Helpful Posts: Tiny puppies are even more difficult to photograph than adult dogs...
Small puppies are just that: smallI order to get eye level with a puppy, you need to get very low or place the puppy on an elevated platform like a table or chair.
Problem with doing that is that a puppy can be very active and can easily fall off the elevated platform and hurt itself. That is true, even if you have a helper.
Puppies run all over the placeand it is pretty hard to follow them with a camera.
I wanted to photograph Cookie's puppies and my wife wasn't around to help. So I quickly fabricated a Puppy Studio by cutting the front from a cardboard Box and it worked quite well. The box restricted the puppy's movements and the six-inch front lip prevented the pup from falling or running out of the "studio".
I covered the box with a teal fleece...
I used a softbox to camera left and bounced a Canon 600ex RT modified with a Joe Demb Flash Diffuser Pro off the ceiling...
Not bad for a one-man show... I used a Canon 7D2 with a 17-55mm f/2.8 IS lens at 55mm. ISO 320, f/4 at 1/60 second...
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Thread: Puppy Photography
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7th July 2017, 04:32 AM #1
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Puppy Photography
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7th July 2017, 05:32 AM #2
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Re: Puppy Photography
Very nice shot--inventive setup!
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7th July 2017, 07:28 AM #3
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Re: Puppy Photography
Nicely done on image and set up.
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7th July 2017, 03:37 PM #4
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Re: Puppy Photography
Thanks for the tutorial. It is nice to know as it might one day apply to a granddaughter's pet one day...
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7th July 2017, 07:10 PM #5
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Rest of the Litter
Here are the rest of Cookies Puppies...
The one pictured above is Macaroon.
This one is Brownie...
Lorna Doone...
Oreo...
and Snickerdoodle...
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7th July 2017, 07:46 PM #6
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Re: Rest of the Litter
A very cute set of puppies with a well thought out studio arrangement. Well captured Richard.
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7th July 2017, 08:06 PM #7
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Re: Rest of the Litter
Very clever way to address the practicality of photographing the young ones!
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7th July 2017, 11:21 PM #8
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Re: Rest of the Litter
It is hard to believe that all these puppies came from the same mom
Looking at them, there is a definite possibility that the father of the top two and the father of the bottom three were not the same dogs
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