Cats & Dogs

Cats and Dogs

Her Favorite Photo

Henry: French Bulldog   click on image for gallery

This is Henry a French Bulldog, aka a “Frenchie”. He is only a year old. He can be a terror. Nobody and nothing will stand in between him and treats.

Using Flash: Sony Style

Sony did some promo videos that poke fun at dSLR photographers. Sony is a distant third after Canon and Nikon in the dSLR market, but Sony is second only to Olympus in the mirrorless cameras and is also battling Canon for the number one spot in the point and shoot cameras. In North America, the mirrorless cameras are doing so-so but they are doing extremely well in Asia and fairly well in Europe in spite of the economic crisis.

Sony's Guide on Using Flash

The Secrets of Huge and Sharp Prints

I just printed this photo 20" by 30" or 50 centimeters by 76 centimeters.

Pouch, the cat Wile E under his favorite tripod/platformpouch-20080810-0104.jpg syv ritch ©2008 foto-biz.com: http://http://www.foto-biz.com/usageterms

You can't see it as a print, you can only view from the web. But... It looks great on the wall. Viewed even close, there's no pixilation, no visible noise with a naked eye even at 5 inch from the print. All the hairs and whiskers are sharp.

The Secrets of Straight On Flash

One of the most popular photography website is the http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/ from David Hobby. I'm not in the same league and I don't even pretend. But I use flashes regularly. I specialize in simple setups. The problem with most of the photos sites where they give you the lighting diagram, they tell you how they did it but not why they chose this or that solution.

Jasper is not a happy camper. Jasper clearly doesn't want to be here. If he could escape and go back home he would. Treats and weird/special noises didn't help to get his interest.

Jasper clearly doesn't want to be here. If he could escape to go back home he would. Treats and weird, special noises didn't help to get his interest.charlie-20120126-2457.jpg ” ©2012 Syv Ritch -- foto-biz.com: http://www.foto-biz.com/usageterms

Jasper is not a happy camper   click on image for gallery

First look at eyes, "evil" glowing eyes, good definition and not hard shadows. Here's the technical data:

In Memory

Coyote Grossman, aka totos, the dodoite died last week on 25-Aug-2011 at 2:30pm, just short of 15 years old. This is one of my favorite photos of him taken almost 2 years ago.

Hard working dog waiting for his biscuit

Is It A Pit Bull Puppy?

This girl must be around 15 or 16 years old (I've never been good at guessing people's age). She came by with a 2 week old pit bull puppy (I think that it's a pit bull.) The guy she was with, looked like her pimp to me, just bought her the puppy that morning. I took a couple of photos of her and the puppy. The guy made sure that he staid behind me. I had only 30 seconds to make the photo. My deal is: 1. I make the photo 2. The following week, I gave at least one 5” by 7” print. Occasionally, I give away a couple of prints. I never gave her the print, I never saw that girl again. I like this photo because I can see the sadness of that girl's future life. * I'm implying that she was either starting to be a “hooker” or soon to be one. How quick we are to make judgement on people that we have no clue? Still, that's what I'm imagining. * I don't know her, I don't even know her name. * I don't even know the name of the puppy, she hadn't yet decided. * Did she keep the puppy?

Is it a Pit Bull Puppy? click on image for gallery

This girl must be around 15 or 16 years old (I've never been good at guessing people's age). She came by with a 2 week old pit bull puppy (I think that it's a pit bull.) The guy she was with, looked like her pimp to me, just bought her the puppy that morning.

Bogotai: The Beast

I tried to do make a photo of Bogotai with Jamine but it turned out to be a portrait of Jamine with Bogotai.

Bogotai is a huge beast. Half Great Dane, half pit bull, it's a Pit Bull the size of a Great Dane. He's huge. Many people are scared of him because he's so big. 155+ pounds that's around 70 kilos! He's bigger and heavier than Jasmine. He's one of my favorite dog, he has such a good character and easy going, but: 1. He doesn't like Shepperd dogs. 2. It would be easier if he was better trained. When he wants to go to sniff the tree, he goes and sniff the tree. I follow, no choice. 3. Bogotai is afraid of me when I make photos. He's worried because of my “huge eye” aka the lens. If I have such a big eye, I must be terrible. It's very hard to get him to look at the camera. In the doggy world, looking straight into the eyes means attack. 4. Bogotai always come to see me because I always give him small treats made of smoked buffalo skin. Did you know that dogs have almost no taste buds unlike humans, but they have a great nose and a fantastic memory for smells.

Bogotai is a huge beast. Half Great Dane, half Pit Bull click on image for gallery

Shakespeare, a Maltese Puppy

Shakespeare, yes the English legend, is a 2 month old Maltese. The breeder gave him away because he couldn't sell the puppy because of his right eye. I've tried to blend his eye with all the

Shakespeare, a 2 month old Maltese dog click on image for gallery

Sharpening Photos in Lightroom

We all want sharp photos. Lightroom has had sharpening since the “before” the beginning. The problem with the sharpening in Lightroom is that some of it, is automatic and some of it, is manual.

The problem with sharpening is what to sharpen and how much? The photo? No, never, actually almost never. iStockPhoto, Alamy and the other stock agencies will reject your photos if you sharpen them too much. I have found 812 entries on the iStockPhoto forums about people asking/complaining about their photos being rejected because of sharpening.

  1. By default when exporting a photo, Lightroom applies “standard sharpening”
  2. In the Develop module, there's the sharpening panel
  3. The “trick” is to sharpen only the edges, the outline of the “characters of the photo”

Lightroom: Photo Without Any Sharpening

Lightroom: Photo Without Any Sharpening

Careful Of What You Wish For?

I have mention John A. before in Friends and Discounts. He's more of an acquaintance than a friend. We meet regularly, he lives next block. He walks his 2 schnauzers, I walk my beast:

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