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Dog Photography Tips for Garage Lighting
By KRae Merk | March 24, 2010
I’m going to start posting videos!! Since I can’t sit here and post a thousand pictures to my blog, I will put them in a video for you to enjoy! So stay tuned! But in the mean time, a few dog photography tips from a photo shoot with Candy in a RV garage.
My brother has a 78 Bronco in the process of restoration, and it provides wonderful and colorful backgrounds for a photo shoot. Now, since Candy loves riding in the passenger seat of any vehicle, it was pretty easy to get her to pose for me, but the hard part was getting the lighting where I wanted it because the lighting in the garage where the Bronco is was pretty poor.
This situation demanded an off camera flash. So I took my Nikon SB-900 and set to remote mode. I wanted a slight yellow tint to the picture so I put a yellow filter on my flash head to give the scene a yellow tint like the sun rising. I put the flash on the hood and angled it through the windshield at Candy’s head. (Note on where I got my flash filters, you know the gels you can get for studio lights? Well, they make a sample ring that you can get and they are the perfect size for flash heads. I think you can get them at any studio lighting store)
Another dog photography tip; I used food to get her to give me the cute expression with ears pricked.
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April 11th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
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June 18th, 2010 at 6:26 am
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