Megan with Paws and Claws photography, I’m gonna talk to you now about posing your pet and
positioning yourself. Try different poses for your pet to show their true personality, each time
you try a new pose, you wanna remember to recheck your lighting and the camera position. Try
your pet sitting, standing, laying down, or even in someone’s arms, each pose will provide a
slightly different look giving you a selection of portraits to choose from. To protect your camera,
wrap the strap around your wrist like this, this way, if you slip and your outside, the camera
never falls to the ground. Now to prevent camera shake while taking horizontal pictures, you
wanna keep your arms against your body to steady the camera, with your left hand, support and
focus the camera and your right forefinger to press the shutter. Now for vertical pictures, support
the camera in either your right or left hand, keep that elbow against your body to steady the
camera, and use your free hand to press the shutter. Possibly, you might consider using a tripod,
such as this one. A tripod, studies, steadies the camera for you, allowing your arm and hands to
be free. We see all pets from our eye level, a more appealing picture of your pet will be to
position yourself on their eye level or to bring your pet up to your eye level. You can do this by
either laying on the floor or by placing your pet in a chair or a table such as this one. Last but not
least, you always want to remember to get in as close as you can and fill the whole frame with
your pet.
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