Stray pets in abundance here…
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/5.6, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 50mm
D800, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 50mm
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It’s hard to tell a dog that there are appropriate sizes for everyone.
Especially this particular cutie seemed to be determined to bring back anything you threw away. I tried with a log I just managed to lift and he went after it and tried to drag it back. To no avail, of course 😀
D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/8, Nikkor 70-200mm
Oh, and challenge of the day:
Try panning this!
D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 70-200mm
Just because she’s SO cute…
D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/6.7, Tamron 90mm macro, 2x off-camera SB-800
But then again… She is so much more patient with me. And she doesn’t mind if I stuff a macro lens right up in her face. At least not immediately…
D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/6.7, Tamron 90mm macro, 2x off-camera SB-800
It would’ve been a great day to go out shooting, but I haven’t really been feeling all that well. I guess the structural 4-5 hour nights of sleep are finally catching up with me. Tonight’s early to bed. For real.
In the mean time you’ll just have to settle with some more pet-images. They’re an easy subject/target. And like me they’re having a lovely lazy Sunday.
There’s some weird interaction going on between cat and turtle, though. Or… It’s more one-directional interaction.
D700, ISO800, 1/250 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 70-200mm, off-camera SB-800
And the other cat just doesn’t care. He sleeps and sleeps, and sleeps, and eats, and sleeps, and sleeps…
D700, ISO800, 1/250 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 70-200mm, off-camera SB-800
Awhile back I wrote a blog entry about Pet Portraits, in which our cats seem to have the habit of strategically positioning themselves so that they can overview, but disappear in a moment, too. Lately I’ve been catching -especially- Cassandra doing this peek-a-boo game with me. Yesterday I caught her again. She’s so übercute when she does that! 😀 Maybe I should make a peek-a-boo series…?
D700, ISO200, 1/320 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 70-200mm, off-camera SB-800
Lacking the presence of the Better Half in the house, I’ve felt the pressing need to find another girl. Luckily there’s a really pretty one living close by, and we went for a walk in the forest the other day. It was a beautiful day. A tad bit overcast, which made the lane a bit dark, but otherwise it was great. The birds were happily chirping and tweeting away and only in the distance was there a sound of human presence. Unfortunately the girl was more interested in the birds. Or bird. Or… part of the bird… I guess she was hungry. Well, she got her part of the bird and happily crunched it away. So much for a romantic date.
(no Photoshopping in this picture. Everything you see was as-is 😉 ).
D700, ISO200, 1/320 sec @ f/9.5, Nikkor 50mm, on-camera flash
Last Saturday we were invited at a friend’s place for lunch. Oh, and to take some pictures. She’s got two lovely Egyptian Maus. One silver spotted and one black smoke, absolutely gorgeous cats. And we got to play around a bit with them.
Mauno, the silver spotted one, was a bit more cooperative than Eppu, the black smoke one, but I think things turned out very nicely. (More about Mauno and Eppu here and here).
We started with the “boring” stuff. Please, sit still, and look up. Head slightly more to the left… No, that’s too much… A bit back… That’s good. Chin up a bit more… nonono, not that much… cat nip is a bit lower…
D700, ISO800, 1/125 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 70-200mm
D700, ISO1600, 1/125 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 70-200mm
Eppu wasn’t too much in the mood of activity, so we did a couple of extra chin-ups with him
D700, ISO400, 1/125 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 70-200mm
But after that we got onto the funky stuff…
D700, ISO400, 1/320 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 70-200mm, 2x off-camera SB-800 with Photoflex softbox
D700, ISO400, 1/320 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 70-200mm, 2x off-camera SB-800 with Photoflex softbox
D700, ISO400, 1/320 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 70-200mm, 2x off-camera SB-800 with Photoflex softbox
The next one’s actually slowly starting to become my favorite. Not because it’s fantastic, but it’s so elegant. Mauno’s got style. Put him in a tail-coat and he can… well… Never mind 😀
This picture does remind me very much of the fairy tale “The Master Cat” (Puss in Boots).
D700, ISO400, 1/320 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 70-200mm, 2x off-camera SB-800 with Photoflex softbox
And then, well… after an afternoon of jumping… Also Mauno had enough and called it a day.
D700, ISO400, 1/320 sec @ f/11, Nikkor 70-200mm, 2x off-camera SB-800 with Photoflex softbox
It’s not always all easy and lazy, photographing cats lazying on a warm lamp or on the bed. Sometimes it takes a bit more than just pulling the camera out of the bag.
Our friends have a beautiful German Shepherd. She was quite patient and willing and jumped up and down in the snow for the most part of an hour while I tried to get the right shots, which in the end wasn’t all that easy, focusing in the dark on a moving subject… But… in the end I think I managed to get a few good ones anyway.
D700, ISO3200, 1/250 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 70-200mm, 2x SB-800 fired remotely on both sides of the dog.
D700, ISO3200, 1/250 sec @ f/4, Nikkor 70-200mm, 2x SB-800 fired remotely on both sides of the dog