Your dog is an important part of your family, your best friend even, and for these two reasons you will want to take lots of pictures of him or her.
Achieving that precious shot that will last a lifetime may not be as easy at it seems. Here’s the K9Online.com Guide To: Taking The Perfect Pet Photograph
A dog is like any other subject in terms of photography technique – composition, focusing and exposure being the three main areas to perfect, the fourth and most problematic, is getting ‘subject participation’.
Try to photograph your dog in a natural environment, like, for example, whilst you are on a walk, or you are in the garden or when he is alert and he is interested in the things around him.
Use a background that will contrast with the colour of your dog. Don’t photograph your black Labrador in a coalbunker at night, and don’t photograph your white poodle in the snow.
Use the available light wherever possible, and try to avoid using a flash as this can unsettle any nervous dogs and also give the dreaded ‘red eye’ effect….{+}
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