{"id":2855,"date":"2016-07-21T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2016-07-21T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:37:56","slug":"well-placed-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"Well placed dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lots of my landscape pictures are taken while I am out walking our dogs.\u00a0 Clearly I am not the sort of dedicated landscape photographer who sets up a camera and waits patiently for hours at a time, until the light is just right.\u00a0 My canine companions would not tolerate that.\u00a0 As it is, they get fed up very quickly when I want to stop and find the right place for a picture.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes indeed I have to hold on to their leads with one hand, the camera in the other to keep the pair of them out of mischief.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I have invented a new category of photography, action landscape?<\/p>\n

Landscape pictures are usually improved with a strong foreground interest.\u00a0 I will often try to get one of the dogs to wait in the correct position in the foreground of my shot.\u00a0 But it is not as easy as it sounds.\u00a0 If I get Lily\u00a0 into the \u201cright\u201d position for me and then call her to look round at me or get her face up from where she is sniffing, she will often just come trotting\u00a0to me.\u00a0\u00a0 Poppy is worse, she is so excitable, bounding all over the place.\u00a0 I have lots of pictures with dogs, looking away, sniffing the grass, running towards\u00a0me or worse.<\/p>\n

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Just sit there!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is an example of a shot which went wrong.\u00a0 I was out at the Forvie National Nature Reserve on a lovely sunny day and I found this view south, over Broad Haven towards Aberdeen in the far distance.\u00a0 Try as I could, I was not able to get the dogs into a good position, and what I had hoped would be a great picture, was a failure<\/p>\n

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The original picture straight from the camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I tried cropping the dogs out of the frame, but I felt the picture was not so good without the full sweep of the sand.<\/p>\n

\"Cropped<\/a>
Cropped too tight?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photoshop came to the rescue, however, and I managed to remove the dogs.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the edited picture I have posted on Facebook today.<\/p>\n

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Broad Haven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is not often that I can get Lily to look at the camera, so my signature landscape shot has a Shi Tzu looking at the view, rather than at the camera. \u00a0\u00a0Here are a couple of examples.<\/p>\n

\"Listening<\/a>
Listening to the view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Whinnyfold\"<\/a>
Whinnyfold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of my landscape pictures are taken while I am out walking our dogs.\u00a0 Clearly I am not the sort of dedicated landscape photographer who sets up a camera and waits patiently for hours at a time, until the light is just right.\u00a0 My canine companions would not tolerate that.\u00a0 As it is, they get…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}