I always try to get mirrored photos, and I'm never really happy with them. This one happened totally unplanned. I've got the best dog ❤️
Really great shot. Really. You can sell this.
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I'm super happy with this one. So glad Bowie helped out.
I do a calendar for Christmas, I think this would make an awesome addition for 2025.
Hell yeah. Great calendar. Could probably get a good price on the dog, too. Handsome feller.
Eh we're kind of attached to him now
Bowie knew what you were after, he's got your back
He even got the composition right. I was at the limit of my zoom at the other end of the pool, if I was closer I would have probably made the image too tight.
What a beautiful whippet!
Probably a large ask of your doggo, but have you tried a slightly long-term exposure? I know longer term exposures will smooth out the ripples and provide a better glass-like reflection, but I’m unsure how long that would be, and whether or not your dog would willingly sit there for that long.
Oh heck. I usually have to shoot around 1/800th of a second to avoid a blurry dog. Indoor I'll go as low as 1/160th because Bowie is better at posing.
To even out water I'd need to shoot a 1 second exposure at least 😄(I've tried these in the past) it's not happening 😁
Though... I do wonder if a 1/160th would be enough to even out the water a little 🤔🤔🤔 because you're right it's pretty jittery
“He’s vibrating!” LOL
Honestly it's just hard for me to think about exposures and camera settings when doing Bowie photos, I tend to be pretty reactive.
Another, more Photoshop heavy solution is to take multiple photos in burst mode (say, 5x 1/800) and then load them all in a single Photoshop file, align them, and do median blending. This should smooth out the ripples as well I think, although I'd only apply this to the bottom to ensure you don't get artifacts on doggo.
Interesting! I did shoot this in burst. Gonna jump into lightroom to see how many I took with this pose.
Thanks for the tip!
Now rotate it 180° and put it on the wall.
At first glance it looked like a dog on a stick.
Beautiful