This is my favorite kind of motive… I am simply in love with backlight… sunrays and Ninja.
Godrays, Backlight and a Woofer…
Lightroom Editing with Wolf look-alike Siberian Husky Ninja
As explained in the previous post. RAW files are meant to be edited.
Here is what I do… I like to spread out the Histogram a bit… raising exposure, lowering lights, raising shadows… but not too much, I do not want HDR 😁
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Then I do a quickfix to get off the coat color cast by reducing vibrance and giving back some saturation… in the end I also turn dowsn saturation of orange, yellow and green and raise their lightness…
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I reduce clarity (brining it back later with radial mask) and work the tone curves to give contrast.
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Then go to HSL and turn orange and yellow to red and green to green to tone the weird brown head colors. They’d look greenish otherwise.
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Then I add a slight vignette in color priority mode.
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Under camera calibration I do some changes that fit my a6000 + SEL50F18 (slightly red cast) and tone hues + whitebalance
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The mist important step are radial filters to lead the eye to Ninja.. slightly increased saturation, clarity, sharpness on Ninja and reverse outside of him… these are slight changes but the brain notices it.
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That is it… takes 2 min to adjust if you use a preset. Here I spent 10… but did a sloppy job on chromatic abberation
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How do you edit pictures?
At first… I am always shooting in RAW. This means that I get all the data the sensor was able to pick up. If you shoot in JPG, there is already some basic adjustments applied… lens corrections, basic adjustments for vibrance, saturation, contrast and also for exposure.
Ninja’s coat is reflecting colors…
When taking pictures of Ninja there are often odd colors in his fur. In bright daylight, he seems so much lighter than he should and as soon as it becomes cloudy, he looks very dark.
Urban Ninja framed in Graffiti…
Yesterday we took a long hike. I had some spots where I wanted to make shots of Ninja, to show something different.
A longer hike ahead…
We are about to start a longer hike today, hence the early post. Not quite sure where we will head to, maybe to Gonsenheim, maybe to the Rhine… maybe towards Bingen, I’ll let Ninja decide.
Surprised by Rain…
Recently we had many rain showers. I started checking weather sites before we start a long hike.
Imagesequence of a very happy Ninja
When Ninja is running very happy towards me, he will either waggle his head to the left and right or do a little excited jump just like seen here. It warms my heart every time I see it…
Husky Ninja Happy Face
When Ninja is running very happy towards me, he will either waggle his head to the left and right or do a little excited jump just like seen here. It warms my heart every time I see it…
How does your dog express happiness?
Yesterday I asked if anyone – including YOU! Haha – knew a manufacture for dog collars… 80 comments without a single answer. I’d be very thankful for some suggestions.
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Husky ‚Ninja‘ talking growl
You have probably seen videos of Huskies talking. They are communicative and likes to talk. Akiak, my previous Husky, loved it… we could talk for minutes and he seemed to enjoy it.
Ninja however was completely silent during the first 2 years. No barking, no howling, no talking… Eventually I noticed when I tease him with commands, that he would make a very decent “growling” sound… I used rewards to make him bark on command.
I recall how difficult it was… his “growling complaint” when I was teasing him happened once maybe every couple of days and it was difficult to properly reward him for it.
Once Ninja realized that I was not mad at him got “talking back”, I was able to teach a “friendly growl” on command. I am not sure if it serves a purpose or not… initially, he would not bark or growl and I think this is a matter of respect… Even now, I need to encourage Ninja a few times, before he starts to growl/bark.
You can see that he often licks his snout, it is to appease me “This is not serious; we are just having fun… right?”
On a side note:
We lost our collar at our last stay in Switzerland. Can anyone recommend a good manufacture? We usually have some custom made collar made of soft leather that can easily be pulled over his head. The one used in the video is a bit too long and can hit Ninjas teeth. We need a new one!