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Challenge: Old and New (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A70
Location: house
Date: Jan 23, 2005
Aperture: F/3.5
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Emotive, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 23, 2005

These dogs are not actually related but they do favor one another quite a bit.

One is just under 3 years old while the other is about 7 weeks.

I'm pretty knew to photography and have had no training so I'm open to critism. The flash in their eyes is probably not a good thing.

Statistics
Place: 243 out of 245
Avg (all users): 2.7610
Avg (commenters): 2.3846
Avg (participants): 2.6667
Avg (non-participants): 2.8125
Views since voting: 1218
Views during voting: 391
Votes: 272
Comments: 28
Favorites: 1 (view)


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02/02/2005 04:08:47 AM
I would suggest a shot of them together maybe sitting with very good light so you don't have to worry about a flash. Since your beginning a studio is probably not available but those lights would help a lot with their fur color and with the cameras inability to focus sharply on them. It would also get rid of the cluttered background. You could hang a light colored sheet over the edge of the table for a backdrop and open windows and turn on lights.

Keep trying, you'll get it.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/01/2005 06:25:40 PM
cute dogs, need to work on your lighting.
02/01/2005 05:01:37 PM
Ahhhhh. Focusing issues.
02/01/2005 01:40:05 AM
really a bad pic, what a mess and unsharp and the EYES???
01/30/2005 07:58:42 PM
aw! Cute pups! Unfortunatly, way too much clutter and noise. Pic could be cropped and background blurred to focus more on the dogs. Red eye should be removed and clarity and sharpness upped.
01/30/2005 11:21:15 AM
Is out of focus. Bright eyes are distracting. It is hard to capture a dog though. This shot has potential.
01/30/2005 07:26:19 AM
Please, don't use flash when photographing pets!!! It harms their eyes!

The idea is nice, but the background is too busy and the dogs too much out of focus. I don't find any conscious composition or lighting, and colours are pale a bit, too. Use of flash in pets eyes needs to be avoided!
01/29/2005 08:22:47 AM
The idea is good but could have been planned a little better, clutter in background is distracting...flash is also reflecting the eyes.
01/28/2005 03:04:47 PM
cute shot. The clarity isn't the greatest, and the background is a bit busy, but it certianly is a dear picture to tuck away in a family album.
01/28/2005 01:02:21 PM
Extremely out of focus and your background could sue some work...
You'll find that snapshots don't do well here, you need to think out what you're going to shoot before you pick up the camera. Don't just enter a picture that may fit the challenge after it's taken.
01/27/2005 08:41:49 PM
Oh, a good idea gone wrong.... If you had only isolated the dogs against a background and had the dogs in focus, this could have been a better photo.
01/27/2005 04:55:39 PM
Cute picture, but a little out of focus and too much "red eye".
01/27/2005 02:34:32 PM
This is badly out of focus.
01/27/2005 12:52:37 PM
Too much clutter around subjects
01/27/2005 12:48:35 PM
I don't like the glare in the eyes, and there's too many things laying around in the shot. A picture with just the dogs as main focus would be nice.
01/27/2005 11:43:46 AM
I am new, so I may be wrong. But, it looks like a flash was used which would produce the bright eyes and, the photo looks very blurry. Otherwise, beautiful dogs.
01/27/2005 09:16:08 AM
I'm afriad that I really can't give this much of a score as its completely out of focus. Cute puppy though :)
01/27/2005 08:01:48 AM
just too off focus
01/27/2005 07:49:17 AM
Oh my god these dogs are robots !! .......I'm just joking...but their eyes are scary !
01/27/2005 03:38:18 AM
need to work on the focus, and the eyes..I know we cant edit them out, but maybe less flash would have helped..also the messy background is distracting.
01/26/2005 07:29:16 PM
2 - PM me if you want why.
01/26/2005 06:20:35 PM
Good subject, bad picture
01/26/2005 09:18:54 AM
I like dogs, but have to say that this picture lacks any appeal. Just an average snapshot, with no care taken in using the flash (3)
01/26/2005 04:10:53 AM
Snapshot. Distracting background. Glowing eyes in dogs
01/26/2005 04:06:33 AM
Slightly noisy, and light from the eyes is a bit distracting. Cute concept though :)
01/26/2005 12:43:12 AM
This is out of focus. Don't use a flash straight on with dogs or you will get that awful 'hell-hound' look from the eyes.

Cuties, but sorry - this is a snapshot.
01/25/2005 08:41:37 PM
This picture is out of focus.
01/25/2005 08:14:52 PM
way out of focus, eyes are blown out, lots of clutter. might have been better to wait till they were sleeping or trying to get them set up with some sort of backdrop.


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