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PhoDOGraphy: How to Get Great Pictures of Your Dog
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Product Description
It’s doggone useful, and doggone adorable, too!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #151936 in Books
- Published on: 2008-10-28
- Released on: 2008-10-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780817427184
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Reviews
About the Author
published in six languages. She runs her own pet photography business, Bark & Smile
Portraits (www.barkandsmile.com). She lives in Little Silver, NJ.
Customer Reviews
Two thumbs way up!!!
Never ever have I gotten a new photography book and had every person in my family pick it up and thumb through it from cover to cover, but the new book "PhoDOGraphy - how to get great pictures of your dog" by Kim Levin changed that.
Why?
Every other page has a full size dog portrait on it while the opposing page not only has the chapter content, but often has 1-3 more thumbnail images. And these images aren't there as "window dressing", every single image is an example of what that chapter is covering with a full explanation of the "how's & why's" behind each of the sample images.
The first thing that came through was that Kim is a real dog lover, and of course this hit home with me as I am the proud dad of two miniature schnauzers, one of the ways this was apparent is Kim's emphasis on the safety of the dog when shooting outside of the confines of the dogs home.
While the book covers every topic you can imagine regarding photographing dogs, it's a quick read, I read it from cover to cover (each time) in just a couple hours (which means normal people could read it even faster).
Kim covers it all, from photographing dogs indoors, outdoors, dogs in motion, how to make use of different weather and seasons, photographing single dogs, multiple dogs, puppies... and more.
Ever see a picture of a dog and they're looking into the camera with its head cocked to one side? Kim walks you through how to capture that exact image.
One of my dogs is black and I can never seem to get a good picture of her, well Kim devotes and entire chapter, "The Black Dog", to this problem.
If you haven't picked up on it yet, I loved this book. It is well written, extremely informative and stuffed with outstanding images from cover to cover.
If you put a copy on your coffee table I guarantee that not only will every person who walks in your house pick it up, you will here things like "oooooh" and "aaaaah".
And you'll learn a heck of a lot about photographing dogs too.
Scott
www.WeeklyPhotoTips.com
We love this book!!!!
We bought several copies of this book. We think it is one of Kim Levin's finest. The pictures are amazing and the advice is very helpful. I am going to buy a few more for holiday gifts.
Cute pictures, no real info
I bought this book looking for advice on photographing my dog. Black dogs are notorious for being difficult to photograph, and this had a chapter specifically on black dogs. But there was very little useful advice.
The author comes across as sweet and kind and loving dogs, and she has some interesting photos. But the info is typically, "I used this film at this speed on this photo" (over and over and over...), and "lighting is important" and "dogs alone are cute", "dogs in groups are cute", "dogs with their owners are cute", "zoom in on dog parts is cute", "dogs inside are cute", "dogs outside are cute", "dogs on the beach are cute", and on and on.
I read it in spare moments over the course of three days, then gave it away on our towns "freecycle" list.
