Thorn - English Springer Spaniel

Posted by Carol Clarke on Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:08 am

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Thorn

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This was my father's faithful companion until his passing four years ago. She is now thirteen years old and enjoying her twilight years with my mother. With having a naturally white muzzle, she doesn't show her age as much as some other breeds and I am sure she still thinks she's a pup!

All comments and critiques always welcome and appreciated and thanks for looking.

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by Harvey Edelman on Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:11 am

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Beautiful friend and companion with a very expressive face. Balanced very well in the frame and would look really nice on the wall. Three small nits: I see a rinng around the dog as if a Gaussian Blur was applied to the BG perhaps just a bit heavily. Also th shadows are just a touch muddy and some of the hair detail and texture seems to be lost and just a slight magenta cast. But still I love the image.

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:33 am

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Thanks Harvey, I agree on all counts.

I had hoped to get her outside for a few shots on our last visit, but the day just poured with rain so she sat in Mom's house surrounded by all sorts of furniture and annoying things!! I ended up just taking this snapshot and having a go at removing the unwanted objects - obviously not too well!!

She has such a lovely face, and is really now on borrowed time, so I didn't want to miss the opportunity.

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by Harvey Edelman on Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:45 am

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This is all very easily fixed BTW

. I did this in less than two minutes on a compressed jpeg and so ther's not much finess possible. With the master file it can be done a heck of a lot better. And FWIW hopefully everybody using digital is shooting in RAW. There's a lot more latitude that way to work with the image. Here's the quicky revisions:

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:52 am

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Yes I always shoot in RAW.

Thanks Harvey, your re-touch has certainly brought out a lot more from the shot! Just a slight green cast now to my eye, but apart from that its great!!

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by Alan Melle on Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:32 am

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A beautiful, sweet picture. The original post looks better to me although a color shift somewhere between the two may be better. I just want to reach out and pat this little pooch on the head.

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:38 am

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Alan Melle wrote:A beautiful, sweet picture. The original post looks better to me although a color shift somewhere between the two may be better. I just want to reach out and pat this little pooch on the head.

Thanks Alan, she would love that!

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by Paul Skoczylas on Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:23 pm

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I like the colour balance on the original much better.

Cute dog. I'm partial to working breeds (esp. the sporting breeds), even if they've never been used for work!

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:06 pm

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The first seven years of her life she was a working dog Paul, until Dad became ill. She comes from a long line of bird dogs, but for the last six years she has just been a pet. Take her for a walk in the woods though and she snaps to attention and hunts non stop! although a little slower now!!

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by AlexC on Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:26 pm

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What a wonderful Dogie, surely she doesn't look her age, wonderful face and lovely hair, Eyes that talk, Maybe soon I will post an Image of El Loco who lives in my backyard, except for my Monk Parrots, my house is a repository for my children's pets, conveniently left behind as they have moved out of the house!!

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:38 pm

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I'd love to see your Loco Pooch Alex - even if it is a left-over!!

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by Jill on Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:26 pm

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Carol, Have you ever experienced love at first sight? I love Thorn!!!!! Her face has such expression and conveys her sweetness. I do prefer your original post!! I'm sure Alan and I can pet Thorn to our hearts content!!! But beware of El Loco ...

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by Paul Klenck on Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:10 pm

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Thanks for this wonderful post. She's beautiful.

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by Carol Clarke on Fri Jul 16, 2004 2:43 am

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Jill wrote:Carol, Have you ever experienced love at first sight?

Yes, when I met Dave. Fate certainly had that one mapped out for us!

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by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:30 pm

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I usually don't care for photos of people's dogs, but this image and this dog are really lovely.

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by Gaelo on Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:42 pm

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Carol. This is so sweet. I like the first post better.

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by phojo89 on Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:41 pm

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Carol you did a beautiful job on this photo. What a wonderful photo of your Dad's dog. Carol W

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