Boston Terrier

A picture of my buddy "Boston" today with my 35-80mm f/4-5.6 III. I didn't want to use AE lock to compensate for the background since he would have turned out pretty dark and I'm happy with the colors as-is (no post processing).
I actually shot these in AV mode with the aperture wide open, ISO 800 and the shutter speed was still like 1/20. I was surprised that the full images were as sharp as they were given that they were handheld shots. The image lost a bit of sharpness in reduction though.

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One more with our puppy LuLu. Again, this too lost sharpness through HP Image Zone. I plan on getting Photoshop Elements 3.0 soon. Hopefully, that will help.
Obviously, I wasn't looking for artistic images with the bed not being completely made.

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Last one. I like the blurred yawn with the slow shutter speed (1/15).

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Nice shots and nice dog.

Thank you. He is a very good dog. The female? The jury is still out on that one!