driven ~ 12/52
my main aim this week was to show off a little bit of Saxon's intensity in action. I noticed most of what I've done for his 52 weeks project consists of the appearance of calmly posing, but behind those poses is this fanatical intensity for the ball.
This shoot turned out to be a lot harder than I thought, especially since I didn't want to put him in a stationary position and then release him from behind the camera (just a training issue I don't want to get us into a bad habit ... just yet) and I was using the "whistler" so he wasn't getting faked-out to a distance very well, for those "front on" shots. I did get a few flying dog shots but they were all the wrong direction or too far away or too close ... anyway, this was taken rather late in the shoot, so he had lost a little edge of madness, and he's not running fast after it as he would if I'd thrown it in a straight line away, rather it was thrown high and he kinda danced around underneath until he could see where it was going then start to "attack" it, still I think his movement here shows his potential :-)
driven ~ 12/52
my main aim this week was to show off a little bit of Saxon's intensity in action. I noticed most of what I've done for his 52 weeks project consists of the appearance of calmly posing, but behind those poses is this fanatical intensity for the ball.
This shoot turned out to be a lot harder than I thought, especially since I didn't want to put him in a stationary position and then release him from behind the camera (just a training issue I don't want to get us into a bad habit ... just yet) and I was using the "whistler" so he wasn't getting faked-out to a distance very well, for those "front on" shots. I did get a few flying dog shots but they were all the wrong direction or too far away or too close ... anyway, this was taken rather late in the shoot, so he had lost a little edge of madness, and he's not running fast after it as he would if I'd thrown it in a straight line away, rather it was thrown high and he kinda danced around underneath until he could see where it was going then start to "attack" it, still I think his movement here shows his potential :-)