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Dog Photography Tips for Inside
By KRae Merk | March 19, 2010
Now, to start with, not every indoor situation is going to be perfect for lighting. (the same for outdoors too) So for indoors I usually use a flash unit, a Nikon SB-900 with my Nikon D300 and Nikon 18-200 VR lens. The photos below were taken with the set up described above, when I use a flash, its usually set in manual mode with a white balance preset set by the camera, or shutter priority. Now, I all most always have my flash set for rear flash settings.
In this photo, the flash head was pointed upward sligtly upward and left.
The flash head on this photo was pointed behind and sligtly above my head.
The flash head in this photo was directed behind me and sligtly to the left, and she had a lamp behind her too, to get the warm glow behind her.
When I use the flash, I usually turn the flash head toward a nearby wall, or behind me, or use the flash sync method and hold it away from me or put it on its little stand and tilt the head in the desired direction. Now, for the dog. To get a desired expression, I usually don’t use food. Why? About 95% of the dogs I’ve photographed are very food motivated, and if the dog isn’t trained to sit still, and you show it food, the dog ends up in your lap not in the desired place. I typically just use odd hand signals, toys, chirps and whistles, have someone stand nearby and get the dogs attention, things like that. But my style of dog photography is dogs being dogs, so I don’t pose them that often. Now, the photo below, to get Candy to look at me, I just chirped and she looked and click, got the shot.
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