Comments on: Useful Photography Tips For Shooting Pets

By: Robert Zembrzycki

Robert Zembrzycki — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:04:00 +0000

I’m actually building a business around pet photography – http://www.psiefoty.pl – this whole thing has been started by a friend of mine, and now we both do it and it’s pretty awesome. The blog is in polish, unfortunately, but we are working on english version under a different adress aswell ;)

By: Helmut Steiner

Helmut Steiner — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:21:00 +0000

I hate those small rats they tend to call dogs these days…

By: Robert Kent

Robert Kent — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:28:00 +0000

I’m starting to develop my business right now, and a big portion of my current work is pet photography. I have yet to start using costumes…but since Halloween is upon us, perhaps I should venture in that direction!

By: Louis van Zyl

Louis van Zyl — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:48:00 +0000

Whoo hooo. Very funny, I laughed until my tummy hurt.

Seems like it is more about the costumes than dogs? I would like to see more on how to light dogs… what styles of lighting suits different dog facial structure? Problem dogs, dogs on outdoor shoots and dog posing.

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:31:00 +0000

Seeing as Julie Johnson hasn’t done this (she may have purchased a license) …..

The music in this video is bought to you by the fantastic musician Kevin MacLeod of http://incompetech.com who selflessly and generously allows us the use of his music with no royalty fees under a “CC-attrib” license.

“Revival”, ISRC: US-UAN-11-00476, by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/“

By: Dennis Covey

Dennis Covey — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Petco has their own video people on set, and we’ll be doing their spring 2012 line in November, so we should see another video in early spring. There’s another video link on my home page from a previous shoot. denniscovey.com. Too much fun. Interestingly my dogs would never dress up at all. They would look at the other dogs like they were crazy. : )

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:11:00 +0000

Ha that’s awesome Dennis! Any plans on making more videos? Seeing pets in ridiculous outfits is pretty entertaining and I think I’ve sold a friend of mine into buying one of those outfits for Halloween from this video ha

By: Dennis Covey

Dennis Covey — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:48:00 +0000

I saw the first video on the main page and proceeded to the full story, thinking, “oh, this is what I do this should be interesting,” then seeing the Petco video on the full page, it WAS me. I have been photographing dogs in outfits, sweaters and costumes for over 15 years. I also photograph babies dressed up as animals for the halloween costume industry. I love what I do and I always have a great time, but believe me babies and animals are not easy subjects. I feel truly blessed to continue having such joy in what I do and to make a living doing it. I also photograph children to adult costumes for several companies that are wholesale to retailers such as Walmart, Target, KMart and Party City, so it is playtime all the time at the studio, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m shooting dogs and babies dressed up as each other this coming week for Animal Planet. Rawr!! Grrrrr! : )

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:58:00 +0000

Sorry Cody, I didn’t mean for the post to come across condescending. I personally feel like people who dress their children up and set them next to crazy props to be a bit strange as well. I think the ridiculousness of the 2nd video make a stronger impression than the good tips from the first.

By: Corey Melton

Corey Melton — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:12:00 +0000

Youre right though cody, it’s weird when we dress up bitches of any species and shoot them. but there are degrees of weirdness. this one is as weird as I can imagine. its right along side people that light and shoot action figures on their bedroom dressers. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! I agree with Patrick, the final images look great :)