Jayne’s sister came to visit this evening, and brought her dog with her for the walk. It was the first time I had seen it. She did say what breed it is. I can’t remember what she called it, but as far as I can make out its just a fancy name for wolf.
Beautiful dog though, and still only a puppy really.
The cat was a bit nervous but eventually overcame that to make an inspection and ended up sitting on the table outside eyeballing the visitor. I was amazed that he didn’t make too much fuss and extremely impressed that the dog didn’t even bark with the cat only about two metres away.
Obviously I could not resist taking a few photos, but they all turned out quite poorly, as anyone can see.
If I used the flash indoors the hound got a severe case or red-eye but she would not stay still enough for the longer exposures that a flashless shot required, so I have a lot of blurry pictures. I tried a couple outdoors with the halogen light on and they were a bit better but still not great.
I will have to try again outdoors in daylight. Either that or learn something about photography. I did try to edit the red-eye out with PhotoFiltre, which was almost successful.
Use a cheapo 35mm and 1600ASA black-and-white film. It’d be faster than any digital and red-eye wouldn’t even be an issue. It works [scroll down for the photo].
If you want colour then Fuji Press 800 film is, er, the dog’s. Using that stuff you might even be able to shoot the wolf indoors without red-eye.
Perhaps I should have phrased that last sentence differently.
“shoot the wolf indoors without red-eye”? Sounds a bit rude, but brings to mind the old Monty Python RAF sketch (Sorry old man didn’t quite understand your banter)
As far as I know the digital should be able to do a decent job. You can set the ISO to anything from about 80 to well over 1000, and can manually over ride the exposure and aperture. The model I have is supposed to be particularly good in low-light situations.
The only trouble is a mental block I have with cameras and learning what all that means. I would love to get to the point where I understand all the tips you puton your photo site!
We do have a film SLR as well and I might start using that more, but I need to find a place that does better developing and transfer to disc than the Fuji kiosk in our Sainsburys. I got a couple of films done there the other week and the jpgs were terrible, even to my inexpert eye.