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Some More Dog Photography Tips
By KRae Merk | March 15, 2010
Some of the biggest “wower” photos I get are ones that consist of dogs in a full out run and the photo freezes the motion with a blurred background and the dog in focus.
A trick I’ve learned is when you’re after those awesome blurred background photos, you need a high powered zoom lens. My favorite camera & lens for this job are the Nikon D300; Very fast (6 pictures a second), awesome white balance, reliable, very ergonomic, outstanding picture quality, & Nikon 70-300 zoom lens; its inexpensive, very sharp focus, fast, feels good in the hands, (looks good too).
The camera settings I use most of the time for outside are Programmed Auto with the white balance set for the current weather outside. Since most of my dog photography takes place outside and outside the lighting changes by the millisecond so using Shutter, Aperture, or Manual mode, my experiences have been not so good with these settings, now, I do use those settings in other situations, but not usually outside. I will cover the situations I use the other settings in future posts.
Getting back to the dog photography tips, when I’m taking photos with the idea of getting the wow shot I don’t take my finger off the shutter button with the knowledge that I can always delete the ones that aren’t worth saving later on the computer. Also, another tip is putting your camera on a tripod, but I hardly ever use a tripod for outside action dog photography, so I don’t get as clear photos sometimes as I could. Also, move the camera with the same speed and motion of the subject in motion, that’s how you get the blurred background. But the main thing is don’t let off the shutter, I’ve take hundreds of photos and only kept a few in the past, so, you can never take enough photos.
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