Sable color changes - Page 2

Life is never dull with a sable GSD around, I think you have to own one to fully appreciate them, thanks for sharing Macrowe1.

Beautiful and such lovely dark colouring! Thanks for posting

Pretty pup, but looks like the lighting isn't the best and she appears almost too enhanced.  The green grass and the redish/orange on the dog are really too "contrasting" and gives the dog an unnatural color appearance, if that makes sense.  Also look at the bottom of the fence in the one picture. You can see it there also. JMO

My dog Woody has/is doing the same thing. He was a dark puppy then got a lot lighter but kept a distinked black stripe down the back of his body. He is now 7 months and has gone back to being darking.

I think as the sables get older, you don't realise they are still changing. I think mine have all got to at least 3 or 4 before they have stopped changing, and then they go grey.Lol. I took my youngster training today, and people that haven't seen him since last year at the shows, all commented on how much darker he looks. I don't notice.

Yea I love to see the changes they go through! Oh, and sorry that my grass is "too green" for you. I'll make sure to tell our yard man not to treat it this year. It wouldn't matter if I took her next to a building, on concrete, or whatever, She's extremely dark with really red undertones. Her dam is a red sable, extremely red for a sable, her sire is a really dark sable with red undertones. Sorry she looks too red and that my grass is too green. I'll try to take a stack picture outside today since our grass is no longer a pretty green from summer. Still the same colors on the dog :)

macrowe1: You are saying that you did not alter that picture in any way? I am sure she is red sable, but those pictures are oversaturated....

I don't know how to use saturation. I only use photobucket or the picture editor on my computer to crop and adjust the pictures with the autofix. Only thing I can think was the first was a picture from the breeder, the couple in the middle were taken with my Canon camera, which has a vibrant setting that I typically used. Then the last was taken with my new Nikon, which I'm still trying to figure out. The only thing I know how to do is crop or do the autofix with the crap editor on my computer, or use photobucket to do cool effects on the pictures, add texts, and only have certain things colored in the picture. It takes too long to try to figure out how to use every little detail on the editor, especially when I take a lot of pictures, or club pictures, and so I pick ones I like, crop them where I like them, hit autofix, and save. The ones I really like I'll upload to photobucket and make them look cracked or soft or sepia or black and white, or highlight only the dog and everything else be in black and white, or put their names in the picture. Everything else is done with the autobutton. The one red stack picture is a crap picture, one reason why it's not as clear looking as the others. But the only thing I can think is that it's the vibrant setting on the camera. The Canon had a vibrant setting, a sepia setting, normal setting, setting for flurescent lights, for low natural lights, bright natural lights, and a black and white setting. I typically used the vibrant setting because it produced better pictures. Here's some more picture, same camera, about the same time frame, same setting. The reason I got a new camera was to shoot better shots, because the Canon always had different tints on the pictures and I didn't like it. Like the stack picture, I liked the stack, but it was almost out of focus, and just a bad picture. The last picture was same time period, same camera, under the flurescent light setting for indoors. 







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same time as the really dark coat pictures: 

New camera, same editor autofix settings: