Vinnie

[Tom Barry]

Our son's new pup, Vinnie, pushing three months. He was sitting in my wife's lap yesterday. Before you know it, he will be too big to sit in anyone's lap:
Thanks.jpg8 by tombarry975, on Flickr

[Dave Humphries]

Nice eyes (and collar colour combo) Tom,

What is it?
(apart from 'cute' of course)

... and will it chew and/or dig - like our 2018 pups do

Dave

[Tom Barry]

Vinnie's half Labrador retriever and half Australian shepherd. He chews everything and is particularly fond of shoestrings and camera straps. He will be large.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[rpcrowe]

Lovely pup... I guess you know, they never consider themselves "too big" to sit in your lap. My 55 pound Goldendoodle still jumps up onto my lap until I tell her to get off

[LePetomane]

My 80 pound Bouvier still thinks she's a lap dog.

[Tom Barry]

Yeah, they do love laps. And other things: I had a 120-pound Weimariner/Labrador cross who would try to dig her way into my skin whenever there was thunder. Oddly, she was the best bird dog I ever had, and shotguns going off bothered her not at all.

[lovelife65]

Cute pup. Never a dog too large for a lap ;-)

[DanK]

Great capture of a very attractive dog. My one suggestion: watch out for the background. I do a lot of candids of kids (I don't post any here because I don't want parents to be concerned about privacy issues), and one of the hardest things in that sort of photography is that kids often have the most interesting expressions when they are in front of awfully distracting backgrounds. (Fortunately, parents and grandparents usually seem to care much less than I do.) In this case, the brightly colored blanket and the brightly illuminated railing that goes right into the dog's snout are both distracting. A little PP would help, for example, darkening the top left corner and the top of the railing and desaturating the rug. Here's a very rough edit to show what I mean. It's crude, but it will illustrate what I was thinking of. I selected the blanket and both darkened and desaturated it. I darkened the two areas I mentioned. Then I slightly brightened the pup a little, especially the back of the dog's head and neck, which were in partial shadow, to make them stand out more from the now darker background.

[Tom Barry]

Thanks, Dan, for the suggestion. Anyhow, I, too, have found that most non-photographer parents, grandparents, etc., are perfectly happy if the images of the kids or pets are recognizable. When I apologize for a busy background, the general reaction is, "Huh?"

[DanK]

Thanks, Dan, for the suggestion. Anyhow, I, too, have found that most non-photographer parents, grandparents, etc., are perfectly happy if the images of the kids or pets are recognizable. When I apologize for a busy background, the general reaction is, "Huh?"

Indeed. It's both a blessing (they rarely care about what I see as mistakes) and a curse (they rarely appreciate the difference when I get one that I think is really excellent).

[pschlute]

What a little cutie

[Tom Barry]

Vinnie says thank you very much.