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Summary: Becoming a pet photographer requires becoming very comfortable with other people's pets, being able to capture their personalities on film and having a large portfolio to share with clients. Start photographing animals in various environments with helpful tips from a freelance photographer in this free video on digital photography.
Rebecca Guenther is a freelance photographer living in Austin, Texas. Since graduating from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2002 with a B.F.A. in photography, she has had the...read more
"Hi, I'm Rebecca Guenther with m5e1photography.com and I'm going to tell you how to become a pet photographer. First of all you want to get very comfortable with pets and not just your pets, other people's pets because they all have their own personalities and they're very likely to, maybe not like you touching them or be more inclined to run away than perhaps your animals is. Once you've done that, you want to practice photographing them. It's okay to start photographing your own pet; but you know, very soon, start photographing your friends' pets and figure out a way to make them look cute, but also to portray their personality because people want to see the personality of their pet in the photograph that you're taking. So you're going to want to practice that a whole lot and figure out that pets much like kids, do not sit still for very long so you're going to have to pretty much take as many pictures as you can, as fast as you can because that animal is going to run off. Make sure to always have the pet look good and be well-lit. Make sure the pet's clean before you photograph it and make sure the pet's owner is happy because they're the one whose going to pay for it; after all pets don't generally have jobs. And that's how you become a pet photographer."
eHow Article: How to Become a Pet Photographer
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