Help with shooting dog :)

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Hi everyone,
I am new with this kind of photography, I went out today and took my gfs dog out to the field, and took the camera to see if I could get some good shots, I've managed to get some good shots of her jumping in the air, chasing ducks etc but I can't get the clear shot when the dog is in movement, always seems to come out a bit blurry.
I was wondering if anyone could help me with what settings to use on my camera, if it helps I've got a Nikon d3100 with standard 18-55 mm lens.

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Marco
 
after reading the title i thought

buy gun- aim- and pull trigger.....


try snapping from a lower level, that helps endlessly, either coming towards you or just past you... if coming out to blurry shorten you shutter speed and you'l obtain less blur.... also try panning the camera, then you'l get a little blur in the background but the dog in pretty good clarity etc....
 
Not familiar with Nikon cameras, but on Canon the focus works in two different ways. First is One Shot, where the camera only focus once and then you take the shot and other one is AI Servo were the camera focuses continuously. You would have to look up in user manual what Nikon equivalents are called. :) (also good light helps a lot) Also fast shutter speed is a must, as the dog moves faster than you can imagine. :)


Shot of friends dog jumping. :)


Fly jumping by Oskars Lablaiks, on Flickr

f4 1/2000 iso400 3fps :)
 
Thanks for the help everyone, I have been taking the pictures down low but using wrong settings duh lol. Like mentioned above I need to set to continuous servo af mode. I shall need to give this a bit of practice to perfect it, so maybe a few more dog walks :P
Really appreciate all your help everyone :)
 
As others hae said try and shoot from a lower angle. For bigger breeds i tend to go lower down which emphisises their size. For medium sized dogs i shoot from their eye level. If your wanting them moving them make sure you have a fast enough shutter speed so you may need to up your ISO or loer your DOF to get that shutter speed. Try and get some where arouns 1/500th and if its your first time then have the dog at a distance and running across your field of view--easier for slower focussing lenses to pick up.
 
I find 222.70works well for dogs when they ,stupidly, chase the deer and sheep.......
 
The closer you are to the dog the faster shutter speed needed, so just another factor to consider with this type of photography. Just thought it was worth a mention.

Realspeed
 
does the d3100 have continuous focus and continuous shooting?

might be worth a try, and maybe (of it's a bit overcast) shooting at a higher iso 400+ ?

it's hard though, just keep going and keep shooting - all the duff shots will pale into insignificance when you get that one shot that works :)
 
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