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Richard Chapman | all galleries >> Private >> Picture a day >> January 2009 picture-a-day > Jan 2 - Sleeping dog
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02-JAN-2009

Jan 2 - Sleeping dog

Trying to keep up with the January themes of "minimalist" and "flash". Not sure it's really that minimalist though...

Experimenting here with a slave flash off to the side, using the 580EX on-camera just to trigger, but I think I got more spill from the triggering flash than I intended. I need to work out how to get the master to act ONLY as a trigger and not actually fire itself.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II
1/60s f/4.5 at 55.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Sam X29-Jan-2009 22:33
great pov and very cute
Russ Rose05-Jan-2009 17:55
It works for both with me. I like how you placed the camera on the floor with the off camera flash. nice idea.
Mairéad05-Jan-2009 15:35
Love the POV on this - and there's minimal colour
as the dog matches the flooring, or vice versa.
carol j. phipps05-Jan-2009 04:48
Excellent point of view; gives the feel of being below the dog! Very nice!
Jola Dziubinska05-Jan-2009 00:19
Cute and touching shot.
jlm03-Jan-2009 19:35
It seems a good dog ;-)
Nice shot!
Denise J. Johnson03-Jan-2009 04:40
I agree about the master/trigger flash. It's hard to find a happy medium between the two. I seems like this has a nice lighting to it, however. The fur is clear and I don't think anything is necessarily 'blown out". Nice shot of that pup.
Gary Winters03-Jan-2009 04:13
This is a minimalism shot under the "ACTION!" genre. LOL
Kerry Tingley03-Jan-2009 01:02
What a sweetie. Great shot.
Máire Uí Mhaicín02-Jan-2009 22:46
A good image, and not even minimal disturbance of the dog. Let sleeping dogs lie!
Jeff Lobaugh02-Jan-2009 22:40
Still in all this is a good image. Photographing white subjects can be difficult without blowing out the highlights. As far as minimalism, there appears to be minimal energy being exerted here.