Unleashed Education Blog

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...

One dog photography technique that works wonders for dogs who tend to wander is putting them up on something. Fallen logs, benches, rocks or steps all...

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...

We're up to challenge number seven of Emerge, Silhouetto. Silhouettes eliminate textural detail and black out facial expressions, relying instead on t...

Shooting landscapes was an early photographic love for both of us, even when photographing our canine friends these days, there's a real storytelling ...

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...

Since our pets are such unique looking creatures, they will always have particular features that their owners love. We’re sure you’ve heard clients ta...

For the Composition 101 challenge in Embark, we're looking at a couple of the basic rules of composition. Centring and symmetry. Centring feels very n...

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...

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...

What if we told you there was one tiny little thing that you could do right now that will dramatically change your dog photography mages forever. This...

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...

They say a home is just a house without a dog. Those of us with dogs know this very well, I bet you can’t wait to get home for those joy filled cuddle...

For the first challenge in our Embark course, we tasked our challengers to find areas of bold colour. We wanted to start with something simple and fun...

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