Dog Photography Tips

I wanted to give you some basic tips to succeed in getting good pictures of your dog.

Good lightsource is the first key. Even a cheaper camera can take better photos in good light. Avoid using the flashlight on the camera since it can cause discomfort to the dog and make it shy away. Natural light is always the best choice but cloudy and indoor lights can cause great photos too. Studio lights usually make a great light as well.

Low amount of distractions meaning keep your eye open for things that can be a disturbance in the background that pulls the eyes away from the dog.

Get down to the dogs level is a good basic rule. However, sometimes being lower than the dog or taller than the dog can cause good photos in some cases. Be creative, but kneeling down to their eyelevel is usually a very good idea.

Keep an eye on focuspoints so you know where the camera put the focus. It is always a sad thing to think you got a great photo and come in and it shows it had the focus on the background or something in the foreground.

A better camera can usually preform better, like faster shutterspeed so it can freeze the dog mid air or similar fast speed photography that can cause blur. Better the light, the higher the shutterspeed you can use.