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the instructor we worked with during training said Augie had the best play bow she'd ever seen. even so, she's still got "the eye". especially when I have Ducky as my P.A.

this shot is more in the direction I wanted to go last time, with more of a dark background and some selective light; and I took a bit more time with this week, having just gotten a new toy critical piece of photographic equipment: a 10 meter ETTL extension cord, for those times when I just want to have more control over the flash at a distance.

Augie was pretty good about it, too, as my dark fleece blanket backdrop is fairly narrow, and so she's posed on one of our chairs. we used Ducky to try some action/catch shots, but I couldn't move back far enough with my 35mm lens, and then she kept going into her bow between tosses, so I focused more on that.

technicals:

I put a snoot on the (Canon 430EX) flash and mounted it overhead angled towards Augie's head, and used the ETTL flash metering, which worked well to keep the background dark and not blow a huge flood of light over everything. I like the lines I got out of this lighting and pose, and the catchlights from the windows that showed up despite the flash and the high shutter speed (1/640).

Just another scene of fetch.

once again, we started off in a different direction for this week's shot, but ended up discovering static and a hair raising session for Augie. (no girl likes to deal with frizzies and static.) she was a good sport about it, though, and in the end very little in the way of shocks came about.

I shot this again with the flash, at 1/200 sec. in ETTL mode, ƒ/4.0 for good sharpness over her face. one thing about it though is some detail of the standing hair was lost due to the contrast between the fine hairs and the light background. still, I think this makes the point.

and you have to admit, with this stark white background, it looks kind of like some modeling shot. (or, you don't have to agree, but you may still kindly humor me because you're a good person.)