Dog Photography Stories & Tips

STORIES & TIPS

Photos are only part of the story.
Here’s the rest.

When a tiny sausage saves the day

Everything was going according to plan... until it wasn’t. Somehow, a sausage saved the day.

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4 things that will make your backgrounds blurrier

If there’s no light, you’d better have some luck...

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Look serious and pretend you know what you’re doing...

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It was 5:30AM in Vienna, everything was ready and we were about to start shooting... or at least, that was the plan.

A photoshoot without a camera? Is that even a thing?

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Photographing well-behaved dogs is overrated...

Two Vizslas, 45 minutes of light left, and a plan that clearly wasn’t going to work...

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Romeo, Juliet and the castle someone left open...

The location was perfect, the light was terrible, and I was already starting to stress a little...

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It’s all about the pockets

My go-to lens

There are no rules in photography. Except one...

I Remove Colors to Make My Photos More Colorful

Why one of the first things I do when editing is actually remove most of the colors from the frame.

The Owner Is Your Assistant Producer

I Don’t Need the Dog to Stay. I Need Half a Second.

10 Great Photos vs. 50 Good Ones

I’ve Never Been There, But I Already Know Where to Shoot

Sometimes my photos start days before the photoshoot, while I’m sitting at home exploring a city I’ve never visited, looking for frames, lines, textures and locations I can turn into a photo.

The Best Job in the World Can Still Be a Hard Job

Flying around Europe, photographing dogs and teaching workshops sounds pretty close to perfect. It is. Here’s the part you usually don’t see.

5 poses and tricks that photograph really well

Simple dog photography poses, how I choose them and what I do when a dog won’t stay.

Canon RF 45mm f/1.2

A small, affordable f/1.2 lens for dog photography... what I like, what bothers me and why I still don’t use it very often.