Queen Labrador

[lovelife65]

River. Unfortunately, a bit soft. But she is still very cute.

[John 2]

What a beautiful animal.

[lovelife65]

What a beautiful animal.

Very high spirit too LOL
Thank you!
Will try to capture her brother next

[rpcrowe]

Your beautiful pup is growing and growing!

[Yuukon]

What a beauty!
I do notice a slight green haze on the photograph though- I would definitely tone down the green a bit to get the colours more natural.

[lovelife65]

What a beauty!
I do notice a slight green haze on the photograph though- I would definitely tone down the green a bit to get the colours more natural.

Thank you, I need to take a look at that in lightroom

[lovelife65]

Your beautiful pup is growing and growing!

They are! Lots of legs (and ears still). Our male was 61 pounds at the vet last week. River is 55. They are 7 months old now and absolutely hilarious.

[DanK]

Beautiful dog.

I have two suggestions:

1. Watch your backgrounds.

2. Get down, or in some other way find an unusual perspective.

I'm not a great fan of Scott Kelby, but the second comment reflects something he wrote about flower photography that was the single most useful suggestion I found when I was starting out. He said that it is essential to find an unusual perspective, something that is different from the perspective of a person just walking by. if you don't, you generally end up with what looks like a snapshot of a flower. I think this applies to pets as well--that is, one way or the other, find a way to make it not look like what someone would see walking by.

In the case of flower photography, one option--which you don't have with pets--is to get very close and do macro. At longer distances, however, it is sometimes hard to find a perspective. However, I just about never shoot looking down from standing height.

[Shadowman]

Nice looking pup.