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by fawndallas on 03 August 2012 - 00:08
Wow, so beautiful.
by swingfield on 03 August 2012 - 01:08
oh oh.. and also.. on your smartphone..(if you have one).. on the camera settings is a "sport" shot.. (for moving images) to freeze without blurring.. and then select multi shot.. it shoots off 5-6 shots in like 2 seconds! great for a slow trot and you might get 1 or 2 the correct stack position of walking!! I had to do this once.. by myself.. aggravated and frustrated was an understatement !!! good luck Fawn,.,.sherry
@daryl... nice picture !! beautiful pup and nice bone!!
@daryl... nice picture !! beautiful pup and nice bone!!
by vonissk on 03 August 2012 - 02:08
Another thing that might help--and I am no expert--start stacking your puppies on a table or even a dryer with a towel on it. As a retired groomer I found that having dogs on a table made them easier to work with. As a newbie to all the showing biz I have found they do better on a table. Some people put them with their front feet at the edge of the table, some people use 4 veggie cans to teach a puppy to stack. And it's true what everyone said about needing at least 3 people--very hard to stack a puppy and take pics alone too.
by Ramage on 03 August 2012 - 02:08
I've done it with two and a ball (have camera guy throw ball and then snap tons of pics) and I've also done the cat method. The cat method is by far the best.
by Dawulf on 03 August 2012 - 03:08
Here you go... It really isn't the best stack, and we've gotten better... I actually had her staying standing in a pretty good stack tonight, but it's dark out and she is out of coat... So maybe in a month or two we'll get a better one for the PDB!
I nit-pick on this shot... it is better than the one I had up before it, but too much going on in the background, and the sun was in the wrong spot... plus her legs need to be more square under her shoulders... and she is on a slope... Her back end at least didn't turn out THAT bad. :P
And the look on her face is just... LOL
I nit-pick on this shot... it is better than the one I had up before it, but too much going on in the background, and the sun was in the wrong spot... plus her legs need to be more square under her shoulders... and she is on a slope... Her back end at least didn't turn out THAT bad. :P
And the look on her face is just... LOL
by Ramage on 03 August 2012 - 03:08
Here is a 5 month old puppy we used the two person and a ball method with. Camera guy threw the ball out and in front of the puppy, who then struggled to go get the ball. I held the puppy until he calmed down, camera guy took tons of pics, puppy kept focusing on ball, then after 5 minutes of torture I let the puppy go get his ball and this was the best shot out of about 50.
and this is the cat method. If it weren't for that darn front leg being out too far, it would have been a great stack. The puppy stood like a statue for about 2 minutes just staring at the cat, but I totally missed that one leg being too far out (was too worried about back legs).
and this is the cat method. If it weren't for that darn front leg being out too far, it would have been a great stack. The puppy stood like a statue for about 2 minutes just staring at the cat, but I totally missed that one leg being too far out (was too worried about back legs).
by darylehret on 03 August 2012 - 03:08
@ swingfield, thanks for bringing to my attention some of my phone's features. I don't have a "sport" mode, but I am able to change the ISO settings from "auto" to something high like 400, 800 or 1250. Lots of other features I didn't know about, like brightness, saturation, contrast, sharpness, white balance, and metering mode. Changing the metering mode from "average" to "center" might alleviate some delays in focusing as well.
by Ramage on 03 August 2012 - 03:08
and another two person and a ball method. This was a 12 month old who had zero training. A little bit of work on her staying still when told (about 10 minutes) and then we threw the ball.
by darylehret on 03 August 2012 - 04:08
This pic of Riley at 5 months was the only one I can find that had two people involved. The person is only a few feet from her, and so she's looking too steeply upward, IMO.
by yellowrose of Texas on 03 August 2012 - 05:08
oops
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