[Paladin2]

It was fun when I first got a Black Lab to take her walking down a street with plenty of people waiting for the buses. Most people took a BIG step back when seeing the big white teeth of a smiling, happy Black Lab.

The biggest problem with a furry black thing is trying to get a good photo when almost all incident photons are absorbed.

[null and void]

The biggest problem with a furry black thing is trying to get a good photo when almost all incident photons are absorbed.

I can relate. When Darling Daughter (Blond and blue, just about the whitest non-albino you'd ever see) started dating, her first Beau was a rather dark Filipino lad.

I had a dickens of a time photographing the happy couple. If he wasn't a featureless shadow, she was a blank white slate with two black dots for pupils.

FINALLY I had him stand in full sunlight and her beside him in shadow.

That worked!

[5th MEB]

You got that right, it gets dark up here at night (out in the middle of nowhere) and Sophie, Jack, and George are invisible at night.
They go running out the door after something and disappear.

[afraidfortherepublic]

You hit the answer to the black dog problem right on the nail! They are difficult to photograph. It takes a pro like Levy to capture the nuancees in their fur and faces.