It occurred to me that I enjoy taking pictures of dogs.
I can only really analyze that in retrospect, so now that
I think about it, I imagine that it must be that dogs, to
me, are a very honest and non-posing living subject for
photography. They are usually a lot more facially
expressive than other animals. Unlike where people
pose for the viewers of the photos, the dog, if it poses,
or plays, plays or poses to you, the photographer.
It's an ignorance of process that makes a dog an honest
subject. I have some photos of some of my best friends'
dogs. I tried to make sure, where possible, to mute
the background, or at least the areas furthest away
from the most important action of the dogs.
Here, I took the following original photo of two dogs, Bean and Raisin, as Bean attacked my foot because I was egging her on.
I took that image, and felt that I should add a blurring action to make all of the background(that other than my foot and Bean). I used the polygonal lasso to select my leg and foot first. Then I inversed my selection and added a motion blur to everything but that. Then I selected my leg and bean, the dog in front. I inversed that selection, and added a motion blur that was perpendicular to the rest of the motion blur. In doing this, I accented the foreground, and left the background to do nothing but accent the motion between the dog and my foot.
4 comments:
I'll just comment on the one for all of them.
You seem to have a good grasp on the tools for photoshop. Which is awesome. THe second photo has the good motion background but maybe adding the blur to the animal a little just to see what it would look like. The third photo has good composition.
The puppy on the staircase photo makes me feel a specific way. I'm not sure but it reminds me of a rainy saturday morning, lounging around the house. The photo with the crab is really special too. Great work, I agree with Perez on the halo editing. But other than that. I love them!
the blurring action is nice, i wish thee was an easier way than that damn lasso tool. your obsession with dogs is clear and nice that you surround yourself with them. dig the non-blurred foot with the background and glad no animals were hurt in this project.
This was a pretty creative idea for a picture. I applaud the attempt to depict first person action. This picture may have too many things going on at the same time. Adjusting the composition, focus and contrast may make this picture stronger.
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