My first paid shoot (sort of)

[NetMagi]

My boss's wife got wind of the fact that I was sporting a fancy new whiz-bang packed camera. She asked if I could get some photographs of her dogs to place around the house (her dogs are her children).

I didn't really get paid for the shoot, but I did all of the shooting and PP work on company time instead of my regular duties, so I count that as getting paid

The shots are nothing spectacular. I quickly discovered it is REALLY hard to get 2 dogs to look cute or even behave simultaneously. It got to the point where if they were both looking at the lens I had to just be satisfied

Above all else the speed of the D70 really shined. I shot in continuous mode, and probably took a burst of 10-15 pics everytime the shot looked like it might work.

4 pics:

http://gallery.netmagi.com/album40



-Rich

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Good shots Magi!
I like how you think, doing your play during paid work times! haha

I think your biggest problem would have been getting the dogs to sit and stay! How long did it take you? Shooting continous would have helped!

[KerryPierce]

The indoor shots turned out very nicely, Rich. The outdoor shots have blown whites. IME, a low contrast setting in camera plus a -.3 to -.7EV setting on the camera will often do well on brightly lighted, white subjects.

[sirhc55]

NetMagi - Shot #4 is a classic, they almost look as if a taxidermist had a hand in the posing.

[dooda]

Those are good shots, and I think you're right. It's like trying to get two kids to behave while sitting on Santa's knee, they don't really like to.