Quite often when I say I do pet photography composites I'm met with a blank stare. It's just simply that a lot of people don't really know what a composite is. What seems like such a natural word in my world may as well be another language to someone else. So I'm going to break it down a bit.In general, with compositing, you are creating a scene with with at least two elements that weren't photographed together. Now the end results can be for different things. Say I did a pet photography shoot with three dogs. Two are looking at the camera, one isn't. Or there is a family of a large number of animals but it's pretty difficult to wrangle them all together. In this case, I can swap out heads ...
Friday, February 03, 2017
Late last year, I photographed two beautiful dogs for a commercial client, KVP International. The product? The Cone of Shame! You know what I'm talking about, right? The post surgery E-collars. I've seen some pretty funny photos featuring the cone of shame. This shoot wasn't about producing funny photos. We produced great scenic photos in the California wilds -- oak trees, grasses, rocks, mountains, maybe even a little sliver of ocean.Now I'm telling you about last year's shoot because the catalog in which these beautiful dogs is now in the hands of veterinarians around the country. The dogs we had with us, Maggie and Calvin, were real troupers. They ran through the fields with the cones on ...