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Getting the Best Pet Shots with Your Phone By Anabel Dflux
52 petcompanionmag.com
Photograph from your pet’s eye level. Eyes are the windows to the soul, and angling your camera to your pet’s eye level is key to creating really striking photographs. Viewers are more empathetic and attracted to images that are taken from the same perspective as the subject’s. Your pet’s viewpoint is intriguing to viewers! Some pets will immediately try to come toward the phone when you bend down to get to their eye level. Just keep exposing your dog to the phone camera until they realize it’s not interesting and they begin to ignore it.
Get those ears up!
Ears up, boys … ears up! Images are static, so a dog with his ears down (even if he’s relaxed and happy) may look sad in pictures. Dogs (and even cats) look more endearing with their ears up, like they’re excited and ready for anything.
ANABEL DFLUX
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ell phone technology has advanced tremendously since the early days of the large, clunky “brick phones.” One of the most appreciated advances was the addition of a camera, making it the critical tool we never knew we needed and which we now carry right in our pockets. The cell phone camera became so popular, in fact, that one of the most successful social media platforms rose out of our love of photography—Instagram. And some of the biggest Instagram stars who emerged are beloved pets—just everyday dogs, cats, iguanas and more, captured regularly at their adorable best. And users eat it up, with many of these Instagram stars being followed by thousands, even millions of people. Because, as it turns out, owners are not the only ones who thinks their pet is the cutest little furball in the world! But capturing your own pet’s charm, as you may have discovered, is not as easy as it may appear, particularly with a cell phone. Here are some tips for photographing your pet that’ll help make your shots Instagram ready.
