Incorporating your pet into your family photos is a great way to capture your furry friend's personality, and it can make for some truly memorable shots. Here are a few great tips on how to make your photo shoot with Fido a success
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There’s just something about documenting the still image of a person. When I traveled to Nicaragua with my friend Andy as a documentary photographer for his medical and dental humanitarian outreach, I really found myself falling for portraiture. The beautiful and rugged and worn and stoic and smiling faces of the Nicaraguan people were stunning subjects for my new 50mm Canon lens. In one particular image, the face of a woman named Ursula, blinded as a result of parasitic infection, had such an impact on me that it’s still one of my favorite images to this day. I returned from that trip and asked every person I could convince to let me take their portrait. It was a fun and fascinating project I plan to repeat in short order.
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I was looking through my Facebook memories yesterday and a photo popped up that kind of took me aback. Someone had asked me to take their portrait, and while I didn't feel qualified, they insisted, and so I said I'd do my best. So I strung up a very wrinkled white sheet, pulled out some construction work lights, and used whatever little very basic, consumer-level camera I had at the time to take what I knew were quite mediocre photos.
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