How does Dogbreath photography get that style of photography? Would love to know how to aceive the look of her dog photos...

rjrbigdog Loc: New York

Would love to know how to aceive the look of her dog photos

hlmichel Loc: New Hope, Minnesota

Looks like great lighting, shooting from the dogs' level, good rapport with the dogs & shooting at a wide aperture.

Some looked like minimal processing while some looked almost HDR.

And it doesn't hurt that she seems to absolutely love dogs.

Never heard of her until now, but having just seen a picture of her--I'd love to photograph her.

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

rjrbigdog wrote:

Would love to know how to aceive the look of her dog photos

looking at a bunch of her photos on google it looks like a high percentage of them were taken with a wide angle lens at very close quarters.

gives them that unique perspective.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

If you visit the blog and the 'about' portions of the site, you'll see a fair amount of behind the scenes shots.

Math78 Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

CHG_CANON wrote:

If you visit the blog and the 'about' portions of the site, you'll see a fair amount of behind the scenes shots.

She has the owners actively involved in posing the dogs.

rjrbigdog Loc: New York

I'm talking about the pictures, not how she poses the dogs. They do look HDR kinda. The lighting, the details of the dogs and colors are so bright. It's a great look.

hlmichel Loc: New Hope, Minnesota

rjrbigdog wrote:

I'm talking about the pictures, not how she poses the dogs. They do look HDR kinda. The lighting, the details of the dogs and colors are so bright. It's a great look.

From looking at her site, a few of them do look HDR...ish. You can achieve a pseudo-HDR effect with the Shadow/Highlight adjustment in Photoshop. You can individually brighten/saturate colors in Lightroom and Photoshop.

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

Good grief, guys, will someone please post a link?!!!
Never mind, here it is: :)
http://dogbreathphoto.com/

I browsed through the gallery yesterday and was smiling all the time. Great stuff.

From her site she started with landscape, architectural and portrait photography and apparently learned those very well!

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

rjrbigdog wrote:

Would love to know how to aceive the look of her dog photos

Wow, she is amazing, thanks for bringing this thread up.
Here is a guest Blog she did for Scott Kelby in which she talks about how she does what she does.

http://scottkelby.com/2015/its-guest-blog-wednesday-featuring-kaylee-greer/

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Jaackil wrote:

Wow, she is amazing, thanks for bringing this thread up.
Here is a guest Blog she did for Scott Kelby in which she talks about how she does what she does.

http://scottkelby.com/2015/its-guest-blog-wednesday-featuring-kaylee-greer/

Scroll down to the before and after sliders in the guest blog post. She doesn't talk about tools or technique on post processing, but you can see there's extensive work. I'd be interested in how she creates the flash allusion. All the behind the scenes shots show a wide angle lens and the images tend to have a wide aperture and shallow depth of field. I would have said a strong flash to overpower daylight on several shots, but none of the images show a flash nor any additional lighting.

br3kes Loc: Tarentum PA

Checked out both of the links (thanks, guys!), and they where amazing! Made my day!

JPL

rjrbigdog wrote:

Would love to know how to aceive the look of her dog photos

It is very easy. She has a bachelor degree in photography from University of Tampa, Florida. And also some more education in graphic design etc.
So she is a real pro who knows what she is doing. Not the kind of pro who thinks he/she is a pro because they have managed to sell a picture once.

Aside from that, it looks as she is using very wide and sharp lenses most of the time. She is using underwater housing sometimes, she is using light and she is probably using many other things she learned when she decided to become a real pro photographer and she is post processing of course. Real pros can never get it right in camera as some of the pros here are so good at :-D

OddJobber Loc: Portland, OR

CHG_CANON wrote:

I would have said a strong flash to overpower daylight on several shots, but none of the images show a flash nor any additional lighting.

I can't find it now, but there is one behind the scenes picture where an assistant is holding an off camera light with what looks to be a softbox.

Jaackil Loc: Massachusetts

JPL wrote:

It is very easy. She has a bachelor degree in pho... (show quote)

You are absolutely right she has studied and mastered her craft but you left out one very important thing she also has and that is Passion. She is passionate about what she is doing and her love for her work and subjects. That is what makes her a true artist

TheDman Loc: USA

CHG_CANON wrote:

Scroll down to the before and after sliders in the guest blog post. She doesn't talk about tools or technique on post processing, but you can see there's extensive work. I'd be interested in how she creates the flash allusion. All the behind the scenes shots show a wide angle lens and the images tend to have a wide aperture and shallow depth of field. I would have said a strong flash to overpower daylight on several shots, but none of the images show a flash nor any additional lighting.

There's no illusion; you can tell by the dogs' eyes that she's often using an off-camera umbrella.