I was recently hired by a couple to take some photos of them so they could have some nice casual shots of them and their dog to have out at their wedding. We had a nice shoot at a few different locations outside on a steamy summer morning. After the shoot was done, I was communicating with them via e-mail discussing which photos they wanted to have prints of, and specific touch-ups and changes that they wanted to see. This was from one of the e-mails she sent me requesting a touch-up:
“One more…can i see photo 36 in color and if you can photoshop the dogs butt out of the picture please. ”
So I looked up Photo 36, and this is what I saw…..
Well, what could I say? They were paying me for this work, and if she wanted me to remove the dogs butt…..I guess I needed to try to remove the Dogs butt. It was strange and probably not something I would advertise in the future, but hey, who I am to question what they want? So I got to work and proceeded to remove the offending area from the poor dog. This was my first attempt:
I then decided that maybe it would look better with black hair, so I came up with this:
This is the e-mail I sent to her:
Ok, so I have to admit that I’ve never removed the butt from a dog (or anything for that matter) before. Let me know if this is what you are looking for.
I also removed the grass from his back, touched up your eyes a little, and brightened up the smiles a hair.
I had trouble making it look right with the brown fur, so I also included a black version of your dog as well.
That is also cropped to 11×14 ratio.
It looks like G’s smiling in that pic because his dog has no butt.
Z
Then she wrote back:
that is the wrong picture.
i am talking about he one where we are by the cliff and the dog is walking away….g and I are the only ones near the cliff.
too funny.
After another e-mail, I found out this is the photo she meant:
(note the dog walking away over the guys shoulder)
And this was what she was looking for:
“What we’ve got here, is failure to communicate!”
