so in today's video you are going to see what to do with a dog that
is not amazingly well trained and how to work with them and the owner
on a shoot
today we're going to be in the woods very close to home
photographing the most adorable dog in the whole wide world who
coincidentally isn't amazingly well trained he
is a beautiful dog and brilliant to work with but
he does not have you know a reliable wait or anything like that
so we capture this video basically to be able to show you guys
what i would do if i'm with a dog that maybe doesn't have a solid wait or
isn't reliable when you know if you're in like the
woods or a environment where potentially it's quite
dangerous if they were to run off so the whole of this session is done with the
dog on a lead and you guys will get to see what i would
speak to the owner about how i would direct them and also
basically just what i would do on a shoot i am not
going to be speaking at the camera very much in this particular session
when we actually get going and i'm going to show you just a few pictures that we
take throughout the session i will try and include the straight out
of camera and the edited files but i'm not going to edit every picture from
this session because this was not a session where i was going
to edit every picture from the session so
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so without further ado let's jump straight into the shoot i'll meet you in
the woods so percy is six months old
apart from eating sticks what what behaviors does he know
so do sit yeah for some snacks probably best to keep him on a lead
he won't run off he just might not stay in the right place okay
cool that's fine will he be scared or uncomfortable if he's like put on a log
if it's a smallish log like this log over here. He rarely gets scared.
he seems quite confident little guy to be honest. Nothing phases him.
okay right that's good so potentially got some logs
he's quite good at standing yeah so that's good as well but no that's fine
so he doesn't know how to lie down on command so we've got to sit we've got
a stand um a little bit of a stay but probably
keep him on lead for when we need to do the pictures even though he's not going
to run away okay so we're in the woods and it was
supposed to be cloudy but it's not so we're going to shoot
anyway with the light coming through but we're
just going to take care to not have bright light behind because of how small
percy is in comparison to like a border collie
all of the pictures i will be flat on the floor so yesterday i was here
photographing a dog i didn't realize until i got back to the car that my chin
was covered in mud because i'd been literally faced in the
floor so that's probably gonna happen again
and that's fine so what we'll do is we'll go to a few different locations in
this wood with percy and we're not looking
to get a thousand different pictures in
different scenes we just want a few really solid ones
and for him he likes his treats so we'll see if we can rustle the treat packet
for attention but if we've got a really good
location and a really good shot then i will use vocal noises as normal
and we will probably get a head tilt i would imagine
i would imagine. kit: 7200 2.8 gm sony a7r 3
uh that's it really to be honest my settings which i know
will be 1 200th of a second iso 1000 and 2.8 f 2.8
and it never really changes in here slight up or down on the shutter speed
the reason why you can go so low on this 200mm
because it's got image stabilization so if you've got image stabilization you
can go uh much lower with your shutter speed
which is why this lens is great that's it let's go shoot let's go down
here it's i feel like it's not that like it's not that sunny we can work
with some of the sun oops so what we'll do is we'll take him into
this gap which is always a good photo gap
which is here what we'll do is we'll put him
probably about so i'm lying basically looking at the lines in the back so
there is two lines of trees with the tree at the end don't worry about the
tree at the end what we'll do is we'll put him about
here facing this way and then i will be over there what we
what do you remember from the shoot days how like we hold the lead
so we'll get him i'll get his attention and then if you just step to a side with
your lead as high as possible like so that your feet are
semi out the way and then i'll say okay or good or whatever it might be
and at that point you can move him out the way and i'll take another shot of
the whole scene without you or him in it and
then it's a lot easier for me to just take you
out okay okay perfect so his spot we're not gonna be that
specific but his spot is about where that rock is you can move
the rock if you want to um and in a straight line between here
because i'm gonna be over there okay okay okay
let's rock and roll
don't worry he's okay
perfect good boy give him another treat good boy
one done nice and straight forward he's so cute though i love his ears
dan can we get a frenchie i probably don't need to say this
to the camera because we've been here before
but always looking for scenes lines light all the time so i'm not ignoring
you lana i promise i'm just looking at everything going on in the
background all of the light coming through what
what i want is really to lift him off of the floor
dog will be okay with a dog there is a dog
because he's smaller i can look for smaller things than i would normally
look for but again we need it to be in the shade
and it's too much light i reckon we go up to the dark bit what
do you think let's move on up so we're going to go
back to the main track and then take a left
and then go up there okay off over here okay with the snacks
ow tree branch oh do you need the packet it's fine it's
fine fine i'll leave you the package get his
attention yeah okay i closed it sorry thank you
that branch he's having me
good boy let me just check i've got it
bear with... do you want more kid boy
perfect that'll do awesome he's a professional onwards
should we put him on on the log because i've not videoed the log so this
is a log that's higher up off the floor so if he's
if he's not comfortable and if you're not comfortable or if he looks like he's
just gonna move around too much then we will stop and not do this okay
because it's not worth an injury it's just it's just not it never is
we've got bright light that way and left bright light that way so what we'll do
is we'll shoot that way which is better for him
because he's got more room to latch onto right so the plan is i'm gonna be
over over there sort of on the floor against the log in the mud and
we want the little guy here so do you see how that comes to like the top of a
ridge there and then goes back down we kind of want
it's like front paws at the ridge but you don't don't worry about being
too precise anywhere in this kind of zone
is fine potentially wait till i'm in position
and then pick him up and put him on and potentially we might use Tom from Hull
to to be a spotter at the other side so if he looks like he's going to fall
off the other way tom's there to potentially step in and
just try and break i mean it's not a massive drop
but safety first it's great he's confident
i just can't break a dog just can't break a dog so if you wait till i get
into position and then it depends what side you want
to be on i'm left-handed so i i'd probably be like this side so he's
like here but if you're right-handed you'll probably go that side
and then um just stay as far as possible out of the way
but it's okay and then for this one i'm definitely gonna take another one with
me with none of you in it okay okay brilliant everybody is
briefed oh don't fall over i'm gonna go from this log actually this
time i think yeah ready
you can't have enough
perfect the reason why i'm taking quite a few pictures in one go is because
i only have one shot to get this shot i feel like i'm going to start singing
eminem i don't want to be in a situation
because i'm shooting at 2.8 at 200 mil it's a tiny little slither of focus
i don't want to be in the situation where the focus has accidentally picked
up his nose and i've taken one shot and that's it
because then i'm screwed and although it's fine for like instagram
that's not good for the purpose of why we're shooting these so that's why i'm
constantly got my finger my thumb on the back button focus so it's constantly
refocusing on the focus point and as i move slightly it's going to
hunt and just grab on a little bit so out of say three or four pictures
that i've shot in quick succession the focus point at every single one is
slightly different and so i know 100 one of them is absolutely perfect and
then when lana took percy off of the log and
i took another shot that was purely so that i could easily
composite out lana in the lead because she was there
spotting something sense i thought that'll make sense
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