Oh How They Grow Up Fast!

Nikon D90 with 17 - 50mm f2.8 wide angle lens (shot at 1/800 sec @ f2.8, ISO 100)

Post Processing: This was shot on a very bright sunny day, so I had to correct the exposure through Camera RAW as well as a bit of contrast correction and vibrancy added.

It's hard to believe that our German Short Haired Pointer (Toby, pictured above) has been in our family for 1 year now. We got him when he was only 10 weeks old, and my wife got a taste of what it was to be a mother as she fed him, toilet trained him and comforted him when he felt scared or distressed (not that I didn't help) but she had a much closer bond at the time than I did. The difficulty in photographing both our dogs (Toby is our second, Dexter is our first), is that they are both black dogs, and often I take photo's on bright sunny days. This makes taking any decent photos almost impossible as the contrast between the bright sky and dark black dogs just don't make for an easy task. I often try to take the photo's in the shade or on overcast days (even still, it's hard to make out any distinguishing features).

The photo above was on one such outing to the park, where I took many action shots with both dogs running frantically chasing a ball, us or each other. In this case Toby is not yelling at an ant, but instead getting ready to catch a ball my wife has thrown to him. But it certainly does add a bit a of drama to the image.

The photo below was taken 1 year ago, just to show how he has grown in just 12 months!

Nikon D90 with 50mm f1.4 prime lens (shot at 1/60 sec @ f2.2, ISO 400)