Ice Fishing! (PIC HEAVY!!)

[takemebacktotulsa]

What a great tradition. If you want to take on an honorary family member or two next year, we'd love to be considered ;-)

It looks like everyone in your family, Newfs included, loves to have a good time
Wonderful pictures!

 

[BlackLightning]

Wow, these are great photos - what a fun family adventure! Love the picture of Boum's tongue all curled and ready for a timbit! And then asking and then DEMANDING one! Ha. And the one with your Dad - so sweet, did he know Ayasha had her nose in his cup or was that supposed to be for her? Gotta love it when the whole family loves the dogs...

Yes, my Dad thought Ayasha would like some hot chocolate of her own. It's her big googly eyes. She gets whatever she wants from Grandpa, including a fair share of moose sausage cooked in beer!

 

[laney]

Wow how amazing xxx

 

[Codes]

What a heavenly way to spend the day!! Love the great big smiles on everyone's faces.

 

[newflizzie]

Wow, my southern Newfs are utterly jealous! Great pics!

 

[anya]

What fun you all had. You have a very special family...humans and newfs.

 

[AubreyMo]

Great picture! The one with his tongue out makes him look like a giant hummingbird...love them all, hard to pick a favorite!

 

[NewfieMama]

Love these pics! (I also love that there is such a thing as Family Day Weekend...).

 

[Shel]

Awesome photos! Tell me how you manage the correct exposure when photographing Newfs in the snow on a sunny day. I have given up.

 

[BlackLightning]

Awesome photos! Tell me how you manage the correct exposure when photographing Newfs in the snow on a sunny day. I have given up.

You need to setup your camera so that it over-exposes. I am not sure what camera you have Shel, but I believe it's a DSLR. You can set your f-stop exposure. Set it to over-expose by a bit, maybe up to 1 f-stop. This will help because your camera is trying to expose for the scene and it sees all that white and then wants to expose for the white, leaving an under-exposed Newf! It won't be perfect, but it will help. You might end up with blown out highlights though.

The most important factor is lighting. I try and shoot when the sun is behind me, helping to illuminate the dog's features. That helps balance out the really black dog against the really white snow.

And after all that, I still play with them in photoshop!

 

[kmann]

That first picture had me dying! Boum is ready to get the show on the road!

 

[Shel]

You need to setup your camera so that it over-exposes. I am not sure what camera you have Shel, but I believe it's a DSLR. You can set your f-stop exposure. Set it to over-expose by a bit, maybe up to 1 f-stop. This will help because your camera is trying to expose for the scene and it sees all that white and then wants to expose for the white, leaving an under-exposed Newf! It won't be perfect, but it will help. You might end up with blown out highlights though.

The most important factor is lighting. I try and shoot when the sun is behind me, helping to illuminate the dog's features. That helps balance out the really black dog against the really white snow.

And after all that, I still play with them in photoshop!

I have a Sony Alpha a65. In hindsight, I think my challenge goes beyond black dogs and bright snowy background. I am usually taking photos of all four dogs randomly when they play... so I'm going from black Newf to tri-coloured Saint, to mottled Wolfhound, to white and red Corgi. I did try over-exposing at one time, the Newf looked better, but then the white on the Saint and Corgi are completely blown out and I'm hard pressed to recover the highlights in PS or LR. I'm not good or fast enough to make adjustments between taking photos of different dogs, and I often have more than one dog in a photo at a time. Norm is the hardest to photograph... his mask and Neanderthal brow make capturing his eyes almost impossible.

Thank you for the tips... I will try over-exposing and focus on taking photos of just Sue and Winnie and see how it goes. Now I just need to figure out how to get photos of Norm.

Can I ask what type of metering mode you use? I have a choice between "multi-segmented", "center weighted" or "spot". I've tried all three, and seem to always be using the wrong one at any given time. Since my subjects are often moving, I usually have it set to "center weighted", but wonder if "spot" might not be a better choice.

Thanks again for your help... and sorry to others not interested in the technical side of photography... I guess I should be asking these type of questions in the Camera Talk forum.

Shel

 

[TerriW]

All I can see is love...... what lucky, lucky dogs.

A timbit is a dunkin munchkin, btw.

 

[Joan Fisher]

Timbits are what you get when you cut out the hole n the doughnut! Absolutely fabulous photos, Kaila!

 

[Annetteb]

Great pictures!!!! Thanks for sharing...