Another Day, More Dog Photos

While today was not an 'inspired' day of photography I learned a little from yesterday, and did adjust the shutter speed when the sun came out from behind the clouds....  When I say it wasn't inspired, it doesn't mean that I'm not happy with the photos I took, I just didn't try anything 'outside the box' today.  But hopefully I will this weekend. I have been reading about continuous lighting (as opposed to a flash) for a while, and I ordered up an inexpensive continuous lighting set that arrived today.  Today was a busy day at work, and I had to run a few errands after work, so the lighting set is still in the box.  But the plan is to try it out this weekend, and see how continuous lighting works - and even use some backlighting, possibly.

On to the photos.

Here is my daily 'test photo'.

Yes, I really do take one of these every day.  It's always Fi because Abby is too busy bouncing around in anticipation of the first tennis ball.

Gotta love sibling rivalry!

I slowed the shutter speed down a bit (1/640) and opened the aperture (from my usual f/5.6 to f/5.0) a tad, and the photos were surprisingly sharp.

When the sun came out (a bit, it's mostly overcast) I upped the shutter speed to 1/800 and dropped the aperture back to f/5.6 and didn't have any overexposure issues.

The portraits were a little light, but I think that has more to do with the girls both standing in full sun.  I probably should have closed the aperture down a bit more, but the histogram looked okay, and with a little tweaking the photos were fine.

Day 233/365.