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Imperfect Ears, Perfect Heart
Imperfect Ears, Perfect Heart
saiphfire


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Challenge: Beauty In The Everyday (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: my bedroom
Date: Dec 17, 2007
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/15 sec
Galleries: Emotive, Animals
Date Uploaded: Dec 17, 2007

 My new German Shepherd puppy Umbra. She is SUCH a sweet dog. Her ears probably won't actually remain imperfect - they cross in the middle right now (at 5 months), but may stand up straighter as she gets older. According to the vet she does have a slightly imperfect... how do I put this politely... hooha, but since that wasn't visible in the picture I decided not to mention it in the title ;) I anticipate getting lots of comments on the fact that you can't see her whole ears. I had a couple pictures where you could see her ears, but none had the same intensity so I decided to hope people will understand the underlying emotion and use their imaginations.

Editing: Crop, resize, correct color cast, increase contrast, neatimage, sharpen, slight global increase in sat of red and decrease in sat of cyan and yellow, another sharpen, another neatimage.

There's a lot of noise in the picture due to the ISO 1600 and the focus is pretty shallow due to the f/1.8 aperture, but puppies move fast and it was kind of dim in the house so you gotta do what you gotta do. Even with all that it is still a little softer than I'd like. Oh well.

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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
 12/24/2007 11:46:22 AM
Nice capture – but I would have preferred even more focus on the eyes.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 12/22/2007 12:10:14 PM
A cute image of this guy. He looks sweet. The DOF isn't the greatest, and the out of focus nose is distracting form the rest of an otherwise good shot.
Pentax Optio W10
 12/21/2007 09:33:11 AM
really kind eyes...
but everything just blurs away at the edges...
Canon Digital IXUS 400
 12/20/2007 12:04:19 PM
Not enough depth of focus for me - the nose bothers me. But otherwise I like it a lot.
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/20/2007 05:10:55 AM
Oh those eyes are just wonderful! Great looking dog!
Canon PowerShot A640
 12/19/2007 09:08:01 PM
Amazing.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 12/19/2007 09:00:31 PM
:) Fun pet portrait. Proximity to lens caused both some noise and some pretty severe OOF. But a really fun shot. :)
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 12/19/2007 06:20:26 PM
lovely caption and a beautiful capture.
Nikon D7000
Nikon MF Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AIS
 12/19/2007 01:32:14 PM
The eyes ARE the window to the soul... I LOVE his ears!
Sony DSC-H9
12/19/2007 01:31:15 PM
nice pic!!
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/19/2007 01:29:57 PM
The focus is too showllow for my taste here, ears specially are important here (title).
Pentax K-R
Pentax DA L 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL
 12/19/2007 09:41:52 AM
Good, but more DOF would have helped.
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