Set Up

When we photograph the dogs ready for adoption at the Humane Society I bring a portable studio set up with me and  set it up in a ​corner of the large conference/teaching/event space at the facility. The set up looks like this. Two speed lights in reflector umbrellas in front and one as a backlight. A black background and other props. I shoot tethered to my laptop (which you can almost see in the bottom right of the photo) so I can see the photos large on the computer screen rather than the back of the camera.

That setup works to get photographs like these.​

Bailey

Bailey is probably old, has cataracts the size of dinner plates and, as near as we could tell, is as deaf as a stone.​  But...    he is so incredibly sweet and loving and happy you just want to be his pal.  He sits there next to you and smiles, he's up and active and investigating everything. He's just ... a neat dog.

Murals

I really enjoy seeing murals on the walls of buildings in downtown areas. Our downtown has a few and these photos are from one of the newest. The mural is painted on the back of a building that used to be a gas station and now lives as a restaurant. ​

The artist is really talented (in my opinion) and the mural always catches my eye and causes me to pause when I see it. I was unable to capture the entire scene in one photograph because of the limits of the lens I had with me but I plan to go back one day with a wide angle lens and give it another try.​

Giving directions

This is Sue (on the right) giving last minute directions to one of the models who participated in Monda​y's photoshoot.

​"OK, when the old guy says 'action' you siti up straight and look right at the camera and give it your best 'please adopt me' look."

And just to prove Sue's influence and expertise as a director here are a few examples.​

Puppy Lesson

​This week we attempted to photograph a few puppies... The operative word being 'attempted' as I wasn't quite prepared for the mayhem in we would encounter in the 'puppy room'.                                                                            

Normally we set up a portable studio inside the large meeting and training room and bring the dogs we photograph in from the kennels one at a time, but for the puppies we went to the room where they were being 'socialized'.  Translate 'socialized' as an unruly mob of youngsters running around getting to know each other and investigating anything or anybody that gets in the area.​

We didn't get any photos we could use on the website but did have a lot of fun.​