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Pet Photography Project 52: 7 – Print
Print I think I love this topic! Although it has to be said that taking a photograph of a printed work of your pet and then trying to get said pet in the photograph is a little harder than you might expect. As a Photographer who actively encourages people to print...
Pet Photography Project 52: 6 – Wide Open
Wide Open Wide Open could have meant landscapes, it could have meant apertures. For us its a whole lot of things. It is the sense of adventure that our two have; lying on their backs on the mat waiting for the other to jump on them and wrestle, it is running around...
Currently
The Northland/Auckland/Waikato Anniversary Weekend edition. The lazy edition. One of us is feet up on the couch beside the fan, with a puppy snuggled in beside me snoring, thinking about the Shepherds Pie I am going to make for dinner even though its hot, and where...
Pet Photography Project 52: 5 – Fitness
Fitness A couple of weeks ago we did a theme of "A Day in the Life" where you would have seen that Nixie and Django love racing around the park in the morning and then sleeping all afternoon. This combined with bush walks and swimming (thats Nix, not Dj, he won't go...
Pet Photography Project 52: 4 – Frame It
Frame It. Framing a subject in a photograph is a technique where by you draw attention to it - by blocking other parts of the image. To frame a subject, you can use a person, colour, a natural object, leading lines or light. In adding a 'frame' you need to be careful...
Pet Photography Project 52: 3 – Day in the Life Of
A Day in the Life Of Our topic this week is excellent - a day in the life of Nixie Lix. Being the middle of summer here in New Zealand, most of the action in our house happens before lunch. As the sun hits the middle of the sky, we have temperatures of 28-30 degrees...
Pet Photography Project 52: 2 – January
What January Means To Us ... This is such a great theme for the second week of the Beautiful Beasties Project 52! Whilst the Northern Hemisphere is freezing, I'm sunburned and Nixie Lix and Django are running around super early in the morning before breakfast and then...
New Zealand Pet Photography with Summer Noelle
This morning I had a lovely conversation with Noelle McCarthly on her Radio New Zealand National show "Summer Noelle". Whilst I swooned over her accent, and slightly regretted that second cup of coffee, it was lovely to talk to someone about this business we call Pet...
Saying Hello
I shared my 2015 Introductions post so now I would love it if the people that read my blog introduced themselves as well, and shared a photo of the creatures that round out your family. I'm looking forward to getting to know a few more of you! So tell me ... 1. where...
Best of 2014
2014 was a huge year for me - full of new experiences and learning and meeting the most amazing people. Looking through my Lightroom library, I took (or rather kept) 4148 personal photographs and 4848 client images and these images that follow are the ones that I have...
Project 52: 1 – Introductions
And here begins my first post for 2015 - aptly named Intoduction. An introduction is a wonderful way to start both the new year and the Beautiful Beasties Pet Photography Project 52. We can start with me briefly, I'm Tara and I live in the Waikato Region on the North...
Cherry and Jess
I’ve never met a dog as relaxed as Cherry - so much so that she feel asleep before I would have called our session over! With paws that smell like pumpkins, Cherry is known for her cuddles and her love for her Mom comes shining through in the photographs we made. She...
Currently.
This morning Miss Nixie Lix has been helping me test lighting setups and some backdrops in my studio. Calling it my studio is really a stretch - its actually a small bedroom in our house, an office, but calling it my studio sounds all creative like and almost...
Clean Sheet Sunday
In our house, when everything is silent, that's bad. It means someone (Django Mako Lix) is up to something. Yes this face is the face of a terror! Today there was silence. I was working in the studio when I realised I had heard nothing for a while so I went looking to...
Project 52: Catch Lights
This weeks prompt is Catchlights. Catchlights are when a light source creates a wonderful twinkle in the eye. Catchlights can be natural or artificial, round or square, bright or hardly noticeable. They give the eye dimension and depth. But what happens to the eye...
Project 52: 45 Water
When I saw the title of this weeks theme, well normally I would have thought "excellent, we SO have this covered!" Nixie Lix is an American Bulldog, Greyhound X and she is an absolute water baby! I often say that she would swim in a teacup if she could fit her butt...
Project 52: 44 Halloween
Halloween isn't the biggest of holidays here in New Zealand in fact it is little more than an excuse for stores to stock all manner of costumes and for kids to cruise around the streets asking for lollies. At our house this year, I'll be putting up a sign - not...
Question and Answer: Strapless?!
Q: I notice when you are photographing, you don't have a strap on your camera. Aren't you worried? Well the short answer to this is ... only a little!! 99% of the time I have my camera in my hand as I like to be as ready as possible for any photograph that might...