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Does It Really Take Luck to Get Great Dog Portraits?

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Does it take loads of luck to capture epic portraits of your dog? Or is it more akin to skill? First, what is luck?Luck is defined as success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions. Then what is skill?Skill is the ability to use one’s knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance.  In a sense, they are on opposing sides, nearly opposites to each other. Pure luck shows up as gambling, while pure skill lands in the game of chess. The rest of the encounters throughout our lives land somewhere on the gradient. (Google […]

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From Straight to Curved: Playing with Lines in Dog Photography

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Ever have one of those photography themes where you can’t think of a jazzy blog title?– Get in Line– On Line– On the Line– Lining Up– In the Lines Hmm… each feels a bit vague for the way a line can be a quintessential part of photography. Commonly found as a rule of composition in leading lines, these types of lines lead the eye of the viewer into & around the scene of the image, frequently landing on the subject. Done correctly they have huge impact, done poorly your viewer will miss the subject in your image or miss where

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5 Tips to Enhance Your Composition with Frames

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Enhance your dog photography composition with these framing tips! First off, what is framing?  Framing, aka frame within a frame, is a method of composition that uses various elements in scene to create a frame around your subject. This creates a sense of depth and draws your viewer’s eye KA-POW right to the subject of your image! Sure you could go willy nilly and frame every subject but the best practice is to ask: Does this image benefit from having a frame around the subject? Does it make the composition stronger? If not, then pass on adding the frame.  Onward!

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From the blog ring archive: Mastering the Art of Filling the Frame

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Fill the frame is a classic rule of composition that takes your subject and uses them to fill the frame of image from edge to edge. Utilized its a grand way to show off eyes, or detail elements in the manner of paws, tails, and bums.  The 20mm lens often ends up employing fill the frame from treat loving pups. Sporting a minimum focus distance of 10.9″, this lens allows dogs to get MEGA close. As in close enough to lick the lens. Or boop it with their noses. (This lens out of all tends to have the most spit and

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Mastering Leading Lines in Dog Photography

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About A Dog Photography – Minnesota dog photographer |  52 Weeks is a blog circle with a theme for every week (which means we all link to each other, links are found at the end of the post). Leading lines, the well known & versed “rule” of composition where a line leads the viewer into the scene to the subject. The lines can be literal lines – roads, paths, fences, etc – man made or organic. They can even be lines that don’t exist – implied leading lines. (Implied leading lines often happen with eyes – we look the direction the

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