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
1Class Introduction 2Getting Started: Understanding Animal Psychology & Behavior 3Animal Behavior: Differences Between Dogs & Cats 4Guidelines for Horses and Other Animals 5Studio vs. Environment: Lighting and Gear Choices 6Pre-consultation: Getting to Know Your Clients & Their Pets 7Pet Portraits: Dogs, Judy 8Pet Portraits: Dogs, Kobe 9Pet Portraits: Cats 10Live Family Shoot: Couch Set Up 11Live Family Shoot: Standing & Chair Set Up 12Live Family Shoot: Single Family Member 13Shooting Segment Follow Up 14Business Goals 15Customized Business Model 16Stock Photography 17Commercial & Editorial Work 18Fine Art & Personal Projects 19Working on Location 20Making The Session Personal & Comfortable For Pets & People 21Finding Your Favorite Spots at The Location 22Awareness of Your Own Energy 23Directing Subjects 24Planned vs. Spontaneous 25The Studio vs. Non-Studio Experience 26Culling Images 27Final Image Presentation 28Sales 29Pricing 30Volunteer Work 31Portfolio Building PlanReviews
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!