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Keep up to date with all the latest free resources from Unleashed Education on the blog. This is where you'll find our Editing Toolbox videos, speed edits and pet photography tips!
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Struggling to make your dog photos stand out? Unleashing Composition is a free 28-page guide packed with easy-to-follow composition tips that will instantly improve your images. Whether your shots feel a little uninspired or you just want to add more variety to your portfolio, this guide will help you frame, balance, and compose your images with confidence.
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Grab the free guide!Behind the Scenes Videos
Fun videos showing what goes on behind the scenes at real pet photography sessions!
Behind the Scenes with Ben and Juniper
With Charlotte Reeves
Just a fun little "behind the scenes" peek into what goes on at a dog photography session at the beach with two gorgeous pups - Ben the Border Collie and Juniper the Australian Shepherd.
Taking Amazing Pet Portraits in Bad Weather
With Craig Turner-Bullock
The weather can play havoc with our schedules sometimes, especially when clients expect sun-drenched, backlit, bright and vibrant images. But sometimes, it's good to break the mould and push your creativity in less than ideal circumstances.
Photographing a Camera Shy Dog
With Charlotte Reeves
This behind the scenes video covers the process Charlotte uses for working with a dog that has an aversion to cameras, to help them overcome their fear and see it as a positive instead!
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Free Pet Photography Guides
In-depth, value-packed pet photography guides direct from the blog.
7 Steps to Capturing Amazing "Run to Me" Dog Action Photos
By Charlotte Reeves
Going beyond just camera settings, these steps are all essential pieces of the puzzle when shooting these awesome "run to me" style action shots, helping you create that one perfect photo to wow your audience!
13 Elements of Composition for Pet Photographers
By Charlotte Reeves
Taking your photography up a notch means understanding and using some common, but often overlooked, elements of composition. These tips range from the classic rule of thirds to the more obscure.
The Ultimate Guide to Back Button Focus for Pet Photographers
By Charlotte Reeves
Though not a magical way of getting all your images in perfect focus, using the back button to focus is a technique with many advantages specifically for pet photographers.
How to Train Your Dog Model in 5 Easy Steps
By Charlotte Reeves
These 5 essential training tips will get you off on the correct foot when starting fresh with a new muse, or back on track with photographing your own dogs!
8 Tips for Capturing Creative Cat Photos
By Charlotte Reeves
Discover my best tips for successfully capturing amazing shots of cats, working with their individual traits to capture beautiful images focusing on their inherent beauty and unique personalities.
10 Essential Tips for Beautiful Black Dogs
By Charlotte Reeves
You'll be capturing gorgeous shots of black dogs in no time with these ten handy tips, focusing on lighting, choosing backgrounds and dealing with colour casts.
12 Tips for Working with Pets and their People
By Charlotte Reeves
There will come a time when you need to photograph your furry subject's humans - knowing what to say, how to pose and what settings to use is vital info that you won't find anywhere else.
7 Tips for Photographing Puppies
By Charlotte Reeves
As tricky as it can be to obtain great images of dogs, capturing awesome shots of puppies is often even more challenging. Here are my top 7 tips to help you when photographing puppies!
9 Ways to Rock Your Urban Dog Photography Sessions
By Charlotte Reeves
I take you through super helpful tips for working in busy locations, finding good places to shoot, working with reduced and complex lighting and minimising clutter and distractions.
Top 8 Tips for Getting Perfect Insta Worthy Pet Pics Everytime
By Craig Turner-Bullock
With most households being home to at least one pet, it’s unsurprising to see the rising popularity of Instagram accounts made specifically for our little friends. Craig has some great tips for taking insta-worthy shots of your pet!
The Best Lens for Outdoor Natural Light Dog Photography
By Charlotte Reeves
Instead of asking "What's the best lens for dog photography?" - instead consider the question - "What's the MOST USEFUL lens for dog photography?"
5 Essential Items for Pet Photographers
By Charlotte Reeves
Pet photography is a super specialised field and with that comes specialised equipment and tools of the trade. Find out the five things I just couldn't live without as a professional pet photographer.
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Free Editing Guides
Free guides focusing on developing your pet photography editing skills.
10 Most Common Pet Photography Editing Mistakes
By Charlotte Reeves
After many years of reviewing my student's images during portfolio reviews and critiques, I decided to share the top 10 mistakes I see and also how to fix them.
10 Tips for Setting Perfect White Balance
By Charlotte Reeves
If you’re like most pet photographers, at some point you’ve struggled with setting the correct white balance of your images in the editing stage.
Join the Edit My Photo challenge
Each month we run a free editing challenge, where we provide one of our pet photography RAW files for you to edit!
You submit your edit, we choose a winner! The winner receive a badge and a free 20-minute lifeline call with Charlotte or Craig.
The Edit My Photo challenge takes place inside our Free Community, where you can:
- View the current challenge
- Download the RAW file to edit
- Submit your challenge image
- View past challenges and see winners
We'd love to invite you into our global, friendly and supportive community of pet photographers so you can participate (plus, there's even more great stuff waiting for you inside).
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