You’ll be sitting in your living room, kitchen, yard, and you’ll glance over at your children or pets, and you imagine the unimaginable…your children have grown and have lives of their own…your pets…well, you know. I say this all the time because I know what it’s like to feel loss. The photograph is more important [...]
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Joey the Pom and Molly, identified as a Choweenie, by her mom, are well-loved house mates who like each other too. I know Molly is supposed to be part Chow, but you couldn’t prove it by me. She looks pretty dang Weenie, huh? No matter, they both are adorable. You just have to be patient. And really, in some cases you don’t even have to be too patient. Surprise is a tactic. Meet Dixie and Darlin’. Could they have been any cuter? Again – we just get the cutest folks in our studio…it almost doesn’t seem fair to the rest of you, huh [...] Can’t we all just get along? Come on, that’s funny … Today the topic is photographing eyes. If you are trying to get a nice photograph of a shaggy-around-the-eyes dog, you want to make some preparation. Unless my subject is an Old English Sheepdog, whose eyes are supposed to be hidden, I try to make a point of having the human companion do a trim around [...] Of all the things you need to be thinking about when shooting pets, posing them is probably the number one challenge. They’re pets, after all. None of them come in with Lassie-type skills. I sometimes ask the human companion if the dog(s) know any commands. I always laugh when I ask this of Greyhounds’ humans. [...] We’ve spoken of auto grouping methods before. Baskets, boxes and even rolling up fabric can be used to group multiple animals in a shot. The smaller the container, the closer you can get them. Are these folks lovely or what! Posing a large group of dogs like this is a little challenging, but having their human in the frame makes it easier. Their mom has rescued each of them from different sources; the latest – Lucy – was rescued from under the building where she works. It took many [...] In the studio, it’s usually my intent to create at least one perfect formal portrait. Of course I have never achieved perfection, but that is what I try to execute every time. I can find oh so many things I would like to have improved in this image if I were a painter…alas, I am [...] You’ve already met this stiff legged little fella in the Painted Colt post. I thought I’d post him with his mom today to celebrate what is being called a huge victory in the fight to save the wild mustang from near extinction. |
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