My Grace does that when she gets to play in the snow too :) Such joy!
Scotty March 4th, 2014 @ 10:45 am
ha ha ha! go chloe go!
Amy March 4th, 2014 @ 11:07 am
How do you prevent your photos from being completely blown out in that kind of light? F-stop up? ISO down? The fact that your snow has definition is blowing my puny mind.
A ~ you can control exposure with f-stop, ISO, and/or shutter speed – which you choose doesn’t matter (different choices affect the image in different ways: ISO = grain, f-stop = depth of field, shutter speed = blur)
But to get white-with-detail snow, you need to expose for the daylight – a camera meter reading of the snow or the shadows will give you the wrong exposure. You need to meter the light itself.
An easy trick when you’re learning is to put your hand in front of the camera – really close, so it fills the frame – so the meter reads your palm. Make sure your palm has the same amount and type of light hitting it as your scene, ie, don’t stand in the shadows and do this if you’re going to shoot in the sun. The camera will read your palm as middle gray and measure the light reflected from it.
Then look at the meter reading this gives you, switch your camera to manual, set the shutter speed and f-stop to what you just read from your hand, and see how it goes!
Jenny C March 5th, 2014 @ 2:34 am
Delightful! Looks like she’s at the top of the world (literally, like the North Pole) and knows it. Love her info-gathering and setting up base camp in first photo, her darling angel-divots in center, and her shadow in the 3rd photo. No tail curl there, yet there it is, bold as day… and waaay cute.
Marg March 5th, 2014 @ 9:52 am
Snow angels yeah but I think I see a little devil in there lol.
Kim March 5th, 2014 @ 10:36 am
I think I would not mind all this snow we have if we had those stunning blue skies to accompany it. So tired of grey! Chloe is a cutie!
Robin, I am SO excited about this book. I wouldn’t have discovered it had you not mentioned it here. Thank you!!
mlaiuppa March 5th, 2014 @ 9:02 pm
I so want to take Ramses to visit the snow so he can experience it. He just turned 10 so I really should take him next winter.
So. Cal didn’t get much of a winter this year.
Dawn March 23rd, 2014 @ 1:49 pm
Question. Chloe seems to not be in an enclosed area and not leashed. I take my dogs walking in a lovely wooded area near home not leased, and they stay close. Would Charlie stay close by or would he run? Just curious.
D ~ He stays close; I’m more paranoid of someone seeing him running loose and thinking he’s wild and doing what is often done in that case – that’s why he’s generally on leash when we’re out.
March 4th, 2014 @ 10:15 am
My Grace does that when she gets to play in the snow too :) Such joy!
March 4th, 2014 @ 10:45 am
ha ha ha! go chloe go!
March 4th, 2014 @ 11:07 am
How do you prevent your photos from being completely blown out in that kind of light? F-stop up? ISO down? The fact that your snow has definition is blowing my puny mind.
March 4th, 2014 @ 11:54 am
Love that curly-tailed dog!
March 4th, 2014 @ 12:07 pm
Oh, the spirit inside that girl!
March 4th, 2014 @ 2:15 pm
These are my most favorite photos you’ve ever posted. I would so love to live in a setting like that.
March 4th, 2014 @ 2:20 pm
The utter joy that dogs express is a lesson I try to absorb whenever I see it. It just makes me beam.
March 4th, 2014 @ 2:24 pm
so cute! I have las vegas dogs, but when I take them to the mountains they know what to do with snow!
March 4th, 2014 @ 2:26 pm
ps just read an INCREDIBLE book, about a young woman who hiked the Pacific Crest Trest by herself, thought about you.
“WILD” Cheryl Strayed
March 4th, 2014 @ 2:41 pm
Simple pleasures are truly the best.
Wonderful pics :-)
March 4th, 2014 @ 5:46 pm
Doggie angels must have a completely different shape from what we think ours might look like…LOL.
March 4th, 2014 @ 7:29 pm
If we all rolled around in the snow maybe we could find a way to get along with each other.
March 4th, 2014 @ 8:34 pm
A ~ you can control exposure with f-stop, ISO, and/or shutter speed – which you choose doesn’t matter (different choices affect the image in different ways: ISO = grain, f-stop = depth of field, shutter speed = blur)
But to get white-with-detail snow, you need to expose for the daylight – a camera meter reading of the snow or the shadows will give you the wrong exposure. You need to meter the light itself.
An easy trick when you’re learning is to put your hand in front of the camera – really close, so it fills the frame – so the meter reads your palm. Make sure your palm has the same amount and type of light hitting it as your scene, ie, don’t stand in the shadows and do this if you’re going to shoot in the sun. The camera will read your palm as middle gray and measure the light reflected from it.
Then look at the meter reading this gives you, switch your camera to manual, set the shutter speed and f-stop to what you just read from your hand, and see how it goes!
March 5th, 2014 @ 2:34 am
Delightful! Looks like she’s at the top of the world (literally, like the North Pole) and knows it. Love her info-gathering and setting up base camp in first photo, her darling angel-divots in center, and her shadow in the 3rd photo. No tail curl there, yet there it is, bold as day… and waaay cute.
March 5th, 2014 @ 9:52 am
Snow angels yeah but I think I see a little devil in there lol.
March 5th, 2014 @ 10:36 am
I think I would not mind all this snow we have if we had those stunning blue skies to accompany it. So tired of grey! Chloe is a cutie!
March 5th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
Robin, I am SO excited about this book. I wouldn’t have discovered it had you not mentioned it here. Thank you!!
March 5th, 2014 @ 9:02 pm
I so want to take Ramses to visit the snow so he can experience it. He just turned 10 so I really should take him next winter.
So. Cal didn’t get much of a winter this year.
March 23rd, 2014 @ 1:49 pm
Question. Chloe seems to not be in an enclosed area and not leashed. I take my dogs walking in a lovely wooded area near home not leased, and they stay close. Would Charlie stay close by or would he run? Just curious.
March 23rd, 2014 @ 2:31 pm
D ~ He stays close; I’m more paranoid of someone seeing him running loose and thinking he’s wild and doing what is often done in that case – that’s why he’s generally on leash when we’re out.