Your Result:
Actually... your foundations look pretty solid.
Based on this very short, very unscientific quiz 😅 you’re doing okay. You have a good understanding of perspective, composition, light, white balance and more foundation skills – at least from the assessment of this one image!
Where you might find the most to work on from here is in the details. Is your dog’s pose telling a story, or just… sitting there? Is the gaze direction intentional, creating mood, story or connection, or is it looking at a dark space or thick tree trunk? And in your editing, are you making decisions about how you want the photo to feel, or just adjusting sliders until it looks “better”?
Those are the things that take a technically solid photo somewhere more interesting. It’s the question I’m asking my Learning Journey members ALL the time: “What do you want me to know about this time/place/moment” and are all the elements in your photo working to support that?
One thing to try:
Next time you’re shooting, before you take the photo ask yourself: what do I want someone to feel when they look at this? Let that question guide your decisions- where you position yourself, where your dog is looking, what you do in the edit.
Ready to go deeper?
The Pet Photography Masterclass is my complete creative system — everything I know about taking and editing photos that feel like art, in one place. We cover composition, light, location, pose and expression, storytelling, and a full start-to-finish edit with a RAW file included so you can edit along.
It’s for photographers who have the basics down and want to understand the whole picture.
