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Pet Photography NOW!: A Fresh Approach to Photographing Animal Companions (A Lark Photography Book)

Pet Photography NOW!: A Fresh Approach to Photographing Animal Companions (A Lark Photography Book)
By Paul Walker

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For animal lovers, a pet is a member of the family—but one that is much harder to photograph. Capturing an animal’s charm and personality can be an incredibly challenging (even frustrating) exercise, but Pet Photography NOW! makes the job easier. It shows professionals and amateurs alike how to get the best from their subject, whether it comes wrapped in fur, feathers, or scales. Noted expert Paul Walker is an excellent source of practical advice on locations, viewpoints, and posing; how to make your pet behave for the camera; and which camera settings will give you the best results. A chapter devoted to post-production, including step-by-step Photoshop workthroughs, helps you optimize your images to produce stunning prints of your most successful portraits.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #90450 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-10-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

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Brilliant!5
Loved this book and would highly recommend it to others. Paul Walker really inspires people to have the confidence to tackle pet photography, not just dogs but all pets. There are great tips for either the pro or amateur and fantastic images to encourage you to consider what can be achieved. Paul's work seems to be a departure from the 'chocolate box' studio pet stuff that others seem to talk about - this book teaches you how to capture animals in more natural environments and the results can be far more stunning. I used to think that pet photography would be really daunting but now I am motivated to give it a go and hopefully expand our business from it.

I noticed that another reviewer said there were typos in the text - I think they might be referring to the different spellings of some words in the US or the UK e.g. 'colour'-vs-'color' - reading a book with a few words spelt differently to what you are used to hardly distracts from it being a great read packed with brilliant ideas.

Top dog!5
I have several books on pet photography and this is definitely different - the author is not prescribing a set of camera values to achieve the "seen it all before conventional pet photography shots" rather a "what's behind the picture" strategy to get photographers (amateurs and advanced) thinking about ways to shoot differently for themselves. Having read the introduction and compared the contents to what the author was attempting to achieve, I have to say the book hits the mark. It's also great that the author has chosen to include "illustrative" shots of examples that don't work or could be improved - these are often missing from the vast majority of other books on the market on this subject. Highly recommended!

More than everyday pet mugshots. Get this book5
This is a great resource for pro's, and anyone wanting to learn how to make pet images. Paul was on Pro Photo Show #51 where he talks a bit about his technique and his book.

More than just dogs, and more than just plain poses this book is full of creativity and tips for nearly every situation and is up to date with rodays digital technology.