Thanks, Brian. On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Bruce Walker <[email protected]>: > >> Lest I become known as that tiresome guy who only posts pix of pretty >> women, here's a dog too. :-) >> >> http://goo.gl/2HkSk > > > > Great portrait - she should be very pleased. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > >> >> This is our vet, Dr. Gitte Fenger DVM, left, and Tessa, our German >> Short Haired Pointer, right. Dr. Fenger is having an open house at her >> clinic in April to help promote her practice, and my wife is helping >> out with some promo to the local papers and such. So enter Mr. >> Photographer, me. >> >> As soon as Dr. Fenger spotted me with the big black SLR and the 50-135 >> with its hood on, she went into deer-caught-in-the-headlamps mode. >> Took me a lot of shots until she became relaxed again. But she adores >> animals so as she interacted with the dog she became herself. Useful >> trick that's worked before. :-) >> >> I took this in the afternoon in her main consultation room, with its >> large north-west facing windows. All found light, no flash. I did >> notice that the matrix metering was fooled by something so I went >> manual and incident-metered the light. >> >> Seems the more I shoot, the less I rely on automation. Is this some >> sort of creeping curmudgeonalization setting in? >> >> K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ f/4, 125th, ISO 400. >> >> I wish Tessa's nose was less soft, but I'd have had to stop down and >> either add the flash or up the ISO, and I was running out of time. Oh >> well, what ya gonna do? >> >> Comments welcome but unlikely due to the content. ;-) >> >> -- > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.
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