Habitually Good

It has been quite some time since I posted on Photography (a subject quite close to my heart). My last post was back in March when I visited Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary. Since then life has been in a tumble – our dog Trinity gave birth to an awesome litter – and our hands have been – as a lot of people reminded us – litterally full. So, while I have been taking some photos on and off of the puppies, I didn’t get a chance to process and post them.

Most recently, I decided to take photos of Peach (the pup that we are going to keep with us), and it was becoming an exercise in frustration as she is so active and moving all the time. I was shooting at night, and indoors. And I didn’t want to use a flash, but for my abilities, she kept giving me blurry pictures.

So, I thought, that maybe I need to improvise. A thought struck me, and I turned all the lights off, and made the room pretty much completely dark.

Yes, completely dark. Now, I setup my camera flash (a Canon 580 EXII) so that instead of throwing light directly at the subject, it was throwing the light at the ceiling. And I pulled out the reflector that the camera has got in it so that some of the light gets reflected to the front of the camera. This has the effect of throwing diffused light on the subject.

Since everything in the room was dark, I was able to slow the shutter speed down a little bit, which allowed me to capture Peach sufficiently (because the lens mostly only recorded the image when the flash came on, and any movement while the shutter was still open got neglected because it was in the dark.

The results are below (click to see larger versions):

And here’s one of the other puppies, shot in normal light, as he jumped up to me.

Hope you enjoyed the photos.

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