Month: March 2017

I love green.  It’s my favorite color.  I painted my kitchen green, even repainted the cabinets medium olive green (believe me, it’s all light and lovely, not overpowering) when I renovated three years ago, as well as installed granite counter tops with specks of green.  So, when I saw that the theme this week was green, I knew exactly what picture to share with you.

A while back, I took my dog Chloe to our front lawn as the sun was setting, tied her to a tree and started snapping.  She looked at me and I kept snapping.  When I got back to my computer and saw these, I loved them.  Now, green can be too much, I realize that.  Some may not like this, but I do.  My camera was at 200mm and pretty wide open at f3.2, causing the grass to blur very nicely.  The only problem was that there wasn’t enough light to lighten her face, so I used the adjustment brush in LR and also intensified her catchlights, which can be a challenge with her.  I think the way her eyes are made, catchlights can be difficult.  I also used the adjustment brush to remove a slight green caste she got on her face.

Check out Pet Love Photography, serving Greater Cincinnati and the San Francisco Bay Area to see her green interpretation.

I learned about high-key lighting when I took a workshop from a professional pet photographer.  I do not yet have the lights that are normally used – flash strobes, etc.  I presently use either natural light or continuous lights. At the shelter where I volunteer to take photos, I use the continuous lights and it can be hard to get a white background to appear white, but, below, is pretty darn near close to it.   And I think pretty close to high key.   This is Bishop and I took his photo several weeks ago and love how it came out.

With all the snow some folks have been having (we didn’t get any here in Alabama), there should be some out there with high key lighting because of the snow.  Click on to Pet Love Photography, serving Greater Cincinnati and the San Francisco Bay Area to see if, perhaps, they did.