The Dog Days of Summer II

Camera: Sony DSC-H5
Exposure: .067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 13.5 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV

This is my second image of my dog Nikita and the Dog Days of Summer Theme. She's really fantastic and almost knows when she is supposed to be posing for photographs compared to other random commands I try to instill upon her (sit, stay, quiet, down, etc., etc.). This effect is called the Orton Effect and is essentially overlaying a light sharp image with a dark blurred image upon a normal image. It's kinda cool I think and related to some HDR photography. Let me know what you think!

Edit: Like most of my pictures from Flickr now, it looks better if you click on it and open up flickr. That way the resizing of the very large image to half it's size doesn't look quite as bad.

The Dog Days of Summer

Camera: Sony DSC-H5
Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 55.1 mm
ISO Speed: 125
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV

I've been trying to mess around with Photoshop a bit more to get a slightly more professional grade look to some of my photos and my favorite subject (also my most fussy) is my dog Nikita. She's a beautiful Samoyed/Retriever mix. All white. Apparently, according to Photoshop, there is a correct and incorrect way of transferring your pictures to black and white. This was my attempt at the correct way and it does turn out pretty well I believe. Tomorrow I'll have another shot that I used a different technique on! Keep an eye out.