Run!

[sheeny]

I took our dog Billy down to the oval on the weekend and let him off for a run which he absolutely loves. At the same time I thought I'd practice taking some "sport" program shots...;):)

I took some sport shots the weekend before at Jarita's soccer game and quickly realised there was room for improvement - especially keeping the subject in the middle of the field of view with continuous focus on! So I thougth a bit of practice on Billy before the next soccer game would be in order.

Here's a few of the better ones. I hope to get it a bit sharper in bright sunlight as the shutter speed should drop and the aperture close down to improve depth of field a bit.

I also had another go this arvo, but the light was just too dark. Lots of motion blur at 1/40 sec so Billy looks like he's going really fast when you can make out that it's him!:lol:

Al.

[leon]

Al, they are great, real action shots, and so clear, well done.

leon

[joe_smith]

Thats a nice staffy Al, they are very good dogs we used to show them :)

[sheeny]

Thanks Leon. Each facet of photography has it's challenges and little traps to learn. Most of my photography for the last 20 o so year has been mainly landscapes, panoramas, macros, speleo and industrial, so the new camera is giving me a chance to play with other types now. All good fun...:)

Al.

[sheeny]

He's a great dog! He's got a really good nature and character. He's the first pet I've really been associated with (he belongs to Lyn technically;)) in 30 or so years. My last dog was a bull terrier labrador cross, and he was really great. He was my best mate for a lot of my childhood/early teenage years since we lived out of town. Billy is very similar in a lot of his character ways.

Lyn was given Billy for nothing. His previous owners had to get rid of him as they had a fish pond with koi in it... sometimes:lol:... after he'd eaten a thousand dollars worth of fish, they decided he had to go! I'm not complaining!:lol:

Al.