Grass Roots Video

July 7th – What ever am I going to take a picture of?  I really thought that I’d be quite a bit further through this before I started not having an idea.  So it was after 11pm and I still didn’t know what I was going to shoot, but I was already in pajammas so I knew I wouldn’t be going out into the world.  So it has to be something in the house.

Well… the dogs are always in the house.  And I never really get tired of taking pictiures of them or our cat, Nelson.  And as I walked into the bedroom, Mitzi was lying there on the new comforter trying to convince the rest of us that it was bed time.

I’ve not yet done a high key portrait of a person, but why not our littlest girl?  So she heard me make a little noise and she opened her eyes and CLICK! that was the picture.  I used one flash on camera pointed straight up at the ceiling to illuminate the room.  My only wish for this pic is that I had angled the flash head slightly so that there would be catchlights in her eyes.  I know I could photoshop them in, but I really don’t like to do that unless I have too.

I know there is little color in the shot and that some of her fur detail is hard to see, but here nose and some of her eye detail goes to true black.  And as long as I have taken advantage of the full dymamic range of the camera, who cares if all of the rest of the histogram is push towards the right (light) side.

Hope you enjoy this shot.  And no, she’s nearly never this calm and relaxed – unless she’s snuggling or trying to sleep.

Please feel free to comment or critique the photo, but please try to be constructive.