In this blog post, we will cover a few crucial areas when it comes to taking action photos, and photographing your dog in motion, whether running, leaping, or jumping a log. Real-time top tips, learnings,…
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Taking Better Pet Photos in 2024
If you’re just starting your pet photography journey, to either take photos of your own dog, or you want to become a professional pet photographer in 2024, this is my ultimate guide to areas of photography…
Tips for Photographing Running Dogs!
Taking sharp, in-focus action photos of dogs running has to be one of the most challenging tasks for any pet photographer! But, it’s also amazing to be able to capture a dog in full stride,…
How to Find Your Pet Photography Style
Whether you’re just starting your pet photography journey or you’re thinking of taking clients, you’re probably thinking: “How do I find MY pet photography style?”. Spoiler alert; your style is probably already there, in your…
Deep Green Editing Challenge
Editing green tones in photos can be a huge challenge for pet photographers. To celebrate the launch of our brand new full-length editing tutorial “Dreaming in Green,” we are bringing back an editing challenge! This…
Working with Natural Light in Pet Photos: Background Highlights & Underexposing
Have you ever struggled to deal with highlights (bright spots) behind your subject because it means you have to expose so much that your subject ends up super dark? You might need to think about balancing…
3 Composition Rules For Pet Photography
When you first think about composition in pet photography, you’d probably think about rule of thirds, the golden spiral, or some other mathematically determined pleasing constant. But what if I told you that composition doesn’t…
How to Take Dog Christmas Photos
If you too are looking to take the ultimate Christmas card with your pet this year, you’re in the right spot. In this blog post I’ll share how I took Christmas photos of my two…
How to Choose a Location for Pet Photography
Choosing the perfect location for your pet photos doesn’t have to be difficult. If you’re lucky enough to be able to go “on location”, it can sometimes seem like you can spend hours searching for the…
How I made it: Dreamy Loki
Pet photos are made up of location, editing, pose, expression, light, and more. Sometimes, when we only see the finished product, it’s hard to know exactly what went into that photo… even when we see…
