Impression of The Month: Pets and Photography
A job like photography can be full of variety and therefore challenges. A photographer, in any field of photography, has at his disposal countless subjects and motifs, of course according to the purpose of their photography, i.e. their purpose and use value. It's exciting to play and combine them, isn't it? And that's exactly how one shooting day was, recorded in the diary of a photographer. ☺️
Photographing furniture for pets, a new line of pets programs, sounds interesting at first, especially for lovers of four-legged friends. What does that furniture look like, what materials are they made of, what are their shapes and colors, these are all questions that initially interest us. For a specialist photographer for product photography may not be so exciting, until a new element is included in the photographic composition. With the advent of furniture models, product photography has been taken to a whole new level – let the game begin!
The main star of that June shooting day was Boris the cat. His role to showcase and present comfortable pet beds was a real challenge to photograph. The animal itself can be quite unpredictable and as such can create unexpected situations. Similar to photographing children, pets require absolute attention and speed, they can move, turn, walk away in an instant. Fortunately, Boris the cat was as perfect an example as you could wish for to work with – he spent the whole time in absolute silence in his transporter from the beginning to the end of the shooting time, while at the very moment of posing he was just in photo mode, as if he was thinking and absorbing the whole time what's going on in studio – my luck as a photographer, shooting with him went quickly and smoothly, of course with the presence of the owner and his help with Boris' animation. I believe that with his help Softnest products will find a good response, that is his most important role and the point of his involvement as a model. ☺️ Although I'm a bigger dog lover, I have to admit that Boris deserves all praise as well as a place in advertising photography.
While Boris the cat posed and created his portrait on the cozy Softnest beds, the two sweets stayed at home to wait. Tara and Meda, German Shepherds who have forever taken a place in my hearts. Playing, walking, brushing - everything is fun with them, priceless time spent. It's a real challenge to create portraits of them, a real little experiment, because Tara is an unprecedented mischievous dog, she doesn't hold the place at all, and Meda doesn't really like to be photographed, although he finds it interesting when he sees a powerful device like the Canon 5D Mark IV, it intrigues him somehow, then he stops, if only for a second. ☺️ Every moment must be used like this, quickly and with a lot of attention, because our best friends can sometimes be elusive – those wonderful silly creatures of ours – we should let them create their own portraits.❤️
