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I spent my Saturday morning covered in puppies...got my fill of puppy belly, puppy breath, puppy smell.....It was heaven :D
Went on a photoshoot with my pal Stacy to take pics of a momma with her 4 babies. They are 6 weeks old and will be available to go to good homes in 2 weeks or so. Momma is up for adoption too.
They're all available via:
bellasbullybuddies.org/bbb-webapp/home/index
More pictures (in colour and of all the puppies) available here:
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.618651288180771.1073741...
I don’t really consider photos taken over pints of Guinness in Red Star to be pro-level shooting, but I thought these came out well and captured a nice moment in time.
More to the point I am shocked at how clean they look considering that they were shot at ISO 6400. I know that some folks looks down on the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 as being neither the cheep starter prime or the fancy L-series f/1.2 but honestly it has produced some great pictures for me.
Of course, after these shots were taken, several of the liquid variety of shots were also taken and things sort of went downhill from there. But, like I said, I liked how they turned out.
It was a little too mellow of a night at Red Star for my fiduciary tastes but it gave us room to grab a booth and carry-on largely unmolested by a rowdy crowd. All told, it was a nice night out with friends, even if Luca somehow ended up in Liz’s scarf and later passed out into a bear-like slumber on my couch. Clearly, a good time was had by all.
For those who fancy a little data about how the shots were done, they were shot at the aforementioned ISO 6400 on a Canon 5D MKII with the also aforementioned Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM. They were processed from RAW in Aperture then put through Nik’s Color Efex Pro 4 and Nik’s Dfine anti-noise software. This was one of the rare times when Dfine didn’t automatically select the areas to de-noise but they cleaned up nicely with a little manual massaging.
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While biking through Uptown, I remembered that I've been wanting to check out the old Essanay Studios at 1345 W. Argyle. Now St. Augustine College, Essanay Studio was founded in 1908 as a film studio, known for producing films by actors such as Charlie Chaplin and G. M. Anderson, of the very popular "Broncho Billy" westerns.
For more background and history, here is a great article.
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