----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Beard" < Subject: Re: My weekend with Leica and Rollei and Pentax and a bunch of dawgs
> Last weekend I went to a Carting workshop. > Not go-karting for dogs, something a little more sedate. It covered things > like choosing and fitting harnesses, drafting and backpacking. > With 12 Bernese Mountain Dogs in attendance, I wanted to get a few good photos. > I took an MZ-M with 43mm (Why this combination? I don't know, it just > looked pretty) Very disappointing results. > It was a very bright day, so high contrast with both the dogs and the > background. Film was Kodak royal gold 200. > Photos showed very little details on the dogs. I guess really I should have > been using some fill-in flash to get highlights in their eyes, but they had > enough to concentrate on with all the new stuff going on around them. > I suppose what I'm asking is, what could I have done to get better photos, > and how on earth does one shoot black dogs successfully?! A couple of quick questions..... Can you put me in touch with anyone who can provide either pulling harnesses or plans for making them. Carting is something I want the Rotties to start doing, but I am having a hell of a time finding any solid information about drafting harnesses for dogs. Regarding photographing black dogs, I did a portrait shoot of some of the club dogs on Sunday. I shot Portra 160NC, and overexposed it by a stop and a half. This worked well. The trick is to get away from the contrastorama amatuer crap film and use film designed for something other than Aunt Martha's junky point and pray. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
