ready?

Henry: "Sleepy."

No, no.

Not sleepy.

Happy, perky...

Henry: "Drooping."

Drooping?

You haven't done a thing all day.

How can you be...

Henry: "Sinking."

Henry: "Slumping"

Henry: "Wilted"

(sigh)

Models.

Dog Blog Post #1979

Poor Henry's Wilted Head.

This is what happens if you leave your models sitting too long under the lights.

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Our Daily Challenge - Nov 25, 2015 - "Wilted"

Daily Dog Challenge 1489. "Head"

Faux Wilt

Zachary: "Wilted. I can do wilted. See me wilt?"

Editor's Note: No, of course they aren't REALLY wilting.

The only light on, other than the flash, is a cool florescent behind an umbrella.

They have a "head down" cue, which Henry (obviously) excels at, being a natural behavior of his that I reinforced and put on cue when he was in puppy class.

Zachary picked it up on his own after seeing Henry get Cookies for it, although (being Zachary) he tries just a bit too hard for it to ring true.

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Paws Crossed

Mr. Zachary

Mr. Henry

Best Friends Forever

Dog Blog Post #1978

That last shot (above) is Looking Down on Zachary and Henry's crossed paws masked atop a Black and gold Frax HD backdrop.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Nov 25, 2015 - "Looking Down"

Daily Dog Challenge 1488. "Black"

The Making Of...

Original Paws Crossed Shot

Original Frax HD image

Frax HD is an iPad app that creates Fractals.

It has many, many options to tailer the size, shape, density, color, texting, lighting... etc... and it's easy to use, too.

I keep meaning to upload some just for the heck of it but never quite get around it.

A real shame, actually, as I have hundreds (500? More?) of favorites saved on my iPad.

They are really fast to generate, and with a few small changes you can get wildly different images.

You can also import features (colors, textures, lighting...) of one into another.

Standard Disclaimer: Just a happy user, not reimbursed or coerced in any way. :)


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Happy Thanksgiving

Believe it or not, the shots below - all iPhone shots - have something in common for today's challenges...

Zachary's long eyelashes

Henry's long eyelashes

Henry's Fearsome Weaponry (with a bit of help from me)

Henry's guard hairs, with Zachary behind.

Any guesses what it is?

Dog Blog Post #1977

Merriam-Webster defines Fence as "a barrier intended to prevent escape or intrusion", which would technically make the boy's long eyelashes, fearsome teeth, and guard hairs a fence... of sorts.

Work with me here, it's Thanksgiving and I'm way too full of Turkey and the fixings to do anything more energetic than watch Football and pet the dogs, whose congenial presence on this happy day I am most Thankful for!

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Nov 25, 2015 - "Fence"

Daily Dog Challenge 1487. "Thankful"

Peace in Happy Valley

Sleepy Henry - with Zachary photo bombing behind

Henry asleep

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When We Grow Up

The Boys

Dog Blog Post #1976

The boys are still trying to decide what they want to be when they grow up.

So many things to choose from!

-- That would be Zacharys on the left and Henrys on the right - all taken today.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Nov 25, 2015 - "When I Grow Up"

Daily Dog Challenge 1486. "Layers"

Layers upon layers of Goldens!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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High Five

Zachary: "What's the plan?"

High-Five!

"Smack!"

Very nice!

One more?

"Thwack!"

Good job!

Dog Blog Post #1975

High-Five is one of Zachary's favorite tricks.

It's quick, it's easy, and he's very good at it.

Easy Cookies, you might say, as his paw smacks your hand with a satisfying, "Thwack".

Usually.

Although not so easy when I'm focused more on getting the shot using the remote than making sure my hand and his paw are going to connect.

Thankfully, Zachary is up to the challenge of my hand as a Moving Target.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Nov 14, 2015 - "Moving Target"


Daily Dog Challenge 1485. "Tag"

... you're it!

Gentle Henry

Henry's High Five's are like being kissed by butterfly wings...

"Tap"

"Touch"

... Soft, slow, and very gentle.

Blooper

"Whiff"

Oops... my bad.


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Monday Night Football

Zachary: "Score?"
Henry: "Same."

Time Passes...

"Zzzzzz"

Dog Blog Post #1974

By the glow of Monday Night Football, taken with my iPhone.

No filters tonight, just some basic slider pushing to knock down the worst of the digital noise.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Nov 23, 2015 - "Night Using Available Light"

Daily Dog Challenge 1484. "Low"

Henry's Profile

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Fall Dreams

Fall Dreams

Dog Blog Post #1973

The Chinese Pistache trees on our street are in full color right now, something that was probably lost on the dogs when they were out on their walk today.

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Nov 22, 2015 - "Look What I Saw Today"

Daily Dog Challenge 1483. "Show Me"

This is a pair of iPhone shots (below) - filtered, masked, and smushed together - as I (once again) spent way too much time watching Football.

My Teams Losing football.

In fact, all three teams I follow lost today, making their records for year 3-7, 4-6, and 2-8.

Ouch.

The Parts

I used Lightroom's adjustment brush to "paint" max-dark exposure over the parts of original image that I will ultimately mask out in Photoshop Elements.

Yes, I could use Photoshop's selection tools on the original image and save a step, but I actually find it faster to do it this way when the edges are poorly defined - as they were in this low-light iPhone shot.

Chinese Pistache

Grungy Chinese Pistache 

I used an iPad photo app to apply a "grunge" filter.

A finally "artsy" filter was added in Photoshop Elements to blend the edges of the two images together a bit better.

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Sleepy Puppy

Zachary - getting snuggly

Henry - getting comfy

Henry - feeling sleepy

Henry: "Zzzzzz"

Dog Blog Post #1972

Curling up under your favorite blanket, with it Falling all around you, is one of The Little Things that makes life more enjoyable.

Especially after a long day at the Day Spa.

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Our Daily Challenge - Nov 21, 2015 - "Falling"

Daily Dog Challenge 1482. "The Little Things"

Zachary: "Zzzzzz"

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On The Edge

Exploring edges...

Zachary - with a Cookie on the edge of this mouth

Henry - with Cookies on the edge of the jar

Zachary... clearly over the edge

Dog Blog Post #1971

Yay! The weekend is here!

Photography Assignment

Our Daily Challenge - Nov 20, 2015 - "On The Edge"

Daily Dog Challenge 1481. "Expressive"

Henry... no where near an edge

Zachary at attention - ready for any edges that might appear

Zachary - showing the edge of his tongue... or possibly his patience!

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