I had the opportunity to photograph 7-week old Siberian husky puppies this past weekend. It was so much fun. I've never had puppies who were so cooperative. Sure, they squirmed around a bit, but mostly they would stay where we posed them. It takes 2 or 3 helpers to arrange the dogs, push them together, and if one of them is hidden by another, that has to be fixed. To make it easy (and because I was lazy and didn't want to st up an indoor studio), I photographed them on my 'puppy bench' that I bought for $50 in Indonesia. I placed the bench on my patio table and set up a black background behind them -- just a piece of black fabric clamped to two light stands. I shot at f/11 to make sure I had enough depth of field because dogs have depth. Some breeds, like huskies, have faces where the nose protrudes several inches from the eyes. Since I don't want to have sharp eyes and a blurred nose (or vice versa), I used a medium-small aperture. The ISO was 640, and the shutter speed was 1/640. I used a 100-400mm Canon zoom and stood back about 6 feet from the set. All of these puppies had the most amazing blue eyes!
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