I was just backing up some recent photography and this shot of Lisa and Jake made me smile.   This hound is the terror of his neighborhood who will chase every cat and most dogs, he will pull Lisa’s father over when he is being walked, and as I discovered last year he also kills raccoons.  All in all he has quite the history of being a big bad boy.  

So when he came around recently I was ready for that big hound personality but I was a little surprised at first.  Lisa and I had discussed trying to do some more arty photographs and I had a simple lighting setup to see what we could get with him.  Well, as soon as the flash went off Jake darted behind his mother and basically hid his face.  We laughed it off at first, but then after the second and third flash it became obvious that he wasn’t happy at all.  Turns out he just doesn’t like flash lights.  So we removed all the backdrops and lights and used the natural light coming through the window and then went out on the terrace.  

Working with him always brings the unexpected for sure!  

the fine art photography studio blog : pets welcome

Although I have been thinking fondly of fall recently it’s not too far away to remember that lovely color.  Living on the West Coast we don’t have the amazing fall color that the East Coast does, but with some careful planning there is color here, all be it not as much!  Along with the boys Heather and Brian came by the other day to review the photographs that we took last month.  We spent a couple of hours that day exploring the Arboretum here is Seattle and had some fun playing in the golden leaves.   The photograph below was one of their favorites of the five of them all together. 

One of my favorite parts of the our photography studio is the terrace.  Here we have a sizable outdoor space where we can make some lovely photographs - weather agreeing of course - we do live in Seattle after all!

Not only does that mean that we can grab some photographs with the skies in the background but we can also work things so that we get the city skyline in the background which I especially love with little ones.  Depending on the light we will often use a little fill flash to give a little extra light in our subjects face to help bring out the eyes and such.  Here are a couple of shots with this young man with our lovely emerald city in the background.