Agility class photos!

[crysania4]

I brought my camera to class today in the hopes of getting a handful of pictures. Usually we get a fair amount of down time but not this time of course! She had us paired up and being distraction for someone else (more on that later). I ended up getting only a few and I was pretty disappointed with it though the quality was good. But then I was talking to Heather after class and said something about how I'd stick around to take some of the next class, but I didn't want to be too much of a distraction. Tina's response as she walked by? "The dogs need distraction. Take photos if you want to!" So I stayed and took A TON. I ended up with about 250, of which 126 turned out decent enough to upload. Some turned out really good.

I am SO HAPPY with this camera. You can see how photos taken around the same time of day in the same barn with my A230 came out here. Granted I wasn't using the best lens but still, the graininess sucked.

I shot most of the ones today at ISO-1600, which let me get pretty fast shutter speeds (sometimes even 1/2000 or higher if the dog was light). Many of the photos came out totally sharp, with just a bit of grain. Many of the photos I deleted weren't blurry. They were just bad photos (dogs jumping out of the camera, etc.).

I shot everything using my 135mm f/2.8 prime lens and then cropped if needed.

And for those who haven't seen them on FB...a special treat! I got photos of Dahlia!

This was Penny, my partner for class.



Indy, the black lab, who I like a lot. Indy is about the same age as Dahlia though she has tons more energy and drive.















Q (I think it's just Q though I could be wrong) doing a nice 2on/2off.



I forget the name of this dog.






This Aussie is GORGEOUS.



And apparently thought the tunnel was something to walk ON. I wish this was on focus but it was hard to quickly focus when there was a jump in the way.









Indy again.



Q again. God I LOVE Belgian Tervs.









Handsome Yellow Lab whose name I don't remember. You might remember the story about the Lab who busted his owner's lip in the tugging mini-clinic? This is the dog.









This is my friend Heather's dog, Guinness.

































LOL EARS.



Flying treat!

























































And now for Dahlia! Tina was nice enough to run her for me so I could get a few photos. It was NOT a brilliant Dahlia run by any means as she was tired and confused a bit. But she did well enough for me to get some decent photos.

















I am ridiculously happy with my camera!

Comments

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

Why do you have to go through a bunch of obedience stuff to do agility? That seems weird to me!

[rikkitsune.livejournal.com]

Because you need a certain level of training before you can work with your dog effectively. My club won't take you into their agility program until you're Level 4 or higher. We're Level 2 currently.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

Oh geez. No offense to the club but I HATE that. It can be good to have a solid sit and stay but I can't imagine what else in obedience class would really be that helpful to agility. Our classes started at the foundation level which helped teach sit/stays and recalls in terms of agility functions. Obedience and agility are really HUGELY different things and I'm always irked at places that require high levels of obedience BEFORE agility.

Tina starts people with very young puppies, puppies who don't even know their name, in the foundation stuff. And it all works great that way.