Ned dog - A photo essay

[werdan]

Off the ute




Over the fence




Get 'round!




Taking on a stroppy ewe.






Move 'em up!




All penned up.




Oops.




That's it. I'm outta here!




Let the slackers do the rest.




Beer o'clock (sans beer)




Taken on Monday in Charlton, Victoria.

[austastar]

I love watching working dogs, whether it be farm work, police, quarantine, guide dogs.
Thanks for sharing
cheers

[Shonky]

Thats great!

Man that pup can jump...

[werdan]

Man that pup can jump...

Oo yeah. He has this whole 'hang-time' thing happening as well. It's great to see in action.

[Chops]

Cool pics,,, Thanks,

I miss the farm life,,,,

[cal415]

Awesome pics

He looks like a very cool dog.

[Chucaro]

Gerat series mate, I can watch sheep dogs in action all day!
I prefer watch them than a footy or rugby match

[dullbird]

fanastic pics as always......Love any photo's of the country at work

[slug_burner]

werdan,

nice essay.

Do you go out with the intent to put the essay together?

What if anything was driving your camera setup and lens choice?

I am no expert but can see some shots I believe are a longer lens with a reduced dof and then in the pens the wider lens has must have been used. Was this all done on a couple of lenses or a zoom? And the last one for now is with the camera setup, shutter speed/aperture selection. Are you working away thinking about this? or is it instinctive?

[werdan]

werdan,

nice essay.

Do you go out with the intent to put the essay together?

What if anything was driving your camera setup and lens choice?

I am no expert but can see some shots I believe are a longer lens with a reduced dof and then in the pens the wider lens has must have been used. Was this all done on a couple of lenses or a zoom? And the last one for now is with the camera setup, shutter speed/aperture selection. Are you working away thinking about this? or is it instinctive?

No. It wasn't something I had planned to do other than I was staying at a mate's place for a couple of days so I want to take some pics. I was going through all the shots when I got home and realised I could make a little story up with them.

I was using two lenses; a 70-400mm zoom for the close-ups and a 16-35mm wide angle zoom for the pen shots and jumping the fence.

Most of the shots I didn't worry that much about the exposure as the daylight was pretty strong. As long as it was above 1/200 for the hand-hold telephotos, it was good enough. The only shot that I really made a conscious effort on exposure was the one where they are drafting the lambs from the ewes. I wanted to capture the movement of the sheep running through, so I stopped the camera down to smallest aperture (f22) to give a slowest shutter speed practical.