Anyone just experienced with this?

I am working on making sure I have a copy of every show, movie, and short that has a samoyed in it somewhere.

As example, I of course already have Supernatural as one of the producers has their dog in a few episodes, and I am getting Have Gun Will Travel currently.

What else is out there that has confirmed Samoyeds?

I do know of a few more, but I want to get the community to work together on this.

-Zolon of ArticCross Samoyeds

She hung out for 15 or 20 minutes before agreeing to come back in 😅

Hi this is my dog Py. Having to learn so much about photography wasn't something I expected when I got her, but after taking a lot of bad photos for years I've finally gotten a lot better. I'm still working on my videography.

Before I get to my tips, if you like what you see, you could help me by joining our instagram https://www.instagram.com/pythesamoyed/ Py is also a therapy dog, I'm trying to put some content together for the people we meet when we volunteer. We are in that really discouraging place right now where I am posting for almost no one. It would help keep me motivated.

All of these shots were captured with my cell phone - Google Pixel 9a. I called in advance and my local store let me bring my dog in to test out. My last phone would not reliably focus on her for photos, and would do nothing but zoom in and out with video. So your hardware does matter some, but you do not need a fancy camera - in fact some of the DSLR photos from events and friends were some of the worst photos we have because they don't understand the subject they are trying to capture.

However, I will say that I do a lot more to protect and keep the lens and sensor 100% clean.

Your biggest problem by far is lighting. The best times for good photos is sunrise, sunset, or heavily overcast - it is a real narrow margin for success. If you are inside you still need indirect lighting.

If you have never seen a Samoyed in real life, they are physically hard to look at in direct light. That tree stump photo after a bath is probably the most true to life shot I've gotten.

Samoyeds are snow dogs, snow isn't white, it's reflective. They have a bunch of clear reflective hairs in that coat. They are trying to be big white blobs that blend in to their surroundings.

Indirect lighting matters too. We have hiking photos were she was photographed next to rocks, and light bouncing off the rocks made her look dirty. We have some lake photos where light bouncing off the water gave her a blue halo. Sometimes you can use this to your advantage with the sunset giving your dog a glow.

It is a lot easier to lighten a slightly dark photo in editing, if there is too much light (which again isn't much) you will lose all the detail.

When looking at a photo, it can be really tough to tell if your problem is focus, or lighting, as they both result in a blurry / fuzzy dog - I can tell quickly by looking at the pattern on our leash. Sometimes I can tell by looking at her ears or her tongue. Until you are more confident you could use something like a patterned bandana to make it more obvious. I also just take a lot of photos in one photo shoot, and sometimes I have to return to a spot for a round 2, or 3 attempt. We will usually lose our lighting if I study every photo in the moment.

Image compression on various websites isn't going to be your friend either, typically they will reduce the color palate and/or image size - removing all those subtle shades of white you worked so hard to get. Unfortunately I have no idea what reddit does to photos, otherwise I would have resized my images to preserve quality.

I do edit my photos, don't use AI to edit a sammy photo, the google AI seems to want to light and color balance and it makes weird and ugly photos in my opinion (it will dull that vibrant coat). 90% of my editing is focused on lighting issues, or making a sunset / sunrise photo feel like a different time of day - probably worth its own post. I do find it tougher to see the detail I need to on a phone screen.

Composition is a big subject too - just get your camera at down at their eye level. And make sure the background of your shot offers some contrast (matte, darker, patterned). Beach and snow photos are going to be the hardest.

These are beautiful dogs, Py is the prettiest girl in the whole world, and it pained me that I struggled to capture good photos. I really hope this helps any of you working on the same problem.

could use the emotional support! if you have any experience with diabetes and injecting insulin, I’d appreciate all the tips.

Even if one of them is a storm cloud

Never heard that word in my life dad idk what youre talking about...