Integrating Animal Photography into your Business
Integrating Animal Photography into your Business
Class Description
This course is fantastic. Norah is incredibly open and so easy to listen to and understand. The course is comprehensive from start to finish covering all aspects of a pet photography business. I especially loved watching the live shoots. Getting to see her process on location was priceless.
-Jo Wilkens
Pets play a large part of every household, be it the best friend or first “child.” Yet capturing their personalities is often more difficult than just a click of the shutter. Instructor Norah Levine’s photographs are often defined by her clean compositions and authentic moments shared by people and their pets. Now you can join Norah as she shows you the basics of pet behavior and how to get animals comfortable with the camera. After this class, you’ll be able to capture great images of pets AND learn how to to incorporate them into your family photography.
In this class you’ll learn:
How to incorporate pets into your family photography.
Gain an understanding of animal behavior and key body language cues.
Build a business model that allows you to appeal to commercial, private and nonprofit markets.
Lessons
- Class Introduction
- Getting Started: Understanding Animal Psychology & Behavior
- Animal Behavior: Differences Between Dogs & Cats
- Guidelines for Horses and Other Animals
- Studio vs. Environment: Lighting and Gear Choices
- Pre-consultation: Getting to Know Your Clients & Their Pets
- Pet Portraits: Dogs, Judy
- Pet Portraits: Dogs, Kobe
- Pet Portraits: Cats
- Live Family Shoot: Couch Set Up
- Live Family Shoot: Standing & Chair Set Up
- Live Family Shoot: Single Family Member
- Shooting Segment Follow Up
- Business Goals
- Customized Business Model
- Stock Photography
- Commercial & Editorial Work
- Fine Art & Personal Projects
- Working on Location
- Making The Session Personal & Comfortable For Pets & People
- Finding Your Favorite Spots at The Location
- Awareness of Your Own Energy
- Directing Subjects
- Planned vs. Spontaneous
- The Studio vs. Non-Studio Experience
- Culling Images
- Final Image Presentation
- Sales
- Pricing
- Volunteer Work
- Portfolio Building Plan
Reviews
hollyferocious
Norah is really great and I learned a lot watching her. Even non-pet related things, like how she's continually trying to better herself were really inspiring to me. Since watching this, I've learned to take every shoot as a learning opportunity by evaluating what went right and what didn't, and thinking of what I can do next time to do better. I liked the way she showed interacting with animals in a way that doesn't stress them (well, depending on the animal there may be some level of stress anyway I guess...) too. Great class.
Chelsea Beauchamp
So inspiring! Great information on both family pet photography as a craft as well as the business side. Norah obviously knows what she's doing and has tons of experience, so it's a good chance to hear/see what it's really like to take this on as a specialty whether it's the focus of your work or one of many parts of your work. She focuses not just on the mechanics, but on the personal side of working with people and animals. You can tell she's passionate about what she does, too. It's only been one day of class and I already feel totally inspired!