Lessons
Day 1
1Day 1 Pre-Show
07:46 2Working with Animals
40:48 3Shoot: Nikki and puppy "Gus"
15:38 4Shoot: Laura Jean and her two dogs "Faith" and "Codi"
26:36 5Shooting Tips
18:58 6Different Types of Portrait Sessions
19:37 7Consultations
27:29Shoot: Brittany and Andi with their dog “Marley”
13:10 9Shoot: Lee and cat “Harley”
15:02 10Shoot: William and cat “Herbie”
15:31 11Shoot: Shayla with 3 dogs “Aballah”, “Blake”, “Brody”
23:06 12Shoot: Brett and dog "Issabeu"
16:32 13Shoot: Gill and dog “Pumpkin”
17:02 14Family with their dog “Bean”
28:32 15Breaking the Stereotype of Pet Photography
24:07 16Day 1 Wrap-Up
08:07Day 2
17Day 2 Pre-Show
09:16 18Day 1 Image Review
12:40 19Marketing, Networking and Advertising
1:09:58 20The Pet'ographique Experience
58:31 21Adoption Portraits
12:42 22Products Unique to Pet Photography
04:48 23Running Your Business
42:42 24Thanks + Credits
03:20 25Shoot: Family with Farm Animals
47:12 26Day 2 Wrap-Up
06:33Lesson Info
Day 1 Pre-Show
Hello, Internet. Good morning and welcome to pet photography with Arkad ORF here on creativelive. I'm cap e j. And I am thrilled to be hosting with Susan Roderick today. Hey, I'm doing excellent. You ready to get this party? So I'm so excited about photography of no idea. We've got cats, we've got dogs. We've got other animals surprise animal fries. So we're gonna do a few minutes, a free show, and we check our audio and video. So if you can let us know if you can hear us and see us, go to creativelive dot com slash chat and let us know what you're thinking and where you're joining in this room. All right, well, I would love to introduce our instructor for the next two days. I could talk. How are you doing? You guys said it's so great to have you here today. Having me, I'm not sure if you people at home know, but we did have a creative life spotlight where we had six people come in and basically pitch to us a workshop. And there was a winner of that seal spotlight and it was arca. It w...
as like an American idol competition. It was an American Idol competition. It was in Las Vegas. We had so much fun. And there were amazing people presenting and trying to become instructors on Creativelive. And I mean, are you just blew everybody out of the water. Everybody was just clapping and smiling. And I'm so excited about this workshop. Thank you. So that is very cool. We everyone, we have a great studio audience with us today. We have eight people in the Creativelive house. So we love to introduce you to all the people at home. If you'd like to just start and let everybody know your name. Maybe if you're a pet photographer or if you'd like to become a photographer and let everybody know how they can find you online and we'll start with you. My name starts Evans from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I'm primarily a pet photographer and really excited. Teoh. Spend the next two days with ARCA. I am Karen Foz Berg. I'm from Liberty Lake Washington and I've been a vegetarian for over 30 years and have decided to make the switch to have pet photographer and mailed my my two loves. So I'm excited. Arca, You confined me and Twitter at Karen Foz Berg or Karen Fallsburg photography dot com. I love it. Karen and her audition video said, I want to start shooting with this and not this since she had a camera and then she had a syringe at her office. So, yeah, I love that, Does it? Hi, I'm Rebecca Rossman. My website is modern Pat art, and I'm a pet portrait artist. Use oil pastels in the paintings, and I'm wanting to expand into photography. Teoh give people more like a full art experience. So thank you. I'm Heidi Eater and you can find me at right brain for higher on Twitter. Facebook website is all the same, right brain for higher. I am outside San Francisco in the East Bay, California San Ramon. I'm originally from Northern Ontario, and I volunteer doing pet photography at a couple of local shelters, doing their website photography for their animals, and I volunteer taking some photos and I volunteer teaching art and painting, and there's a common thread there. I volunteer. I'd like to be paid at some point, so that's why I'm here. And I hope you can help me with that. Erica. We just like to volunteer. Get paid. Hi, I'm Paul McCartney and you can find me on Facebook at Paula McCartney Photography and I'm just starting pet photography songs. So excited to learn from archive Heard so much and just great. It's great to be here. Thank you. By Melissa From Victoria BC I'm Unleashed PET Portrait's dot com I've been a pet photographer for a while now, but I think there's lots more to learn, so very excited. Hi, I'm Tracy Sutherland. I'm in Squamish B C, which is just straight north from here. And you can find me at Tracy Sutherland dot com. Hi, I'm Christiane and Anderson. I'm from Bend, Oregon. Pet photographer. I volunteer a lot. Teoh used to work for a nonprofit no kill animal shelter. And so when I wasn't working there anymore, I can't need to get my fix. So I started doing photography, and that's where I'm at right now. Just kind of doing a part time and Christie g photo dot com with an I, um no good spell Cristiana. Much like they probably can't pronounce it. Bill Arcas ends the Christie G photo and I'm on Twitter. Also fix. We are thrilled to have you all here is talking with Melissa before the show and she was so excited to nerd out with the group. It's sort of like the a V club of cut photographers everyone really jazzed and passionate about what they dio. So it's gonna be great in studio class. And I'm sure, as always we've got are amazing, uh, off studio online. You're online on my audio, So you Yeah, I would love Teoh. I just wanted to say for I appreciate for all of you I love hearing your stories absolutely fascinating, each one of you so exciting to have such a diverse studio audience. And it's incredible stories, So very cool. All right, so I'm not sure if you realize how many people are joining us from around the world. Erica, I'm not trying to make you nervous, but it's great to know just the global, the global range of people that are watching this and watching you teach photography. So let's give some shout outs to people. And, like we always do in the chat rooms. Ask people where they're joining us from so we can let our Cano so we have Moroccan is joining us from Morocco and I can't pronounce the town, But I think its core zat zat stay. That was that Probably Thanks. Um let's see. We have, uh, Carl French is joining us from the UK We have Your name is joining us from Paris. We've got pause Ta graffiti! Good morning in Gilbert, Arizona. And that's gone mad in the northern tip of Ireland where it's raining. Surprise, surprise! It's also raining here. Seattle Reining. Never eso we have. Ponto is joining us from Estonia. We have Jet is joining us from the Netherlands. Amanda is joining us from Nashville, Tennessee, and Sammy is joining us from Ecuador. And we've got Daniel Far June from Rio. Hello. We've got Boxer Mom to from Panama City, Florida and we've got Rachel Joe loud and clear in Boulder, Colorado. So they're just starting to pour in now. But you get the kind of get the idea of and you know, the cool thing about this also is that these people are watching in the middle of the night when you're watching, I mean all hours of the day. So it's it's it's a very cool. We also have Oscar joining us from Columbia. I'm not sure what time it is in Colombia right now, but pet photographers, global unites and Arco, where you're from your from Las Vegas, right? I live in Las Vegas now. Yep. I've been there for 13 years. What do you think of Seattle so far? I love it. What's funny? We were laughing cause it's so rainy here. But we love it cause it's such a change. Like in Vegas. It's like Cindy, Cindy, Cindy, Cindy, Cindy. We came here were like rain that everyone's like. It's raining again. So it's like a nice change for us, style of it.
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
I've watched A LOT of CreativeLIVE courses and Arica is by far the most effective and talented instructor I've seen. She's also got an extraordinary ability to photograph animals and their humans while remaining calm and in control. Even if you're not a pet photographer, this is a fabulous resource. Putting aside how amazing it is to watch her photograph in what seems like impossible situations and get the shot time after time, she also gives a lot of great information that applies to any professional photographer, whether they photograph pets or not. She's truly an amazing talent and I hope she does many more workshops -- I'm not a pet photographer but I'll watch all of them.
CB
Arica's presentation was extraordinary. Such an incredible amount of valuable, practical information on everything from the basics of how to run a business profitably to how to attract and maintain value-oriented clientele to actually working with and photographing a variety of pets and their people. Arica demonstrated time and again during the live shoots that she was in mastery of both her techniques and her subjects, and in a way that felt simultaneously relaxed/casual and businesslike. That last session with the horse, duck, chicken, rabbits, dogs and people was a challenging balancing act and she pulled it off flawlessly. Finally, I appreciate all the detail she provided, such as names of vendors and how and why she uses each one. Absolutely no filler, all substance. I am in the process of taking my own pet photography from sideline business/ volunteer work to profit-making status and the timing of this program could not have been better for me. I'm a huge fan and look forward to more from her although it’s hard to imagine that there is anything left for her to cover about this topic because in this course, she did it all. A natural talent: smart, great on-screen presence, honest and a true teacher. Thank you, Arica!
a Creativelive Student
Hi I am an aspiring pet photographer. I own 6 dogs and 4 cats that have been rescued in some way. I have learned a lot just by practicing with them. Arica's course today and yesterday showed me what I was doing wrong and everything that I was doing right. I impressed myself that I actually was doing very well. lol. I do have a web site http://squeakynes.wix.com/lisas-creations ,and if you can review it and give me some positive critism, it would just be terrific. There is a tab titled pets etc. My email address is under contact me. Thank you in advance. I tried to watch other courses but none of them would keep my attention. I had no problem with Arica AT ALL. I definitely will attend all and any other courses she offers. Her courses made me realize this dream of mine is just what I am suppose to do in life. I have a lot of the same qualities as Arica and my passion for animals. But...............I WILL NOT photograph snakes, no way. lol Arica, you TOTALLY ROCK. I look forward to the next one. xoxo
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