The past few weeks, a large chunk of my work-load has been strictly dog headshots. We need headshots of every dog in the joint (that’s several hundred), and eventually all the other kinds of animals too, for a new adoption module on the website. Luckily, I shot the very last dog on the list this afternoon (though it’s guaranteed new dogs will arrive within the week and need their photos taken as well).
95% of the time, the dogs pose nice and pretty for us. It usually takes some coaxing with treats or a squeaky toy, but even the tougher ones manage to get done pretty quickly. The other 5% are not so easy. They are either too aggressive (with photos needing to be shot through a fence) or they are feral and won’t come within 200mm range of you. And of course, if the feral ones ever stop moving and actually sit for a moment, they sit with half their face in the sun and half in the shade or some other ridiculously impossible scenario to shoot. I tend to hate the situation even more than the dog does.
Since posting a billion doggie headshots would get really old, really quick, here is but one, my favorite from this week. Meet Spanky. You should adopt him.
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