This page is about Gioka, our black Labrador Retriever which was born on Monday, May 7th, 2001.


Date: Saturday, July 14th, 2001
Comments: This is one of the first pictures I have taken of Gioka. The picture was taken the day we bought her. At this moment Gioka had just been taken away from her brothers and sisters and had just met us.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 35-80/2.8 @ 80mm + T32
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: 1/60th second at f4
Digital edits: None

Date: Sunday, July 15th, 2001
Comments: This picture was taken on Gioka's second day with us. We had just arrived at a local recreation park and Gioka was still a bit timid when she explored the grass.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: +/- 1/125th second at f2.8 or f4
Digital edits: Gamma corrected (Gioka still came out a bit too green and too dark though).

Date: Sunday, July 15th, 2001
Comments: A bit later that day, Gioka settled down and was observing the things going on at ease.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: +/- 1/125th second at f2.8 or f4
Digital edits: Gamma corrected.

Date: Sunday, July 15th, 2001
Comments: Now, isn't that the cutest puppy you've ever seen? :)
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: +/- 1/125th second at f2.8 or f4
Digital edits: Gamma corrected.

Date: Sunday, July 15th, 2001
Comments: Gioka is a real digger, she loves to dig up stuff, hide cookies by burying them, or simply dig holes for no apparent reason. The sand on her snout testifies that she had just done some digging or shoveling.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: +/- 1/125th second at f2.8 or f4
Digital edits: Gamma corrected.

Date: Saturday, ADITL shooting period (what's the exact date?), 2001
Comments: In this picture Gioka is quite a bit bigger already, it is one of the pictures I took during the shooting period for ADITL 4. I like the powerful effect one obtains by putting a wide angle right in her face. Unlike the position of the leash seems to suggest, she was not being pulled upwards but rather she was just playing with the plants.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 28/2
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: +/- 1/30th second at f2.8
Digital edits: Gamma corrected (I'm not satisfied with the results, though).

Date: Sunday, 1 week after the previous picture, 2001
Comments: This is a studio shot, just for the occassion I had quickly set-up a simple studio with a white background and a black piece of cloth on which Gioka could lie down. The lighting set-up was a straightforward twin flash set-up with both flashes firing into small white umbrellas at 45 degree angles of Gioka (to the left the T32, to the right the T28 in single head mode). White diffusers were also used at both sides of Gioka. The lighting was done in TTL mode, rather than using manual flash.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2 + T32 + T28 Macro Twin Flash (in single head mode), several T cords, multiconnector, PBG2, MD1 (single mode), etc.
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: 1/60th second at f2.8
Digital edits: None

Date: Sunday, ???, 2001
Comments: This is another studio shot taken during the same session as the previous shot. Gioka was fully relaxed now and started to chew away on one of her chewing toys. This scan worked out much better than the previous one.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2 + T32 + T28 Macro Twin Flash (in single head mode), several T cords, multiconnector, PBG2, MD1 (single mode), etc.
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: 1/60th second at f2.8
Digital edits: None

Date: Sunday, ???, 2001
Comments: Later that same day, we were lucky to have some beautiful light during the golden hours. At first I was tired and was thinking of taking a raincheck on taking more pictures, but in the end I got motivated enough to bring out the camera and shoot a complete roll of Provia F of several subjects. I'm glad I did, as the day after, the grass had been cut so all the nice little flowers were gone and it had rained during the night, leaving the grass in a messy state.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2 + MD1 (single mode).
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: +/- 1/125th second at f2.8 or f4
Digital edits: None

Date: Sunday, ???, 2001
Comments: Another picture from this session. In this picture one can see really well just how quickly puppies grow. Gioka is much bigger already in this picture than in the first few pictures shown on this page. A lot of the typical fluffy-puppy features are gone already and each day Gioka is turning more and more into an adolescent dog.
Gear used: Olympus OM-4Ti + Zuiko 100/2 + MD1 (single mode).
Film used: Fuji Provia 100F (RDP III)
Exposure: +/- 1/125th second at f2.8 or f4
Digital edits: Gamma corrected (Gioka came out a bit too red though).