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Some shots I took with my Digilux 3 in Arendal, Norway, when it started getting cold this autumn (before the 92 cm of snow fell yesterday...). My dog is a 7 month old English Setter nerdishly called "Linux" and the girl is my pregnant beautiful wife :)

 

I wonder if I could get some constructive criticism on these as I personally fumble when I see something I would like to photograph and feel I just end up very generic.

 

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Thanks a lot for looking, guys. And for your kind words. Interestingly you most liked the two pictures I was least sure of. I guess there´s a lesson there somewhere :)

 

I actually thought the first picture had best framing and was interesting with light from their backs. But I may not have caught it very good after all. The second one of my dog I can see in hindsight that at least should have been framed better, but it doesn´t have a very interesting background either. I was also unsure about the desaturation I did in Aperture on the two last ones.

 

And just for your information you can actually just see my dog up the path on picture four as well. Hope it doesn´t ruin it for you, leica dream :)

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Thomas -

 

Lovely series. I think #1 would be improved by cropping it to a vertical, drawing closer attention to the woman's and dog's super lighting, and their communication. with the second I'd experiment with sharpening.

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Thomas,

 

Lovely photographs. Beautiful part of the world.

 

I don't know much about the Digilux 3, I have the 1, & the 2. Personally, I would work on getting a perfect / spot-on focus somewhere on the dog's body. Perhaps the eye. Also, it is my personal preference to have the majority of the scenery in front of the running animal. This advice will give ME something to work on.

 

Al

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Thomas - a very nice series - I agree with Stuart about #1, and IMHO #4 (the path) is extremely good (now you mention it, I do see Linux), closely followed by #3. The last two have in my view lovely subtle colouring of great scenery but maybe need a bit more playing around with to get the best out of them.

Kit lens I presume?

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