Waltonpets Furtography Session: Nova

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Just to be a little different, Lomo camera effect was added to Nova's picture in photoshop.

"Nova" was a bit cautious and spent most of her time with her ears back listening to the surroundings. I had to get her to perk up a few times.

Wednesday, 9:24 AM - "Nova" and another dog, possibly her mom, were picked up running loose on February 5, 2017. Later in the day, her owner called the shelter and said she’d probably only claim one of the two dogs. Not being sure if her owner would come or not, I decided to get some “glamour photos” posted right  away.  The overcast day allowed me to shoot in some other spots around the shelter. One spot near the hay barn for the Road and Bridges Department made for a nice, fall-looking photograph. (I’ll have to try this spot again when it is actually fall!)
 
 
The foggy day and blue color of Nova’s coat made it a bit hard for my camera to pick the proper white balance. All photography involves something called white balance. Subjects may appear different colors under different lighting conditions (i.e. sun, flash, shade, incandescent light, fluorescent light, etc.). Your camera has a setting to adjust for these scenarios.  Leaving your camera in auto white balance, the camera does its best job on guessing the “temperature” of the light source. It is a good thing to learn how to adjust your camera’s white balance settings. A good article can be found here.
 
However, when you shoot in RAW file format, you have total control to change the white balance of the photo in post-processing. I shoot all the shelter photos in RAW to control not only white balance, but other aspects of each photo.  It is nice to have control; but I can always sit waaay too long and fidget with every little nuance striving for perfection! 

"Nova" was photographed on February 8, 2017 for Walton County Animal Control, Georgia, and put on the shelter's adoption website, www.waltonpets.net. Nova was adopted on February 10, 2017!