Ally says, look at me!
Look at me!
LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!
I am trying. Now if you would only slow down, stop jumping up my leg and stay still so that you aren’t out of focus!
According to her human, she’s more saying “Feed me”, rather than “Look at me”. Little dogs are cute whatever they do huh?
Working through these series of beach photos has got me thinking about pet photography.
- Let’s take a drive to Changi Beach
- Mikki only plays with humans
- The one about the cute puppy
It isn’t easy of course. Even now, my own dog tends to look away disinterestedly when she feels I’m absorbed with my phone and not paying attention to her. And as long as I have my camera phone trained on her, she continues to look back over her shoulder.
So of course, I celebrated when I finally got a good capture of her looking straight into the camera and put her giant mug on this blog as the background straight-away that day.
And then, it did get progressively easier. It takes time to bond with the dog, time to observe her behaviours, when she is more relaxed and amenable to being photographed versus when she loses her patience at being photographed. And as the time passed, I grew better at these and the photographs show the results, I think.
Being at the beach, trying to take pictures of multiple dogs at once, while trying to mind your own dog and also trying to take shots of each individual dog was challenging. You don’t have the leisure to consider the frame, the light, because these happy beasts are moving around all the time in the cutest manner!
I was lucky that of the new dogs we were meeting, at least Ally was not bashful. She approached the human, albeit in a distracted, all over the place sort of way. It was pretty entertaining and I wished I had better equipment there to capture her mischievious little mug with more clarity.
But then I wonder, will a bigger camera make a dog shy away more compared to the less obtrusive, everyday object like the phone? Particularly on a first meeting?
Guess I will only know with experience.
Roxy the Traveling Dog
I have a big camera and a phone camera. I swear these guys know about both. Sometimes they look right at me, other times no.
weliveinaflat
Oh man, I guess the next best thing must be to wrap the camera in plastic and hang bacon all over it so they will look over :P
NW Frame of Mind
Great questions to ask! Love the puppy. ;)
weliveinaflat
It was an adorable puppy! But not mine :P Hahahahaha!
lensandpensbysally
What an outing–fun for all.
weliveinaflat
It was :) Have a great day Sally!
ILoveDogs
Yep, quite a cute puppy! My problem isn’t the camera. It is that every time I pull out the camera or phone, my dogs stop doing whatever it is I was trying to take a photo of in the first place. Do you have that problem?
weliveinaflat
Yes, I do have that problem. I try to not make it obvious that my attention has switch to them and stealthily take shots like the pawparazzi … and then I crop it on my laptop/phone. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, depends on how engrossed/distracted she is at the time. :)
weggieboy
Donna definitely makes doggy friends easily! That’s a big part of being a dog – social life – so you get kudos for making this possible.
weliveinaflat
Thank you :)
rubytheblacklabrador
So glad you’re getting out and about with Donna and having fun. Lovely to see her feeling so confident:)
weliveinaflat
I think she is quite to rejoice just as she is quick to frown and cower when afraid. I wonder if all dogs are this way.
2browndawgs
Those are great shots. My dogs always give me the “no not the camera” look whenever I get mine out.
weliveinaflat
Donna does that too! But we adopted her when she was an adult dog already. I wonder if the dog will be less adverse to it if one starts from young? But then you guys had the brown dogs from young didn’t you? So I guess starting from young still doesn’t work huh?
2browndawgs
No not in our case at least.
weliveinaflat
That’s too bad. Have a great day today!
The Sundog Drift
You photo’s are good but dog shots with a slow camera are almost impossible. I recommend a camera with at least 3fps “frames per second” with a continuous shooting mode. Taking “candid” photo’s of dogs in their natural environment is super challenging. They are constantly moving. Just keep practicing. Also get down on their level, don’t shot from above.
weliveinaflat
All round good advice, thank you Jo. I will not be so lazy as to not lug that camera-camera out the next time. :D
Sonel
She is totally adorable and looks like Donna is having lots of fun. Great shots Mrs. P. :D *hugs*
weliveinaflat
Oh that is probably Donna’s happiest day I think. :D
Ariane
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE PICTURES OF ALLY AND CHLOE and all its stories! I know how you feel about taking pictures of the little rascal. She’s constantly MOVING and JUMPING up your leg. That’s because she’s so incredibly (sometimes frustratingly) affectionate. It drives me crazy!
weliveinaflat
Was Chloe like that once? I hear puppies eventually become more stable as they mature. Maybe you’ll start to miss it when she grows up :P Haha!