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Dog Photography Tips on Different Angles
By KRae Merk | April 23, 2010
What are we all trying to do with our photography? Make it look different than everyone else’s so it stands out and in turn you get more notice. I’ve figured out that one different angle that gets a lot of notice is where the dog is looking away from you with ears perked, in my experience is when the ears are perked you can get great expression even though the dog’s head is turned.
I’ve always been fascinated by odd or different pictures of dogs, so I usually never pass up a opportunity to photograph a really different angle or a dog doing a downright odd thing. The photo below was taken on the fly as usual but I’ve always been fascinated by it. Is it pretty? Not really. Is it stunning? Not really. But it’s just plain different and you usually have to study it in order to see what it is and that’s what I love about it.
Another dog photography tip on different angles is getting down on their level, I mean down on your knees and if possible, on your stomach. Now I will warn you that I’ve been run over more than once doing this maneuver, (one time I got PLOWED over by three, nearly full grown Great Pyrenees while sitting cross legged on the floor photographing my client’s Doberman pup during a doggie play day) but the results are usually worth a few bumps and bruises.
The three Great Pyrenees that plowed over me;
And the Doberman playing Tug-of-War with the Rottweiler
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Topics: Blog | 4 Comments »
May 1st, 2010 at 4:23 pm
lol sweet info dude.
June 3rd, 2010 at 7:11 pm
this post is very usefull thx!
June 23rd, 2010 at 6:22 am
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