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a few from Carlos

R. Francois
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p.1 #1 · a few from Carlos

Went to the woods today with Carlos. A gray and dull day, so: SB800 to the rescue

I like to share a few with you. All shot with my D700, 70-300VR and an SB800 to get some contrast.

195mm F5.6 1/160 iso400

250mm F5.6 1/160 iso400

For the smile...
70mm F5.6 1/100 iso200

converted with LR3

Best,

Raymond

Nov 01, 2009 at 09:01 PM

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p.1 #2 · a few from Carlos

Digging 2 the most. Looks least flash like

Nov 01, 2009 at 09:08 PM

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p.1 #3 · a few from Carlos

nicely done, Ray. That Carlos is looking mighty stout and healthy. What kind of beer does he drink?

Joe

Nov 01, 2009 at 09:15 PM

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p.1 #4 · a few from Carlos

In addition to Joes above question, who cleans his teeth? Great images, by the way.

Nov 01, 2009 at 09:19 PM

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p.1 #5 · a few from Carlos

...these exposures are "nailed"....nice shots.

Nov 01, 2009 at 09:35 PM

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p.1 #6 · a few from Carlos

Beautiful stuff. GREAT balance with the flash... give us the details! Did you scale it back manually? Bounce it?

Nov 01, 2009 at 10:34 PM

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p.1 #7 · a few from Carlos

I agree with Gregory, the second one has the most "natural" look...

Guy

Nov 01, 2009 at 10:47 PM

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p.1 #8 · a few from Carlos

Great shots!!! No.2 is my Favourite, thats what my bulldog do when he finished playing hehehe....regaining energy i believe

Nov 01, 2009 at 10:57 PM

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p.1 #9 · a few from Carlos

Wonderful shots Raymond, 1 and 2 are my favorites. Good to see he's recovered well from his surgeries

Nov 02, 2009 at 12:03 AM

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p.1 #10 · a few from Carlos

I like 1 and 2. Nice doggy.

Nov 02, 2009 at 02:02 AM

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p.1 #11 · a few from Carlos

dj dunzie wrote:
Beautiful stuff. GREAT balance with the flash... give us the details! Did you scale it back manually? Bounce it?
+1!

Nov 02, 2009 at 02:31 AM

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p.1 #12 · a few from Carlos

Thank you all. About the flash, it's pretty straight forward. There wasn't much to bounce so i've used the sb800 bare on the camera. TTL BL mode since it's outside and there is still a good amount of natural light. I've dialed both flash and exposure down with 1/3. Camera was in Manual.

That's it. Looking at these pictures made me realize i should use more flash outside. Despite the fact that the D700 has great iso capabilities. One tends to get sloppy and rely completely on the iso capabilities, while a bit of flash yields a better image. Sure that's not always possible, but in this case it was.

once again; thanks for the comments so far!

Nov 02, 2009 at 06:47 AM

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p.1 #13 · a few from Carlos

Carlos is my idol, and those pics give him justice

Love#2 specially, thanks for keeping us in the loop, John

Nov 02, 2009 at 01:20 PM

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p.1 #14 · a few from Carlos

Wonderful Raymond.
I like number 2 as well.
Looks more natural than 3.

Does that mean no more NX2?

Nov 02, 2009 at 04:59 PM

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p.1 #15 · a few from Carlos

Beautiful shots. Very nice contrast from the flash. I for one like the flash look. These are awesome. Great work.

Nov 02, 2009 at 06:16 PM

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p.1 #16 · a few from Carlos

freespirit wrote:
Wonderful Raymond.
I like number 2 as well.
Looks more natural than 3.

Does that mean no more NX2?

Correct... it's LR nowadays...

Nov 02, 2009 at 07:39 PM

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p.1 #17 · a few from Carlos

Raymond,

Beautiful pictures, you are lucky to have such an accommodating subject.

I have a LightRoom question for you, are you converting your files to dng or are you keeping the raw files?

Thanks
Monty

Nov 02, 2009 at 11:06 PM

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p.1 #18 · a few from Carlos

Nice shots Ray looks like Carlos is doing great! My Gizmo has torn ligament in his hind leg and has really been struggling, he might be going in for surgery too

Nov 03, 2009 at 01:03 AM

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p.1 #19 · a few from Carlos

montym wrote:
Raymond,

Beautiful pictures, you are lucky to have such an accommodating subject.

I have a LightRoom question for you, are you converting your files to dng or are you keeping the raw files?

Thanks
Monty

I keep the raw files. It's just as fast so i don't feel the need to convert to dng at this moment. Of course i have the xmp sidecar files, but those are small. Storing the complete rawfile in a dng gives large files so that's not a suitable option either and converting to only dng is a bit tricky too. When nikon announces NX3 i want to try that straight away too.

so for now i keep the raw files. And if they become obsolete or real proprietary, we will know soon enough and i can always convert them at that time.

Nov 03, 2009 at 06:24 AM

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p.1 #20 · a few from Carlos

Dan Bellyk wrote:
Nice shots Ray looks like Carlos is doing great! My Gizmo has torn ligament in his hind leg and has really been struggling, he might be going in for surgery too

Ooh that is so sad. How old is Gizmo?

i'll send you a pm..

Nov 03, 2009 at 06:26 AM

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p.1 #21 · a few from Carlos

...Dan....my friend's dog had a rear leg torn ligament (knee)....they opted for the more expensive surgery (a "strut" or metal "brace" was fixed into the bone) rather than the "over the knee nylon strap" type surgery....and the pooch is doing excellent....walks and moves like it never happened. We watched Carlos' progress when going through this.

Nov 03, 2009 at 12:03 PM

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p.1 #22 · a few from Carlos

Raymond, what kind of cheese and chocolate diet is Carlos on,,

always enjoy his photos,,

Derry

Nov 03, 2009 at 01:22 PM

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p.1 #23 · a few from Carlos

Dan,
I have a friend who's dog had torn cruciate ligaments in the knee. Instead of surgery he opted for stem cells. They harvested cells from his hip grew them out and injected them into the knee. two weeks later the dog was good as new. maybe better. His dog is an older performance dog and was back doing agility in about 3 weeks. The ligaments were completely severed. Check with Colorado State University Veterinary - I'll bet they can point you to someone in your area that could do it.

Nov 04, 2009 at 06:19 PM


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