Posted in dogs, photos, tagged border collie, dogs, lightroom, photography, photos on February 26, 2009| 3 Comments »
I think I went a little overboard with the editing of this photo. But I actually kind of like it. It looks….fake, for sure…but it looks almost…comic booky. Or there’s a silverish tint to it. I don’t know; I can’t quite put my finger on it. But I like it, I know that much.
Posted in dogs, photos, tagged aperture, border collie, canon, depth of field, dogs, dslr, lightroom, nikon, photography, photos, slr on February 19, 2009| 5 Comments »
So for my birthday last October, my amazing husband got me a Nikon D80. I’ve always loved photography; I think I get that from my dad. I through my childhood, I remember he had this really cool Canon camera that was completely off limits to us kids — and was only brought on when the situation was worthy enough. Once I got older, he wold try to teach me things about aperture and exposure and ISO and light meters. But he might as well have been speaking Latin. I couldn’t, for the life of me, understand all that “photog” talk. For my college graduation, my parents bought me a Canon Rebel SLR (aka a 35mm film camera). And I loved using it…on auto mode. But it was also discouraging in the sense that whatever photo I took was final. No previewing, no editing. FINAL. And not knowing any of the cool settings, I almost felt like it was a waste of film and money experimenting with the settings. And then by the time I actually did get around to developing the photos, I wouldn’t remember which photos were in taken in which settings.
And that’s the beauty of a digital SLR for the amateur photographer: you can actually learn the different settings hands-on and see the differences right there on the screen in front of you. On the day I took the above photo, I felt like experimenting with depths of field. I’ll post other comparisons a little bit later on. This one, while most of the photos I took are of Pepper in focus, I decided to get creative and focus on some of the wild grass in the foreground, thus making Pepper blurry.
If you are the type that shoots on auto-mode, AND you have a digital, flip it to A mode (if you have Nikon) or Av mode (for Canon), and practice this depth of field. (A is for aperture, you know.) I guarantee it’s loads of fun!
Another fun tool on photographs: photo editing software. I use Adobe Lightroom (it’s gobs cheaper than Photoshop).
Posted in dogs, photos, tagged border collie, dogs, julian, photos on February 13, 2009| 2 Comments »
Posted in dogs, photos, tagged border collie, dogs, herding, sheep, sheep herding on February 5, 2009| 1 Comment »
My little one loves her some sheep. If she could, she would herd them all day long. And even after being so tired she can’t run around them any longer, she would be more than happy to pin them in a corner and stare them still…all day long. Our little border collie, who bounced from shelter to shelter until we rescued her, has found her life’s calling: sheep.
pure ingredients 