Gnocchi and Peanut

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

Our pet Guinea Pigs Surprised

We've had them 8 weeks now, and they've gone from being just 300g tiny balls of fluff:

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To handsome 700g young boars Very Happy

(all shot with the Carl Zeiss Planar 50/1.4 @ f/2. Cool

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Peanut posing by ManualFocus-G, on Flickr

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Peanut by ManualFocus-G, on Flickr

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Gnocchi posing by ManualFocus-G, on Flickr

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Gnocchi and his favourite sport by ManualFocus-G, on Flickr

They are a lot of fun to watch and have loads of energy! Laughing

Tesselator · Joined: 25 Jan 2010 Posts: 235 Location: Japan

Nice!

I saw the 1st shot and thought Oh No, boring pet shots... But then I scrolled down! Nicely done! GJ!

My only suggestion would be to use a smaller aperture! Wink

The shallow DOF is working against you in these.

Excalibur · Expire: 2014-04-21

Indeed nice shots and I like the blue background.......just think these cuddly things are food for some predator in the wild.

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

Thanks for the kind words, agree about the shallow depth of field. I was shooting at night and these critters move quickly, so I was forced to use f/2.8 or faster. Flash scares these poor buggers (prey animals indeed!) too much Laughing

ChromaticAberration · Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 819 Location: Portugal

A bit overexposed sometimes but nice portraits Wink

Pontus · Expire: 2016-08-25

That last one is so cute Very Happy