Kona's Thread
I take a lot of pics of Kona, because he is always outside and is difficult to photograph [and I really like him]. I figured I would start a thread dedicated to his pics, the ones that I feel are worth sharing.
Hope you guys enjoy!
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Hope you guys enjoy!
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Comments
Looking at them I had a thought. The background is totally blown out so you can see the detail on his face. Maybe you should try to HDR some of his photos? Doing it on camera might be a pain because I suspect he doesn't keep still very long (and you'd probably need a tripod), but isn't there some software that lets you HDR photos in RAW format? Just a thought.
Great spam!
I had 2 different "exposures" of one pic, so I tried it - not sure I got the best result since the 2 "exposures" were not that different, but here is the result...
Next time I will purposely shoot him at different settings in order to get a better result after HDR.
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HDR:
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ETA: I think his brindle shows a bit more clearly in the HDR version too.
I'll be curious to see how things work out!
Also, your camera should automatically do exposure adjustments for HDR. If you go into the settings menu, there is an "AEB" adjustment (Auto Exposure Bracketing) that allows you to dial up to +/- 2 stops. On mine, AEB is right above the flash exposure compensation (FEV). I think you can get 1/3 stop increments. So, if you set it to 1 stop, your camera will then automatically take three pictures in a row at -1 stop, neutral, and +1 stop which you can then HDR using CS3.
For the HDR, even if you just have one RAW file, you can make 3 jpegs out of it, with the exposure corrected in CS3. One to -1stop, another to +1stop, and one as is. Then you can combine those. This way you can retrieve some far out, almost clipped highlights, and boost the under exposed parts of his face, while keeping what is well exposed as is.
In that HDR, it seems like it only boosted the low lights, blowing the highlights in the process. But you definitely can see more detail on Kona.
I'm not a photo expert, but you can definitely see more of Kona's face in HDR. The right side of the original had a great deal of shadowing. Though, i did notice too, that the posts in the background have whitened/softened in color too.
Love Kona! You could take a picture of him with a cell phone & you'd still have an amazing shot
I probably took 50 shots of him yesterday and only 4 came out due to the lighting from the snow [back light].
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I have no idea what it'd be like to shoot with all that snow around. I imagine I'd get very frustrated, so kudos to you! ~
I love the first one (perhaps a desktop photo?) I had one of Kona on my desktop a while back (I'm constantly changing my desktop image), and everyone wanted to know if that was my dog. I told them it was the dog I wanted, and then had to add "well, not the exact dog, cause he belongs to someone else...but I would love one just like him..." And then of course they wanted to know if "the owners" knew a "complete stranger" was putting a pic of their dog on the desktop... I am pretty sure they thought I was nuts.
there was a little Kai look alike at the park this past weekend, and I kept trying to get a closer look, but no luck.
In these pics I was trying to make him look "tough".
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Great pics!
Anyone watch the neverending story - the first one: the first two pics of Kona remind me a little of the G'Mork... Of course Kona is much less sinister.