Henry's Fan (Round Two)

(peek)

(tippy-toe tippy-toe tippy-toe)

"Ahhhhhhh"

Henry (off camera): "Who is that laying in front of MY fan?!"
Zachary: "Not me!!!"  (run away, run away, run away!)

"Ahhhhhhh!"

Dog Blog Post #829

Photography Assignment

As we try our hand at…

Our Daily Challenge - Oct 3, 2012 - "Minimalism"

… we get just a...

Daily Dog Challenge 338. "A Glimpse"

… of Zachary and a...

Scavenge Challenge October 2012 - "2. Sports fan, milady's fan, industrial fan...the subject is fans of any sort."

(again)

(whirr whirr whirr)

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Rustic Retrievers

Dog Blog Post #828

Photography Assignment

Looks like the…

Our Daily Challenge - Oct 2, 2012 - "Beginning"…

… of a…

Daily Dog Challenge "337. Rustic"

… cookout.

Duke* had better watch out!

Scavenge Challenge September 2012 - "25. Last month, we delicately applied post-processing to improve our photos. This month, we're going to take that a step further and render an image into an artistic version using a heavier hand. Again, photos should be presented as a diptych, side by side for comparison. The challenge you face here is to create something which is visually appealing to a general audience, NOT a garish, over-the-top alteration. Two options to consider: stylizing (rendering as a painting or sketch) or adding a texture to your original image."

(For diptych, see below)

Ok… fuzzy wording ("heavier hand") has me scratching my head. To much? Not enough?

We'll try THIS picture and see if it flies.

Obviously, the top shot (RAW) needed some serious work, although low exposure has benefits if you know ahead of time you want to add in texture/grain. In addition to fiddling with exposure, I pulled on curves and levels, applied vignette, sharpness (more sharpness, yet more sharpness), plus some lightening (of the side of the pan) and polarizing (of the backdrop to kill some of the sheen that developed when I upped the exposure).

If I had to do it over again, I would have tried a small reflector on the pan or just gone with a higher exposure and hoped I could get enough "grain" using sliders, as the black was pretty much a black hole as taken.

All was done in Aperture 3.

* Duke = the stage name of the Golden Retriever in the Bush's Beans commercials, named after the real Golden Retriever owned by the Bean Bush's family.

The Original

Also Ran

Less Artsy

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Decisions Decisions

"Oh, Boy! A Lacrosse Ball and a Cookie - thanks Mom!"

Wait a minute Zachary.

Today's assignments are about choice and decisions, so you must choose:

Lacrosse Ball or Cookie?

Oh, come on Zachary. It's not that hard. Pick one!

(1 hour later)

Umm... right...

Henry - your turn.

Now, your choice is between staying there, all nice and comfy, in front of your fan

-or-

Moving forward 6 inches and getting a cookie.

One...

Two...

Three...

Choose!

Henry?

"Momma! Please bring me the cookie!"

Oh, Henry. It's not that bad...

... is it?

Dog Blog Post #827

Assignment: JUST the last Picture

This is Henry's…

Scavenge Challenge October 2012 - "2. Sports fan, milady's fan, industrial fan...the subject is fans of any sort."

… fan.

Henry's NEW Fan.

The old fan ran nearly continuously for the past two years, as Henry melts at temperatures above 50F, until a few weeks ago when it developed a terminal squeal.

After going 2 extremely miserable days without a fan (in our air-conditioned to 78F house) Henry was overjoyed when we produced this NEW fan and turned it on for his approval.

He plopped right down in front of it, and promptly fell asleep.

It's good to be Henry.

(Henry's fan resides behind an ex-pen, so Henry and his fan remain safely parted.)

(You think I'm kidding about this - at the start of the summer I briefly turned the old fan off so I could vacuum away the dust and dog hair that accumulated on the cover. Henry sat beside me the entire time, even when the vacuum was running, and watched with very sad eyes. He was visibly relieved when maintenance concluded and the fan commenced spinning.)

Assignments: All But The Last Picture

Sorry Zachary - you can't have it all.

You have to make a…

Daily Dog Challenge "336. Decisions, Decisions..."

Scavenge Challenge October 2012 - "4. Use a photo to demonstrate that a choice must be made."

… between the Lacrosse Ball and the Cookie.

Or you can choose neither and just...

Our Daily Challenge - Oct 1, 2012 - "Relax"

... in front of the fan.

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