{"id":2947,"date":"2015-12-07T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2016-01-04T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:33:22","slug":"what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"What?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the most successful image I\u2019ve ever made. It\u2019s been published several times, including in the New Yorker Magazine. I\u2019ve sold more prints of this shot than any other. And I almost missed it. Of course we often miss shots because we recognize a moment too late, or because something goes wrong, but this shot had a different problem. I made this shot, and made a proof sheet, and put it in a file without noticing how effective this single frame was. I don\u2019t know why I missed it, maybe I just didn\u2019t have time to print, but it ended up in the files. Fortunately I like to go through the old files, because I sometimes find good things. Sometimes you just need fresh eyes to see how effective an image is. Anyway I did notice the image, and it\u2019s been an important part of my portfolio ever since.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Photographing animals in the studio is similar to making studio photographs of children: you need to be ready before the subject steps onto the set. You\u2019ll probably only get the right look one time, so you don\u2019t want to waste that on a set-up shot. In this case the dog came into the shoot after I finished shooting his owner, so everything was ready. I shot the image on Kodak TMAX film with a Mamiya C-330. I used the 250mm lens for the shot. It\u2019s just about the only time I ever used this lens. I liked the Mamiya C-330 cameras because I could afford to have just about everything in the system. I did a lot of good commercial and personal work with these cameras. I still have one C-330 body and the 180 Super lens, a great combination. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to buy a digital print of this image, mounted and matted on archival cotton rag board, please use the PayPal link below. The image will be about 13 inches wide mounted on 16X20 board. The price includes shipping in the United States, for other countries please ask first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This image, and many others, is also available in my book B-Four<\/a>. You can look at the book at this link<\/a>, and order it as well. I hope you\u2019ll take a look at the book.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can buy one of my other books by clicking on the titles below:
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I\u2019m going to be using my blog to add information about images to the fine art pages of my site. This part of the site isn\u2019t functioning yet, but it will be. These posts will enable me to put up information about the shot and to add details about buying prints. I think it\u2019s very useful to talk about the details of creating specific images. I hope to hear from you about this-use my e-mail to let me know: john@siskinphoto.com<\/a>. Of course I hope you\u2019ll also want to buy some prints. I\u2019ll be offering more types of prints in the future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographing animals in the studio is similar to making studio photographs of children: you need to be ready before the subject steps onto the set. You\u2019ll probably only get the right look one time, so you don\u2019t want to waste that on a set-up shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}