So I had this ‘vision’ of the concept I wanted to shoot today (you know, part of that 15 minute challenge I gave myself yesterday). I guess it could be titled, ‘A Girl and her Dog‘ and I was really looking forward to doing it.
SIDE NOTE: in case you don’t know me in real life, you might not know that I’m actually not much of an ‘animal person’. I can totally appreciate them for other people, but having one of my own? Not so much. I usually don’t talk about it very often … like when I agreed to do a family session at the family’s hobby farm … and had a terrifying moment when I thought the llamas were going to stampede me. Or spit on me. Cause everyone knows that llamas spit – right? And right before the potential stampede, the Mom tells me how a kick from a llama can be lethal and coyotes and mountain lions stay away if there’s llamas … nobody told me there were such safety hazards in Photography.
But today turned into another unforeseen stressful day, and I thought I was going to have to cancel my ‘shoot’. But then the stars aligned and everything got worked out and with about 30 minutes to spare before sundown, I took Claire outside and began to set up. Granted, it’s not like there were a ton of props needed, but it rained last night and I have to do some creative positioning because I either have a bunch of cars parked in driveways on one side of the house, or a big stop sign/street sign on the other side of the house. Plus, there’s our large garbage can near the garage … so I have to make sure I can position Claire in such a way that none of those things show (not sure I accomplished that entirely).
Oh yeah … it was also really cold out. So I think we lasted all of 8 minutes. So while I’m not thrilled with the results, at least I got something. Now I have to think of something new to do tomorrow … fun challenge … and hopefully I’ll get slapped across the face with some inspiration. Because right now … I got nothing.
Two questions: What mode did you shoot these picture in and did you edit them?
I’m not sure what mode … I think the ones where she was ‘walking’ I tried in Tv mode (I use a Canon by the way) and the ones where she is ‘standing still’ I used Av. Even though it may not look like it, the light was really starting to go, and I was trying to move fast as it was super cold out. They mostly turned out blurry, but I was grateful to have gotten SOMETHING! LOL OH – and I use ‘actions’ on all my photos … so everything is edited (color wise) that I post