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Shooting Challenge Pets Gallery 2
Just got a new 50mm f1.8 d lens for my Nikon D90... just messing around with the new aperture :). My dog, Gizmo, is a 7 year old Chow Chow / Lab mix. He's awesome. He was just hanging out in the kitchen, as usual, when I took a few shots with the new lens. -Adam Shafer
Our Black Lab Moxie loves the water. While at the cottage she is almost never dry. This means our legs are almost never dry too.... While we sit on the dock relaxing with a drink we have to block her so we can have some piece. Mox being a little put out over this will sit on the shore keeping an eye on us. We often joke that she looks like she's growing there like the water flowers. At some point we always break down and let her join us :) -Adam Slivinsky
The story of the shot is a fun one. If you take a look at the photo you will notice that it is someone sitting on the toilet with their pants around their ankles….. that person is me. My new little puppy decided she wanted to rest inside my pants while I did my business in the loo. When I saw her rest he head on my waistband I whispered to my wife to get the camera. I set it up, set the timer, put the camera on the floor and snapped this shot of little Betty relaxing with her Dad in the toilet. She makes a little bed for herself in my pants every time I go to the toilet, she is one brave pup. I love this photo of our little Betty. -Alex Brooks
Camila is a Lovely dachshund my wife and I own. We have well trained our dog. So it was not a big deal to obey and pose for the picture. The challenge was to show her tongue. We know she love peanut butter. So we give her a little bit. While she was tasting it, I took the picture. -Alvaro Gutierrez
The camera is my mom's, so I'm not sure what it is, but it's a low-end Nikon dSLR. ISO 640, 70mm, f/4.5, 1/125 -Angus Bohanon
I got this shot when my kitten first arrived at my apartment a couple of weeks ago. I never had a cat before and I found out the hard way that I am allergic to them. I found a friend to take good care of her and this picture reminds me how much I miss her. -Artie Melo
Jake was just chillin in a bush so I got all up in his face with my camera. That's all there was to it. He is a natural model. -Austin
Story of the Shoot: Katie is a long haired chihuahua that I adopted from my wife when we got married-one of those situations where you take the good with the bad. Anyway to setup this shot, I grabbed a black blanket we own and threw it over a make-shift close line. Then I setup a few lights from around the house until I got the look I was aiming for. Reading lamps, table lamps, office desk lamp-I used them all. The hardest part was getting the dang dog to sit still long enough to take the shot. After a couple of dozen shots, this is what I ended up with. So you might be asking yourself, isn't this guy a professional-I mean look at his company name. Shouldn't he have a studio setup for this kind of thing, with a decent camera? Actually yes, I am and I do. However, I decided to shoot this at home on the spur of the moment with the resources I had. It just goes to prove you don't have to have a $1000 camera and pro lighting to take a decent shot (although it doesn't hurt). -Bryan Carter
So our tabby cat named Moxie absolutely loves her blue string. We've spent probably a hundred dollars on cat toys, but no, she loves this string more than anything. She pulled it out of one of my blue sweatshirts and has been playing with it ever since. In this case, she burrowed herself under our doormat to hide from her enemy/best friend poised in attack position. -Chris Allen
Specs: Canon Rebel XTi using 16-35mm f/2.8L lens ISO 200 @ 27mm, f/2.8, shutter speed 1/50 Edited using Aperture 3 -Christian Yepiz
Just a picture of my roommates Bengal cat. I feel like I would have the same expression on my face if someone woke me up bright and early. -Chris Vasta
Benji (our wonderful 4 year-old shih-tzu) was off to get a haircut yesterday and we set up a photo shoot for him of his longer hair. He was more than happy to comply and we can't wait to capture more memories of him with his new haircut! -Cindy Hsu
Shot using a Pentax K100D with Pentax SMC 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 lens. 18mm focal length, 1/45 shutter @ f/5.6, ISO 800. Processed in Lightroom. -Colby Shepherd
I shot this photo on a Nikon D3000, with the standard 55mm lens. The shutter speed was 1/200, and the aperture was 7.1. -Courtney Huffines
Costco did a great job of developing it in 1 hour, and I scanned the photo in on my scanner to upload for the contest.
Funny story with the tortoise's name - my mother named him after she couldn't remember the name of the Ninja Turtles, and thought that one of them was named Armadillo, despite the fact that I kept reminding her they were named after Renaissance painters. :) Also, one last note - Desert Tortoises are endangered in the wild. If you see one, please leave it alone - it is against the law to touch, harm, harass or collect them. I received one from a friend of the family, who had 8 eggs hatch and were unable to find homes for all of them. -Doug Abel
Chillin' Evening at home. This is my boy Bishop, laying with my girlfriend, days before he was (is) to have an amputation surgery on his right front leg for a cancerous tumor. He's a cool cat, acts a bit more like a person/dog then a typical feline. -Eric Holman
Taken of my cat Harley, aka the Bird-man for the cooing noises he makes. He was perched on the back of the couch, his favorite spot for napping and surveying the goings-on of the household. He had been dozing off when he saw our other cat, Fatty, enter his territory. He surveyed her intently from his post, ensuring she wasn't touching his precious scratch pad, and after allowing me to snap a few photos he leapt down to give her a thorough tongue-lashing (or bath) for sinking her claws into his toy. -Erin McEntire
I have been watching my parents (very old) Westie, Duncan, for a while, and I play with him in the yard of my complex every now and then, so I decided to snap some pictures. After playing for a while, he'll start to just ignore his toy and chill out. I really liked this shot because it shows a sort of plaintive, calmer side of dogs that people often tend to get passed over. -Ethan Bennett
Here is a shot of our Boston Terrier Bessie. My wife and I have been married for just a few years and are both sucked into our studies trying to get through CPA examinations (I promise two accountants in one household can be more exciting than it sounds). In any case I miss being able to dabble in my right brain and playing with the camera every once in a while. We don't have time for kids because both of our jobs have been very demanding, along with the 40 hours of studying a week that goes along with getting things done, so Bessie is our child for now and it suits us fine because she is all any pet owner/parent could ask for.
The set up was easy - at 11.5 pounds she is a small subject to shoot so I put her on top of a chair stool and used the wall as a background. She minds really well, especially if she knows that there is a treat involved so she stayed in "pose" mode for a few minutes allowing me to take enough shots. -Grant Williams
just got back from mexico, with these little souvenir hats that just happen to fit perfectly on my cats. Needless to say they were unhappy wearing them, but I think that adds to their overall badassness. -Hamilton Chang
Jett is 6 months old and never sits still. This was taken during a brief 2 second pause while he contemplated life, love and food. -James Schokman
My dog Super Panda and I live on the remote Kanaio coastline of Maui, HI. We are in the middle of the worst draught in over 50 years and thirsty Bulls have been breaking through my rock walls and fences to eat the green plants in my yard, even the cactus! Super Panda had a long night chasing Bulls and Cows out of the yard, and on our daily walk to the ocean kept stopping to yawn. He looked so savage, yawning on the boulders, that I had to snap a photo. -Jeremy Johnson
On a rainy afternoon this German Shepard/Golden Retriever mix attempts relaxation. -Justin Solinsky
Story: Our Bear loves Gizmodo as much as the next geek. But there's unfortunately only 2 iPads in the house to share among 3 people, so when it comes time to surf the web, there's no competition. Yes, Pooh's paws work well on the iPad. Besides, who's every heard of a cat that types? -Kyle Hsu
The photo was taken with a Canon 7D using a 70-200mm IS II telephoto lens in natural light with autofocus. It was the autofocus that permitted to capture this moment. -Martin Lubell
We just got a new kitten (her name is Lizard - "Lizzy" for short, "Elizardbeth" for long) a few weeks ago. I recently caught her staring intently into the tank so I got out the camera. I got a few with her and the fish nose to nose, and a couple where they both turned to face the camera! -Michael Berger
shot with a Canon 7D using 24-70mm f/2.8L lens @ f/2.8, ISO 400, 1/60 sec -Paolo Sanchez
from a iPhone 2g camera crop in microsoft office picture manager -Pinho Castro
I constantly and obsessively photograph my animals, and by now they are all quite used to having a lens shoved up in their faces while they are napping. Here my Bengal kitten "Blue" sits curled up in the summer evening sunlight on a king size bed claimed entirely by the felid population of the household (which is now at the crazy-cat-lady number of five). He is a tough shot because he has the attention span of a grasshopper—that's kind of a Bengal thing—and he's somewhat darkly colored, but the light tonight allowed me to photograph him without a flash. The idea was to get his eyes in focus with a blending of whisker, stripe, and fur in the background. He obliged with a model pose. Who says house cats can't be glamorous? -Rachel Hector
Story of the Shot: When I saw my puppy laying in this unique pose, I quickly ran for my camera as fast as my legs would carry me. Koko Bean had tired himself out and was curled up on the couch and put his paws together on his own. This is the moment that every photographer hopes to catch. This shot is called "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep" and captured the perfect moment that will soon be portrayed on the wall in my home. It reminds me that one hasn't truly opened their heart fully until they have a special pet in their lives.
Puppy's Name: Koko Bean Breed and Age: Pomeranian, Male, 6 Months Old -Rita Vetsch
This shot was taken with a Nikon D90, 35mm f/1.8 DX lens and only natural light. -Scott Benson
It was a complete opportunity shot. They were playing, and I must have shot 50 pictures. I was lucky to get this great shot out of the bunch. -Scott Bradach
The story behind this pic is my amazing husband just bought me my first "good" lens for my new camera. This particular pet of ours is names Safira after the dragon in the movie Eragon. Anyhow, I have been doing a flickr page for a few months now and have been having quite the difficulty getting pictures of one of our other dogs. I decided to test the new lens faster shutter speed out on them. This was the first picture taken out of the group. If you notice, the little one down below is missing a leg. We picked her that way from the pound. She had been hit by a car or something and had her leg amputated before we found her. We've named her HopScotch because of her jumping to walk technique. -Shawna Prince
Portrait of MU -Simone Gallina
This picture was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel t1i dSLR using the EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens on manual focus. I believe I used the Program mode, and set the color tone to mono. The only editing that was done was an "autofix" on Microsoft Office Picture Manager. -Steph Peterson
Luna has a survival story to tell. Her mother gave birth to 5 kittens (her included) on top of an old cabinet outside my house. It was a warm summer morning in 2004. She was unfortunate enough to fall from the cabinet, getting stuck between it and the wall, where she remained trapped for two days. No one noticed it, not even her cat mom. But then we saw her, on the ground, by the cabinet. That little, barely born kitten had made her way out from oblivion and, more than six years later, she's the only one left.
Luna is the most peaceful cat I've ever had. She plays with bugs but doesn't kill them, or eat them. She spends her days chilling around everywhere in and around the house, pretty much like every other cat, I guess. At least that's what my cats do. Occasionally she "crashes" into the ground and starts rolling, apparently asking for attention. If none is given she sleeps, or closes her eyes and pretends to be asleep. That's when I took this picture. I descended to ground level, as I usually do when I play with her, and shot her lovely, sleepy cat-face. And that's it! -Vasco Ferreira
Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T1i Focal Length: 55 Aperture Number: 5.6 Exposure Time: 1/500 -Victor Flores
I was about to go out on a photo walk when i walk into the backroom to this adorable little puppy we rescued from the streets of Detroit about 3 months earlier relaxing on our couch asleep, the only thing she moves when i start taking pictures of her is her eye lids which she opens and looks right into the camera for this picture. A normally rambunctious puppy she is unusually calm when i start taking this picture and after only taking two or three snaps she is up and about ready to play! -Will Benhauser
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Aug 25, 2010 01:59 PM 
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