A while ago I posted an article about photographing children, now in this opportunity I’d like to write another article about photographing pets. The reason is mainly because both subjects have at least one thing in common, they cannot really be directed to do a certain pose or to smile to the camera, or even just to stand still, hence I think it’ll be interesting to write about it.

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In this article I am going to focus on photographing dog and cat since they are very popular pets. Pretty similar to children in terms of photographing, to take a good pet picture it’s best to make them do something interesting and waiting for prime picture-taking opportunities. Says you want to photograph your dog, try to give her a bone to chew or play with. I know there’s a possibility that your dog will be too excited playing and ignore you all together, well here’s another toy comes in such as squeaky toy, surely it’ll draw her attention. Try this, when your dog is playing with the bone, with your camera set to multi-shot feature and ready to shot, squeak the toy behind the camera and start shooting, hopefully she’ll still chewing the bone when she tries to find where the squeak come from. Read More

In this guide to photography post, I would like to talk about photographing children. As we all are aware photographing children can be very chalenging, you simply cannot tell them to “pose and smile” to the camera, it just won’t work, instead you need to “warm them up” first, make it fun so they’ll enjoy it.

Generally there are 2 factors you’ll want to prepare before photographing children:

1. External factor, things that are not involved the subject which are: camera, location, props, timing whether it’ll be in the morning or afternoon, and camera’s equipments such as batteries, sufficient space on memory card, etc. Read More