Unleashed Education Blog

Shooting after the sun goes down is what the penultimate challenge of our Empower course is all about.

Heading out during twilight or later presents ...

How we love a background brimming with colourful, sparkly bokeh! These bubbles of light create a beautiful effect and add interest and life to a soft,...

Working with natural light, especially on a bright sunny day can be challenging at times. However, the resulting warm and engaging portraits created f...

What’s better than one dog? Two, of course! Dogs are social creatures and many dog owners have more than one, so at some point, pet photographers will...

The Product Placement challenge is the fourth and final challenge of Empower where we are joined by special guest instructors. Who better to lead this...

Capturing an image with a full reflection is so much fun to do. You can use a mirror image in so many ways that enhance an image and add a little touc...

Dog photos are most successful when they're engaging, when they show the personality of the dog and make you feel like you're right there with them wh...

For our 9th challenge of Empower, we were joined by special guest instructor An Di Prima of The Faithful Hound Photography. Andi is an accomplished po...

Featuring flying ears, long flapping tongues, and crazy eyes, these shots are hilarious and always front runners with dog lovers. A must to include in...

When we were setting the Empower briefs, we immediately had a multi-dog challenge in mind, building on the skills we taught for the Double Trouble cha...

Photos of dogs can usually be classified into one of two main categories - portrait, where the dog is still, or action, where the dog is doing somethi...

For many of us pet ownership is a big part of our modern urbanised life. It's become commonplace to see pets out and about in cities and suburbs. Inco...

Using off camera flash has become very popular in the pet photography space, thanks largely to the popularity of Dog Breath Photography’s vibrant wide...

We're up to challenge number seven of Emerge, Silhouetto. It's another of our personal favourites and it seems we're not alone! Our challengers create...

We're halfway through Embark already, can you believe it! So for this challenge, it's time to do a little soul searching.

This style of shot can be a...

Attempting to represent our three-dimensional world through a two-dimensional medium such as a photograph is no easy task, but that’s the challenge we...

Since our pets are such unique looking creatures, they will always have particular features that their owners love.

You must have heard people talk a...

One technique that works wonders for dogs who tend to wander around is putting them up on something.

In natural areas, fallen logs make great platfor...

Challenge number five in Empower is Monolicious, we asked challengers to create images in black and white or other monochromatic styles, like sepia or...

Panning is the technique of following the motion of something as it moves from side to side across the scene in front of you. Using a super fast shutt...

Shooting landscapes was an early photographic love for both Craig and Charlotte!

When photographing your canine friends these days, there's a real st...