The Underdog

The Underdog, originally uploaded by The Puddock.

I was asked to take some photographs of a Jack Russell puppy the other day. Getting great pictures of peoples pets and animals is a real pleasure, and when the animals are young you get the additional cute factor :-) It is however, much harder than it looks when they are this young as they just want to jump all over you, or eat the camera.

This puppy was probably the smallest that I have ever seen, it was tiny. To emphasis the small size of the pup I wanted to include something that would provide a sense of scale to the image, and a nearby four wheel drive vehicle, provided an excellent backdrop. To further increase the sense of scale and depth of field, I had to lie flat on the floor, which was of great interest and fun to the pup.
I chose to process the image as a monotone to emphasis the dog which was predominantly white and to help separate it from the background.

The image was taken with a Nikon D200, Nikkor 75-300mm and handheld with natural light.