Dogs catching treats

[Tobiasly]

Originally posted by Undertoad
One-person operation! With autofocus on, that means I had to hold the shutter button halfway down (to hold the focus) while throwing the treat and timing for a slight shutter delay. A tricky maneuver.

I know whatcha mean. When Al was still a pup, he had a lot of trouble jumping up on our bed (it's a king size that's pretty high off the ground). Sometimes he would almost make it then bounce off the top edge, and when he did make it he would have to scramble his legs to get a good footing.

I thought it would be funny to take a picture of him in mid-jump, which quickly proved much harder than I thought. I had to throw his toy down the basement stairs, wait for him to run down to fetch it, then run into the bedroom, jump on the bed, turn around, set the focus, and wait for him to run in.

I had a Kodak DC280 at the time, and the delay between pushing the shutter and the picture being taken was about a second, so it was very difficult to time it so he was actually mid-jump. This is the best I came up with: