The parts that make up a dog

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Steve

Title had me worried but the shots are good, how did you get your spaniel to sit still long enough to take 3 differently focused shots.

Clumber love <3 Gorgeous!

xx

Nice set Steve!

It's either Bengo or Jagson LOL

Nice idea Steve.

Guessing Jago, the flower/fungi destroyer! beautiful eyes, and love his squishy nose

Well I don't know about dogs, except I love the scuffy ones with cute faces and are grateful for a good home but the photography and PP is excellent. I'd suggest we all learn a bit about sharpness in our images from these. That 5D Mk2 seems to produce some lovely vibrant, well coloured and sharp images. Appreciated lenses and PP are significant in this. Are you able to give a run through Steve on any PP done with these? The whites are just under control and good control of DoF. Very good work in my opinion.

(Insignificant point but if I started again, or for those looking to start, consider the original Canon 5D. It's a great camera. I have looked through many 'readers pics' (oops, nearly said readers wives!) in photo mags and a significant portion winning landscapes etc. are on the 5D. Loads around secondhand for approx £800. The Nikon D300 etc. is better built and performs very well, but full frame is the way to go I'm sure. Shame this canon 5D Mk2 is somewhere around the £2K mark just for the body.)

Great sequence

I always shoot in Raw files so the first thing is to download from the card onto the computer using Lightroom. Lightroom saves them to my 1tb harddrive and also copies them to an external 1TB harddrive. It renames the file into a format I like (date image taken + image number from camera file name eg 20090715_2718)

Then still in Lightroom I adjust if necessary exposure, fill, recovery, white balance, curves, hue, saturation or any of the numerous other controls there are. These adjustments do not alter the original file but are kept in a sidecar file so when you open an image in Lightroom it reads the sidecar file and adjusts the look of the image on screen to reflect how it will appear when exported.

With these images very little had to be done to them but I did just tweek them a little with saturation, sharpening and fill, I also used one of my favourite tools in Lightroom, Clarity. Hard to explain what it does but do a search on google and there is information on it.

After the adjustments I use a plugin within Lightroom that exports the images straight to Flickr. There are many options within this plugin like the file type, size, tags, which collection you would like to put it and sharpening and much much more.

You can opt to save a copy to you hard drive if you wish but I do not bother as I can always download it from Flickr if need be.

All this and the original CR2 file has not been altered in any way.

Gawd, where would I be without Lightroom

Steve

Thanks for the explanation Steve.