Love Your Dog Pictures: How to Photograph Your Pet with Any Camera [Paperback]

Jenni Bidner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2006

• Millions of dog owners need this book

• Easy-to-use advice from a pro photographer and dog lover!

• Great examples from ten different photographers for a variety of styles

• Start getting better pictures right away



More than 115 million dogs are kept as pets in the U.S. alone—and there’s hardly a decent photo of any of them. Out of focus when Fido moves. Red-eye from Barkley’s too-curious stare. Fuzzy where Rover breathed on the lens. Just awful. But now dog owners everywhere can learn how to take better pictures of their pets, posed or candid, inside or outside, in action or resting, with family members, dog friends, or alone. Author Jenni Bidner, a professional photographer and rescue-dog owner/trainer, covers photography basics like equipment, exposure, and composition, then explains just how to capture the charm, personality, and good looks of any dog. Special tips on photographing puppies, black dogs and white dogs, and show dogs, plus ideas on making money as a pet photographer, creating scrapbooks and cards, and sending digital dogs over the Web make this book as essential as paper training.

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About the Author

Jenni Bidner is the author of many books on photography, including the best-selling Lighting Cookbook (35,000 copies sold). The former editor of Petersen’s Photographic, Canon Insight, and other magazines, she lives with her two search-and-rescue dogs outside Chicago.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Amphoto Books (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823072282
• ISBN-13: 978-0823072286
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,436,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars perfect handbook for the family photographer, September 4, 2006

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Eveline "Eveline" (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Your Dog Pictures: How to Photograph Your Pet with Any Camera (Paperback)

This book is not about becoming a professional dog photographer but it is intended for the family photographer who wants to know how to take the best pictures of their dog or their family's dog. Pictures they can hang on the wall later on or put in scrapbooks. It will help you create images of your dog that will catch the dog's true spirit.

It does not matter if you have a cheap film camera or an expensive digital SLR camera, the tips and techniques in this book will work for any camera. Throughout the different chapters the text is accompanied by famous dog quotes every now and then and along with all the tips and techniques are 305 illustrations in total (only ten in b/w) that clearly show you before and after situations and different camera setups and their resulting photographs.

In the first chapters you'll get familiar with all the technical stuff like equipment and exposure, then you'll move on to more practical techniques like lightning, composition and taking great action shots, posing and portraits. The last part explains in short chapters how to digitize your film photographs, how to enhance your digital pictures and how to
turn them into scrapbook pages. In the appendix you'll get to meet all the dogs that were models for the illustrations throughout this book.

With its 144 pages this book is a definite handbook for beginning photographers who want to know everything about taking beautiful photographs of their beloved dogs. If you are looking for more professional dog photography you might be better off with Creative Canine Photography. This book, Love Your Dog Pictures, though handles everything you ever needed to know about dog photography and with a creative mind I'm sure you can be just as well a professional dog photographer. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to improve their photographing skills and who wants to catch their dog's real personality on image.

- reviewed by Eveline for Euro-Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for family pet owner to improve their snapshots, July 12, 2008

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M. ANNE (california) - See all my reviews

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As the previous review indicates, this book is aimed at the person who is not a photographer but rather the loving pet owner who wants better photos of their dog. The book is full of clear examples that will help get a better photo of your dog. The author has an easy writing style and her instructions are easy to incorporate into photographing. After reading this book, any dog lover should be able to get pictures that will be more individual and representative of their dog. Definitely for the beginning/snapshot photographer who wants pictures that will actually look like their dog without distortion, and add some creativity in their photos.

3.0 out of 5 stars I love my dog pictures either way, November 30, 2010

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This review is from: Love Your Dog Pictures: How to Photograph Your Pet with Any Camera (Paperback)

I am surrounded by K9s at my home. I love to photograph them and have 1000s of pictures of each of them. Being a novice photographer, I bought this book looking for ideas of how to take better photos. I love the pictures in it, and it did give some good tips on how to take better pictures. I feel some of the tips would work great if you have a dog trained well to do what you told him to do. Personally, I feel the best pictures are the ones of dogs doing what dogs do best - just being dogs! I'm happy with the book and feel it was worth the purchase just to have as a reference.