Unleashed Education Blog

By Charlotte Reeves

Struggling to nail focus on fast-moving dogs? And what do you do if the animal eye detection and tracking isn't working for you? ...

I write my roundup of 2024 from a little apartment in Paris looking out over bustling streets shimmering with lights reflecting on the wet concrete an...

Are you ready to dive into the adorable world of puppy photography?

We host regular Lounge calls in our Premium Membership, focusing on a particular ...

What a year! We kicked things off by filming content for Empower, the third course in our Unleashed Challenges series, finishing just before I took a ...

By Charlotte Reeves

This "speed edit" is sped up around 40x from the full 43 minute editing tutorial, which is available in our Unleashed Education P...

With Charlotte Reeves

Polona was the winner of the December 2022 Edit My Photo challenge in the Unleashed Education community.

As the winner of the ...

Congratulations to all our winners, all the challengers who received highly commended portfolios, and to those who completed all 12 challenges too! 🎉

It's time to party! Our fun-loving furry friends spend so much of their time engaging in play. Most dogs are always up for a game and capturing these ...

We've reached the penultimate challenge of Embark 2024 and this one is called Splash!

There's just something about playing in the water that screams ...

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

Wow you are in for a visual treat in this post. Today we held the Emerge Award ceremony and we can now share all of the winners.

For the past six mon...

We've reached the final challenge of our Emerge course and as with all the Unleashed Challenges, we're ending with a fun one, Shake!

Shaking off wate...

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...

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,...

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

It seems like only yesterday that we began the first Empower course, our third and final Unleashed Challenge series.

With the students having already...

What’s better than one dog? Two, of course! For the tenth challenge of Emerge, we're looking for perfect portraits of two dogs.

Dogs are social creat...

It's time for the final challenge of Empower and as always, we finish off with a fun action challenge, Jump!

For the Jump! challenge, we were looking...

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

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 op...

Emerge challenge number nine is called Mirror Image. Capturing an image with a full reflection is so much fun to do. You can use a mirror image in so ...

The Soul Searcher or puppy dog eyes style of shot can be a great way to introduce variety into your session, especially if you usually shoot from a ve...

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...

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...