SchnauzerBoy

I have put Aubrey in for her 2nd run at a Jump Novice Course this weekend along with her first go in the Agility Novice Course.

She is really only good at Jumping as we have a long way to go with weave poles. We practice a bit at home, but dont really have the space to do more than 8 poles.

Hopefully she'll get a pass in the Jumping.... the Agility was more of a "keep her occupied during the morning" entry, but you never know! Turns out that they'll both be later in the morning, so won't have anything to do but sit around for 3 hours first... she'll get so bored!

We do it just for fun.... we both enjoy it and it gets us out of the house. TBH if she doesn't get a pass in JD this weekend I probably won't trial her again for a few months as we obviously need more training!

Glad Ching Ching's surgery went well :p Hopefully she is on the mend now.

YellowGirl - I'll send you the original photos to use as they are quite compressed on here. Glad everyone likes their photos :D

I have now ordered a full studio setup so will be advertising for models for portrait style shoots from August onwards

Mine are on the way, but as I mentioned in the meet thread, I didnt take too many as it was nice meeting and chatting with everyone for a change

Welcome to the forums and your pup is very cute

As an owner of 2 Mini Schnauzers I can give a little advice on the smell after feeding as both our 2 get all manner of food on their beards in the same way as your pup does.

We wash ours with Aloveen every 2 weeks, or more if they get muddy and dirty. It is a really good shampoo and the leave in conditioner is also excellent. I'd recommend it without even blinking!

Get them from your local petstock and wash regularly. Wouldnt hurt to do a small mixture to wash the face with if it gets too much. Also smell the ears for yeast infections a few days later, and make sure that after you wash your pup you dry the ears thoroughly

Good luck

In response to others, the 50mm 1.8 is awesome on the camera

I also have the 28-80 f3.3-f5.6 cheap arse 2nd hand lens which is amazing on the d80. Keeps up and is as sharp as the 24-70 f2.8 on the D700 without costing an arm and a leg. I got mine off ebay for $30

Congrats on the D80.

As I also have a D80 I have quite a bit of experience with it as well as a few ebooks PM me your email and I'll send you a few.

Also, if you have any questions on settings etc, let me know First thing though is set the colours up to vivid and the exposure compensation to +0.7 as they are know settings in the D80 world to improve light / colours

Welcome to the D80 and the dSLR world, your first photos are already great

Aubrey doesn't care what breed you are, so long as you like playing chase!

If you are talking about the one on Oaklands Road then we'll be there around 3:30pm

Look for 2 Mini Schnauzers... one close to its owners and one enjoying herself!

Having seen both breeds at dog sports, the goldens seem to behave and know the equipment better than the GSD.

As stated before, no dog is "great with kids" without lots of training, supervision and more training. Either breed can bite, react and harm, no matter what other people / websites tell you.

I would stay away from rice and pasta as these tend to be fillers and aren't too good for them. You can feed them small amounts if you have to.

What are breeds are the dogs and how long until your financial situation improves?

You can always go to the local butchers and get cheap offcuts, chicken frames ($1 each), chicken necks ($4 per kg), stuff from supermarkets about to hit useby dates that are reduced (lamb flaps, lamb shanks etc) and you can end up feeding them quite well.

If you are lucky Leonards and other butchers might have cheap chicken mince, or a pet shop might have some :D

I'd get a bag of quality kibble for morning meals and maybe uncocked bone based foods for dinner. Still balanced and away from some of the tinned expensive foods. Occasionally we give ours a mydog, which are about $1 each too :D

Agree to what others have said.

Check the original contract you had with the photographer. Most likely is they have rights to the photo to do as they please with it and you are not entitled to any royalties of payments from it.

If that is not the case, then the photographer needs to pass on part of the payment they got for selling the photograph.

IMHO and looking at the contracts I have, there are 2 varients set before the shoot begins and depends on the shoot.

1. I have full rights to the photos and I can do with them as I please, and so do you.

2. I have full rights to the photos for a specific purpose, and anything outside of this will require further permission from you.

Check the print of what you originally signed

Good luck

Andrew

Can get swindled everywhere!

Just love how they say to look for local breeders or a pet shop!

Way to go news.com.au!!! Advertise those backyard breeders and puppy farms!

RIP Kira and run free of troubles.

Missed and never forgotten.

Ooh does someone have photos? :rolleyes:

DOF is quite an art, and most of what others have said on here is correct.

The correlation though is between your aperture, the distance to the subject and then the distance to the background.

As AnnieK has said, if the birds were close to you and you had the f3.2 set, you would have had a much shallower DOF meaning the background would have been softer, more OOF and with some Bokeh.

Not sure on the settings of your shot, but might be worth using the DOF calculator to see what would have been in focus.

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

From there you can then work out the Bokeh to remove the background, but basically you would have had to be closer to the birds, have a lower f stop and the background be further away. Distances are the key

lol.. I think most of us feel inadequate next to Ruth so you're not on your own there.

+1 from me on that comment too

We are going to try and come along... has been ages since our 2 have had a catch up, and my camera needs a work out too

Hopefully we can make it, but it depends on how good a mood I am in with Aubrey after her debut Jumping Trial on Saturday morning ;)

We have the cuz type (bad cuz, dinosaur) and tough toys JW Pet Hol-EE roller balls that are fantastic and our 2 can't get too destructive with them.

They've had their fair share of $2 toys

I have been asked by a few people to take photos at Agility Trials before and have done it for the love of taking photos and providing for my friends.

Since then I have also provided shots to the club which are used on their website.

However, now I am trialing, not sure if I'll get an opportunity this weekend... but we'll see :p

Might lend my camera to someone to see if they'll take the shots for me with my dog

Not sure whether it is completely classed as hitting the ring for the first time, but this coming Saturday Aubrey will be trialing for the first time for JD

Some days she is with it, some days she is stubborn, let's see which Aubrey turns up on Saturday

It is at the Agility Dog Club of SA ;)

Wow... gorgeous shot and congrats

Nice one... when are we going out on a trip to show off our new toys?