photograph guide
When you are looking through your photographs or working to take new ones especially, there are a few things that may well help to understand in order to get the best art possible.
- Good lighting – is your pet well lit? it is overlit? or too dark?… consider these things
- Can you see the fur? – clear definition is very helpful
- Photograph taken at the pets eye level – most of the photos we take of our pets are standing so looking down on them, these don´t translate well to art, so get down to their level
- Are they a good distance from the camera – by that I mean do they fill the frame without having to zoom in on the photo, or conversely they aren´t a blip 100feet away in a field.
good photograph examples
Both of the below images are crisp and clear as you can see, lighting is good, all parts are in focus and they are from the pets eye level, both of these would make excellent reference images.
not so good photograph examples
The images below show examples of more challenging images, whether it be out of focus, or too dark, too far away or from a strange angle, none alone would be suitable for reference images.
If you are struggling to find a great photo, do get in touch and send through what you have and we can have a chat about it.
pets that are no longer with us
If you are looking to commission a piece for a pet that has passed away I appreciate you may be working with limited photographs, my suggestion is send through what you have.
With that I can then look through with you and determine if it will be possible to create a piece from the images you have, unfortunately it isn’t always possible but if I feel it is, I will do my best for you.
Multiple pets
If you have 2 dogs and a cat and you want them in a single piece of art, don’t worry you haven’t got to try to get them all in a single image, I wouldn’t do that to you!
As long as you have great photos of each of them its usually quite possible to create a combination that works perfectly.