My dog photographed with Fuji Acros 100

Sorry for your loss. It's a beautiful photograph lovingly shot.

Nice shot of your dog. he/she looks lovely and full of life. The Hassy did a great job in what must be your expert hands.

So sorry about your loss. I know how you feel. I lost my best dog, Scott, to aggressive cancer exactly a year ago. He is on my mind every day - even though I have 5 other dogs today. I knew he wouldn't be around for long and shot several rolls of him with my 500 c/m.

Like Mark Twain wrote: "The only bad thing you can say about dogs is that they don't live as long as us."

Black dogs are often difficult to capture on film - you did a nice job.

I don't know if he still has him, but the photographer John Sexton, used to have a black lab named Zone0

I'm cat person, but here's another quote..."Be the person your dog thinks you are". Ted was the photographer his dog thinks he is and shoots with film His dog is definitely "Film worthy".

16 years with you, he had a good run.

ted_smith said:

Hey Matt....thanks for posting. Yeah, I remember you petted him when you popped roud that day. It was one of those things...he was going downhill daily and I had to accept that his best days were gone and things were only going to get worse. He was overdue when you saw him to be fair and I was putting off the inevitable. But yeah, he was a great dog and thanks for your comments (how is the scanner?).

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Its a tough descision to make. I know when the time comes for my pup to go I'm gonna be heartbroken.
The scanner is all shiny and clean now. Done a few slides with it, but I'm mainly learning how to use the software to get the best from it. Thanks.

Wow...I didn't think my quick post about my late dog would generate so much heart felt responses and praise for my pic!

Thank you all guys. It's warming to hear of others experiences and pleasing to hear that people like my photo of Stan who is (as one reply stated) immortalised by the photo!

It's funny how I have found photography with my Hasselblad, in many ways, easier than using an SLR. Though it has no metering or wind on or AF, I am finding the act of simply looking at a scene, working out where a mid-tone shadow falls, metering with the incident meter, set the lens and shoot. The exposures come out spot on nearly every time! I don't have to worry about if something is too white or too black...it's all taken away. I am already applying the same concepts to my Nikon F5 shooting in manual mode.

Incident metering nails the exposure all most all the time. My personal suggestion, you can get 'Beyond The Zone System' book which indeed explains a lot about it.

More over, Hasselblad is kind of SLR too. ;-)

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I have recently had the same experience as you. I am sorry for your loss. I know I am still broken hearted a year after both of my American Eskimos died. They ARE the best dogs in the world!

I am very thankful that I was so priviledged to share my life with them.

The best to you.

Dave

ted_smith said:

My faithful hound of 16 years died a few weeks ago. I'm very sad about it, but that's another matter and not one that I expect APUG members to help me with!

What I thought I would do though is use the opportunity to show what I think is quite a fine photo of my beloved pet taken a week before he died taken with my sublime 501CM and 80mm CZ lens...Fuji Acros 100.

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Ted, I'm sorry for your loss but...
I just can't get it out of my head that "My dog photographed with Fuji Acros 100." Literally. "What's wrong, Lassie? Don't you like Kodak? Tri-X is Rin-tin-tin's favorite!" Personally, I have no hope for my cat photographing with anything, because she's so paranoid. Maybe if I attach a swat-toy to the shutter release, that might help, although the moment that the mirror slaps, she'll be out of there. But a dog could nom-nom the ball end of an air release.

Always good to have Memories. A lovely photo indeed. Sorry for your loss.