10 Easy Tips For Amazing Pet Photography
With Smartphone in every hand, capturing photos of pets has become a hobby for many. However, for high quality pet photographs, you not only need a good professional camera, but also proper skills. High level of pet photography is a bit difficult, so here are the top 10 tips by Sam Crawford that will prove helpful for you.
1. To begin with, first relax! You need to clear your mind from other affairs and concentrate on your project and doing this important. Take some deep breaths and hang out with your pet to find out the type of pictures you want to click. Stay focused on the current moment as pets often do something surprising at any minute.
2. Go through the Basics! Before doing anything else, you can go through a photography book that gives details about pet photography. You’ll become frustrated soon, if you don’t know the basics of capturing pets’ images.
3. The shade velocity should be no less than 1/250 of a second or quicker. (Read the manual to figure out how to do that) You need fresh, clean pictures with no signs of blurring. If you’re utilising a point to shoot, then simply put the speed dial on.
4. Find A Good Background! Ugly backgrounds simply ruin pet photos than anything else, except bad exposure, so look at it and move your pet to another area if the background has a garage, a dirty wall or a garbage bin.
5. Move In Close! Ensure that you move in near to make the viewer feel of being in that spot. This will likewise trim out the background issue, which you can't wipe out.
6. Continuously concentrate on the eyes! Unless you’ve a horse as a pet, you have to get down sufficiently low to capture pictures of your pet at eye level. If you’re capturing images of a cat or dog, then lie down on the floor and utilise your elbows to get the camera up to your eye.
7. Try To Keep Everything Simple! Focus on catching one thing and one thing only. First decide, whether you want to capture a photo of your dog & your room or just your dog? Choose! It is typically difficult to catch two thoughts in one photograph.
8. Evade Harsh Light! Are you planning to shoot outdoors at noon on a sunny day? Wrong decision! There’s no doubt that sun helps to capture some of the most mesmerising pictures, but the situation is not the same when it comes to pet photography. Capture images either in the early morning or in the evening, when the harshness of the sun reduces. Cloudy days are also considered ideal for pet photography.
9. Props Can Be Used! Use props to catch astonishing expressions. Use a toy, a whistle or a bright colour cloth. Be prepared! Props just work until the pet becomes bored and exhausted, so you need to capture images immediately.
10. Have A Good Idea About Flash Range! Remember the flash range of your camera and stay inside the range to click images that aren’t too dark or too bright.
#Bonus Tip: Patience! It’s the key when it comes to photography, especially when you’re doing pet photography. Sam Crawford, an expert photographer says that you never know what’s store in the future, so you have to be always ready and have lots of patience to capture photographs of animals.
Sam Crawford Photography
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