Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

Photo365-20091213 – Go on Punk, Make My Day., originally uploaded by HokiePerogi.
1/250 sec @ f/8.0, ISO 400, 50 mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)

While putting together our Christmas photo cards this year, I realized that I did not have many recent photos of our dogs.  I have taken several photographs of the “girls” during the project, but none of the more recent ones demonstrated everything that I have learned over the last couple of months.  I decided to change this tonight.

I set up a reflective umbrella in the basement where my fiancee and I were watching television.  I sat right at the base of the light stand and tested for the proper flash power and exposure by shooting the back of my hand where I anticipated the dogs to be.  Once I found my proper settings, I called Mela and Leila over to play some fetch.  After a few tosses, I started to take pictures  in between throws.

This is one of my favorite shots of the night.  I cropped the photo only slightly to remove a light stand leg tip on the bottom right corner.  I then applied some sharpening to the whole image and exported to Flickr.