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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n#1: Unique Perspective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Taking a fresh perspective on things is eye-opening. It captures your eye. It can make you stop and think. It can make you giggle. Capturing a photo of your well-known doggie subject, but from an angle its not normally viewed, and you make people look again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are lots of ways to inject an unexpected angle into your canine compositions. These are some of my favourites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slash, from Guns N Roses, said: “To be truly iconic you need to be recognizable in silhouette.”<\/em> Well, he wasn’t talking about dog photography, but you get the idea\u2026. a great photographic silhouette makes for an impactful image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pictures have a bright background and no light falling on the foreground subject, throwing them into deep shadow or silhouette. For a classic example, think of a wolf howling against a full moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because the dog will have no discernible detail, key to an iconic photograph is using the dog’s pose to convey a sense of action or emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Position the subject in the foreground, against a bright background such as the sun, moon, skyline, window, or screen. Use a wide aperture and get down on a low level and point the camera upwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the name suggests this involves getting in the water with your dog and half-submerging your camera. Of course this requires a waterproof camera. These create some wonderfully unique photos that convey a sense of the fun experienced from your dog’s point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There will be natural distortion that occurs with these style of photos – it\u2019s the result of diffraction as the light travels through water, which will bring the dog’s legs closer to you than his body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This requires a bit of planning and good sunshine or lighting. You’ll need a bright day, since the sun needs to be strong enough to light beneath the water, not just above. Ideally, chose flat calm water so the waterline doesn’t keep moving. Also, choose water depth that you can kneel in, to better steady the camera, but where your dog is swimming so they aren\u2019t kicking up sand or muck to make the water murky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ll need to make sure your dog is close to the camera or he’ll appear as a dot way off into the distance. Then use a wide aperture and continuous shooting mode, which will help increase the chances of capturing a ‘keeper’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also called a double exposure, this is where you merging the exposures of two photographs into one. Think of this as a photo overlay, which adds new details or interest to the first photo. So for example, your dog against a light coloured wall and a photo of a tree in front of a blown out sky. When overlaid elements of the tree will be seen in the dog. A silhouette can work well for the photo of your dog which lights or texture are then overlaid. For the second photo look for interesting edges that are going to appear, textures that will add depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My top tip is to use two photographs where the background is of similar brightness. This makes merging the two photographs relatively simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can do this when processing the photographs after the session. Alternatively, many digital cameras have a multiple exposure function in camera – with these you can do the compose and capture directly in camera! You can use two photographs you already have or one storage photo and superimpose this on the viewfinder, so you see exactly how the finished picture looks. This is great for fine-tuning where the image sits and create stunning photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a variation on multiple exposure photography, which photographs the same scene but with a range of exposures. For example, you capture the same scene but in dim, moderate, and bright light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"creative](\"https:\/\/puppytales.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/puppytalesphotography_olympus-photos-155.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTaking Photos from a Unique Perspective<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n#2: Silhouette<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTaking Silhouette Photographs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n#3: Above and Below the Surface of Water<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nTaking Above & Below Photos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n#4: Multiple Exposures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n#5: High Dynamic Range (HDR)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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