Happy To Be Wet

I kinda wish I had more of his ears, but shooting with a 100-400mm, I

was lucky to get as much of him as I did.

Scott, the secret is to hold the camera vertically - you automatically get the ears.  A second secret is to not crop too close - there are so many pixels in a modern camera that leaving a few out by close cropping later, at editing time, will give you more control.

Jerry

Thanks, Jerry, for that secret, but I'm not about to hold the camera vertically shooting my dog running at me through the water and the only crop was a little off the sides.  I was also zoomed in all the way and this was the last shot of many consecutive from him quite away from me.  I didn't expect to even have a keeper out of it, but I do like it, so here it is.

You are right about the ears Scott! But who could compose in such a dynamic situation, after all we all know there are ears on the head, ha!

PDEl

Thanks Pierre. 

Jerry, holding the camera vertically maybe isn't as bad an idea as I originally made it out to be. It might actually work for some people.  I have tried it a few times shooting my dogs running at me through the water, but they are very fast and keeping good focus and them properly positioned in the frame and level is much more difficult than shooting horizontally and just cropping the sides off.  After all, these new cameras have so many pixels, losing some of the image to cropping is no big deal.:)  I was after a shot of him in the water, so not being able to get all of him in the frame when he's out of the water and this close to me doesn't bother me and wouldn't change the way I shoot.  I usually don't even bother to shoot him when he's out of the water this far.