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Shoot: Family with Farm Animals

so excited. So what we've decided we're actually going to do I kind of talked Jennifer a little bit about what's the most important thing, And I kind of want to shoot in prayer, order priority, like I always do. And one of the most important shots, as with the dogs. So I'm gonna do a family shot first with the dogs that we're gonna bring. What's your baby's name? The pony. Oh, I have a duke to Okay, it's not a pony, but I have a Duke s. So we're gonna bring Duke in for a shot, and then this is what's going through my head. Anyway, this is a plan. I don't know how it's gonna work out, but Duke in the dogs would take a break, and then we're gonna do some of the other animals, the girls with their bunnies, because it's their bunnies, I think have a duck, chicken, all kinds of things. So, yeah. So is Tara here? Yeah. Yeah. Let's get terror. Let's get your sister. Oh, hello. Okay. Okay. Mm. He was excited. All right, so we're gonna have someone actually hold Duke if we could. Whoever you're...

comfortable with Jennifer, If He's okay. Just kind of standing off to the side for a little bit. Oh, yeah. One of you? Not in the portrait. So if you're comfortable with Yeah, go ahead. So sweet how they walk. Have you guys had portrait that with all of you before? Cool. Okay, I'm excited. It's okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna do a test shot. Obviously. We need the dogs. She bringing both dogs. Okay. Just a test shot. Mm. And you might as well just cuddle in for one. Just since you're sitting there here already on measures over you. Okay, Perfect. So that's actually move those brushes. I don't think I'm gonna see them, but just in case so they're not Let's actually get him all the way out. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah, It's OK. It's all right. Hey. Hi. How are you? Coming in? Yeah, We want dogs, too. Bring our doggies in. Yeah. How did you get this job? All right. Come here, sweetheart. And this baby is what? So I'm actually gonna have the girl stand up for a second, you guys, and then we're going to get him all the way. It leads us on for just a second and let's call him, appall them on the couch. I want him up here with you. I'm gonna do like a fun cuddling shot. You're gonna wait for a second name? Yeah, I believe so. Sweet. Lean all the way back. As long as we don't block his face. Let's take his collar off if you're comfortable with that. Yeah. Okay, let's get mojo up. Motors going to kind of sit on Mom's lap every go. So let's do hard this off, and you can sit right here, sweetie. Right next to my job. Okay. All right. Perfect. Good job. I like him sitting. Yeah, all the way up. And then Lena, sweetie. And actually, you can turn your shoulders. Turn, turn, turn. Yeah, Get in there. Perfect for you guys. What I'm gonna do, Just a test shot. I'm just going to make some noise is to get the dogs attention. And all you need to do is smile and look at the ready. Go. There it is. Good job. So good. Okay, lets just do one. Fund one. You guys were gonna look at the dogs, so not at me. Give me a big smile. Oh, hold on. Okay. This is good. This is that we talked about yesterday. Something got their noise. They're not a good time to try and get their attention. Hold on. Okay. You has a little trick is if you blow on them. And when they look at you, big smiles. Okay, Thanks. I'll look at the dogs. Looking dogs get a proper job. Perfect. And then mojo to blow on him. Logo. No, I don't care. It's OK. No, that's okay. He's perfect. Okay, let's actually get I like him sitting for one just, like show his size. But if we can get him to lace them and then hold on, don't let him lay just it. Keep in their hold on. Hold on, hold on. Um, Mojo away for a second. He's gonna lay over your legs, So scoot in and heavenly all the way over you. Perfect. Okay, Scoot in here, sweetie. Get in that spot and then screwed up. Memo Modric and sit in your lap, ok? And his but can be there. Yeah, there we go and screwed up. Sweetie, you're gonna face this way. Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn. Very good. Perfect. Uh, cute. You guys all right? And you can put this arm on her too. So you guys are just connected. Plus, um okay. I don't even have my belt. Okay, you guys. Perfect. So we don't want your hand on Low Joe's head. They bend your arms. Just relax. Ben. Ben! Ben! Ben! Ben. There you go. All right. Ready? More spinning. It's OK. He can hear it. He's just not sure where it's coming from. I'm gonna do a toy just cause they're calm. Any Wait. Perfect. Riga. Keep looking. You guys keep looking, but spirit is perfect, kid job. One more. I just want one more. He's good. He's just looking cause there's things above me that are moving. Can you bend your arms? Yeah. There it is. All right, hang in there. Get a big smile. One second. Thank you. Perfect. That was your really cute. Okay. Can we see that one on tethering? Cool. Okay. Awesome. You guys. Okay, so we're actually gonna, um, dogs and go back on a leash for a second there. Definitely going to be involved in more shots. Yes. I think we should go get your bunnies. You get your money's out if you're comfortable. No. Does he need his heart? Isn't it be okay if you want it. Good to know. OK, so no, she's just saying that he can't be with the bunnies just for safety. So if you guys want to sit, if you're okay, just sitting. I could just have the girls so you can actually sit right over here. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah, I know. It's a little bit. It would be great if we could see some of the images. And have you maybe could take them a little bit? Sure. I'm liking this about Yeah, but not I'm not sure I want to change. Yeah, well, like this shot what I was going for because our great Dane wasn't looking at the camera cause there was cameras flying above, so he was kind of just like looking at other things. Andare crusted isn't looking in that shop, but I know that he's looking in another one consecutively, so I'm gonna stop heads on that because he was sitting in the same exact spot, So yeah, I'm happy. I mean, I'm gonna crop less of the top out, but I like the lighting. They're all connected. Yeah, I love it. I'm happy with it. Okay, I sweetheart. So we're doing the girls with their bunnies because either their bunnies. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Have a seat. Yep. Nice and post get together, get together together, together, together. And then if we can can I see your baby? Okay. For one shot. Can you hold their like this? So she's closer to your face. Okay, I'm not. Have you got a perfect and just like that? If we can try that, sweetie, you hack it all the way. They both boys Okay? Okay. Perfect. Yes. So see how she's holding him where he's handing, standing on his own, so don't hold them up. Just have your arm under him. Yeah, see? So you can sit on his own. Perfect. Okay, Just like that. You guys stay there. So with bunnies like this, there's really not noises or things to get bunnies. Attention. A lot of times, you just kind of Lena let them be. So they get interested in something and kind of get their years up. That's the thing with bunnies. This one that's perfect. It's OK. They can do that. All right, give me a smile, you guys, he's perfect. And then this other baby with the years back, that's just not what we want. But the only way to get them to get their ears up is just so let them kind of get interested in something and be so we'll see if they do it in a second. And if not, I'm gonna have the girls put them down. So if you can see that shot, I mean, it's super cute cause they're facing each other. I think you're gonna be a little nervous. It's OK. All right, then. Let's do this. Can you guys stand up? Good job. Stay there. Stay there. Okay. We're going to get our little step here. This way. You guys can be real close to them. So you're gonna sit here, Me do that. But they're going to go up here, so if you can put him up. All right, baby, this is what you gonna do. Let me show you. Let's go back. Okay. And you're just gonna lean over okay? With meaning, and they're both gonna go right next to each other, but see, even just doing that, they kind of got their ears up. a little bit more coming over meaning, Meaning me. And you're gonna bean in perfect just like that. You can put your arm in their back. Just like that Stays close. Is you guys can Okay, yes. This is yet very go. It's OK. Uh huh. But this way, at least we have a little bit better of a chance for them. Toe Get their years up. So you guys are gonna look at me, You big smile off, good girls. Perfect. Yeah, One more time. Perfect. Yea, Former time. You guys keep looking. I am there. But that way just letting them be on the couch. They just want to explore a little bit more. That years went up, so I'm totally happy with that image. Yeah, if you guys can see that one, I'm totally good with that. So we got the girls. They look wonderful. Yea, OK, let's give the bunnies a break. Good job. That's all we need, Just those ears. So when we do adoption portrait's with bunnies, I just let him chill. I just put him on ottoman with a blanket and I just wait until they kind of get those years going. So It's OK. Okay. Is that stressed, or is that OK? Ok, Yeah. Okay. Um let's let's do him. He's talking. Let's Let's get him, Jennifer. I'm gonna have you handle him. I'm not gonna expect him to go on a couch. And what are you and what? Are you comfortable with him having his Arnason or what's that? That's about where I want him around. Whatever you're comfortable with, I'm gonna focus on the eyes if you're comfortable. Do you want to leave it on? That's fine. That's what I'm gonna have you do. If he's like this, put the harness around the other way. This video this way. No, this way. Sorry. This way. And then around there we go. So if his body's turned this way, I have less against his skin, Okay? And I want him a little bit sideways. I don't want him straight to me, so Okay. Yep, You're fine. And I'm just trying to hide stuff away from him for a brief moment. Your have tonight. So you're gonna send over here so we don't block this light? Okay, America. Perfect. All right, step out, sweetie. That's the past about I Hi. And I'm gonna give it one second to look at you. And he doesn't matter which way he faces, sweetie. Yeah. There you go. All right. Hang in there. What are you doing? Good. And I'm just gonna do my little feather thing. A lot of times when I'm photographing horses outdoors, I'll take, like, leaves or things that break a branch And, like, do the thing with the leaves. So I don't know if that's why he was looking, but it was cute. I'm happy with it. Okay? That's probably my favorite shot. Just cause you can see his face, the leash hanging over his back on the right, I would take it out. That's one where I would photo shop. Just cause we don't want to take I'm not gonna take it off his face for sure. But the part on his back No, no. Whatever. Your oh, if you're comfortable with that, yeah, it's okay. And let me just close up. Who's going? You doing good, but and you know what? His ears were Ford on those. So what? Okay. And it's just like dogs. They have little radar ears. So as long as they go up, it's good so stuff on one of those. Even That's a really good angle. The thing to when you're photographing horses, you want to make sure that you're stepping back and zooming in because it's really easy to distort them because they're so big. So don't shoot them wide angle. Don't get really close. And to make sure you're like millimeters or further from them. Okay, we can put his leash on. Yea, and he can take a break. He still needs to be in a portrait, but you can take a break. It seemed where your horse Serious e and everyone Okay. All right, we're gonna dio Is there a chicken and a duck? Okay. Or one of you comfortable moving them over here. And the image that's tethered right now that's like a gorgeous background. Yeah, I mean, that background, like, really goes well with them, so yeah. Yeah. Okay, So we are going to attempt a group shot at some point today. Did the chickens is that you can get along with anyone. The doctor is a kind of a solo, but Okay, well, we can try it for the group shot. Let's do that. But there's this one should be photographed. This one solo. Are they ever together? Yeah. Okay, you're coming in. Well, let's do a solo shot first. So your job is just gonna be to stay? Let's put the baby right here, and you can kind of stay right where I am, and I'm gonna try and keep your arms and everything out. But just if I've actually done chickens before for adoption Portrait's so all right. It's OK. It's OK. And what we can dio Yeah, if he wants to check it out. It's good. I just want the head up. Really? And actually, his brown looks like, really pretty. There it is. Yeah, Chicken on a luxury couch. All right, let me show you. That's, like, super pretty. His head's up. Oh, gosh, that's cute. Is he comfortable? And I actually like the head sideways like that. As opposed to straight on, sweetie. Here we go. No, that's perfect. I'm good with him. Perfect. Let me show you that shot. Okay. Thank you for putting him up there. That was a great idea. Client's idea. I mean, actually shows his coloring better because he's against the White wall on this one. Score on this shot, which I like to, but you can see all of its colors. Can you see that? He actually matches the couch when you see that. Okay. All right, Mr Duck, It's your turn. Hi, sweetie. All right, Get him up there. Yeah. Does he have some? And preferably if we can turn him. So his head comes this way. And now it's being really picky for a duck on, but body this way. Head this way. Thank you. I'm just doing that for more options and let him go. He's okay. Oh, okay. My I don't know if I'm timing it with his mouth open. I can't sell. Uh huh. Oh, that's awesome. Did you see that? Here it is. And those? Oh, all right. So put them coloring is pretty. Ruby. Yeah. You got personality, dude. You shake your tail feather. Very pledges. See what he does. Hi. That's perfect. I'm good with that. And you pooped. It's OK. I'm good with poop. That's awesome. Yeah, he's going. Actually, that's really pretty, So Yeah, girl. All right. Oh, throwing back in. Okay, What's next on the agenda? I'm I'm kind of thinking I want to tackle the group shot before we? Yeah, I'm kind of thinking I want to tackle that, and then we can do some other breakdowns. But this is kind of the reason to why in my studio, I crank the air down to 68 like Jennifer's like, Oh, my God, it's on. And just in a lot of times, it's not just the heat stress. It's also just like it's a stressful thing. Like when I did my family portrait, it's I was like, Why is it so hot in here? You know? So I'm thinking, All right, let's walk Duke in here. Let's walk Duke and the dogs in here. I don't know. He want this. All right, So Duke's gonna go right here, right here. So let's turn him around. Awesome on. You're gonna sit on the chair, hold on to him on the couch arm on other catches. Yeah, And then let's get, um, what's his name? Greeting 20. Let's get Woody up. So I'm gonna kind of do the same shot where his paws are kind of over your over your arms. So I want him way for Thank you. That's okay. Keep calling him. Yeah, he needs to go away for you. It's okay if you need a kind of police for Can you hold that way? Come on. It's OK, sweetie, but Okay, then let's do this. This way. Leave him. Scoot over. Get in there and we'll make. This is Grace. Is Grace okay? Holding. Okay. You're gonna sit then, sweetie, but you're still gonna control. Do OK, What? Alright, Tara, I want you over here. So this is your spot right there. What you got there? Sorry, sweetie. They say, Well, let's not choke him. Can I pick it up? Oh, we will take your little leash off and hoping. You all right? You're one of the taller than the other. All right, we're gonna switch spots. Okay? You're have a seat, sweetie. We're gonna stand back there. Get up. Stand on the couch. Over here. Over here! Over here. Get in there. Although we had about that, Yeah, you're gonna stand maybe almost gonna sit on the arm. Yeah, it's okay. You can send on the couch. Yeah, I get your boots on there and you can just sit right there. Perfect. Okay, you baby, you're gonna go right here. Perfect. Awesome. All right, sweetie. So your job is just to make sure he's not blocking your face if you need to lean that way. Here we go. And then let's put your arm behind. So we're not blocking her so much. Yeah, we're kinda including her. Here we go. Okay, Let's get Mojo is bottom down, Okay. He was doing all right. Oh, I think. Perfect. Alright, Binge arms. And and then then there you go. Give me a smile, guys. Ready? Number time. Okay, I'm just working on mojo. It's okay now. He's okay. All right? If we can, too. With Woody with that Paul, If we can pull his elbow, like, all the way over your leg, Can we tell them that there we go. Perfect. See how that set him way better than his paws being like this. Cool. All right, you guys. Actually, sweetie, can we hide the leash behind you? You can still hold him, but put it all behind you. Actually, you want to hold it back there? Yeah, we don't have to see it. Perfect. Lean this way towards Mom. I want you guys closer in the back. Perfect. All right, you guys hang in there. Thanks very much Up. There you go. Perfect. We got mo Hosiery school. Cross your ankle, sweetheart. Cross for us. For us. Yeah. Okay. You guys over time and hold on. I'm going to see if the walking up the trick works That tricky up. Got his head up. We'll see if it stays perfect. Ready? You already get it. Yeah. Good job. Perfect. Awesome, You guys, we got a group shot. Yeah, I'm shooting a little bit fast, so and I don't know if that's the best one, but I know we got horses head up one of the shots on the dog's ears up and one of the shots. Good job, you guys. Yeah. So did you want to try the chicken? Give me try that. Okay, because so we mentioned doing the chicken on Duke's back. But it's definitely not something that I wanted to start with doing. So whatever we get from here is kind of bonus, cause I'm happy with that shot, So if we can bring chicken over, sweetie. Yeah, I can crank it up a little bit. Yeah, and I do want all these guys to stay, though they're not going anywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear, we're still going to do. We're going to stick with a group Still. Yeah. And you know what? Let's try and add them. Who is he? Not good with. Okay, um, funny, cause if he's here, let's actually, yeah, let's wait on and just just hold him. Was on the sea. Stays. Here we go. Get and let's not put him on there for now if that bothered him. Close. All right. Here. There you go. It's good at more. Right there, babe. That's his spot. Okay, free. Hi there. You see the tail under the legs. There we go. You're OK. Can we add more? Can we had bunnies, OK, keep everyone where they are. We're gonna have bunnies. I'm gonna hold off on the duck for a second because I was told he might be means so I don't want to throw off the energy. Yeah, they ready? Okay. It's gonna walk him. Welcome. Welcome around again. Let's take a walk. And the girl. Let's have the girls hold them since there. Perfect. Okay, knock it off and hold them up in a number of earlier cross your ankles. Just your ankles in shackles. No, I want to. A pearl tall sweetie. And I actually like Woody up in this one. All right, you guys hang in there. Okay? Ready? And you're gonna look like you're having fun. Ready? All right, stay there. I'm shooting a little bit fast. Here we go. I'm gonna do a squeaky since everyone's not running. There you go, guys. Hang in there. Big smiles perfectly. Got the dogs on that one. Okay, stay right there. I just want Duke. Here we go. I'm good with that. Good job. Let me show you guys that one. So and we got the dogs on this. Somebody have a chicken, then we have a horse. Okay. Um uh, can we attempt duck now? Okay. Can we bring a duck over? Go bringing the ducks. So, like I said, I was starting with important images because the dogs like there's a lot going on. They're not carrying as much, but they're still perking their ears, so it's really cool. Well, chicken stay by himself up here. Can Is he OK? Russ is going in. Everyone can I, Darcy, I just want chicken. Is your job? No. Darcy's going to get him hands out when I get this shot. Here we go. Keep your body out as much as you can. Perfect. Okay. Keep a hand on his day. Scared way. Perfect. And you guys were perfect thing in there. Perfect. Thank you, sweetie. That's perfect. Good job, You guys all right? Ready? Ready? Okay, give me a smile. Ready? Go ahead, Carsey Mojo. Give him a second. I'm just gonna wait for his eyes to come this way. You guys are all doing good. Mojo. Ready? Go get it. Almost going to do it again. Sorry. Hit the camera. Who'd you ready? OK, I'm gonna have everyone stay there. You're good. Welcome back in one more time. I'm actually really happy with that. Except for Mojo. I'm gonna have you knock on the wall. But don't do it till I'm ready. Fairly, Fairly well, but wait till I'm ready. Grace, make sure that we can see its face. Okay. Careful. Okay. All right, you guys, Wait one second. Right there. Ready? Yeah. 123 Go ahead. Hang in there. There it is. Summertime on. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep down perfectly. got his ears. Awesome. Okay. Good job. Yeah. Good job. Uh, thank you. Can we cheer for that one or what? What? He looks just I zoomed it in. That's not how I shot it, but way. Do you hear that? She said these air, their wedding announcement pictures. That's also e love that. Cool. Um, yeah, I'm good. What do you think? Were there any other combinations? Let's actually do. Won't just the two of you guys just before we leave. Just so you have it. It's cool job, you guys. Uh huh. Yeah. So that's the first time the entire workshop that we had to use the knocking noise. But it works. It was good. Seven animals, you know, But good job, baby. Are the internet is going crazy? There's great Danes on the loose on the Internet is excited. Everybody is going crazy in the chat room. Excuse me, great Dane. He's okay. Out of camera shot. He's just kind of concluded to blesses. You can see the great game. Yea, arca. How do you think that went? I think it was awesome. I think that was like, the perfect mix of personalities and getting everyone so look and even that shot. I mean, I might be a little bit picky about the Chinese. Crested, like, a little bit more looking at the camera, But I think we got it enough that he was sitting in the same spot. And like I said, I'm not relying on photo shop, But in a group like that, Yeah. And for like, a preview shot. I'm really happy with that. So they're supposed to be some rats involved in Other were. No, that was awesome. I love it. Well, like everyone said this, that this is a first on creativelive e Think the horse neighing threw everybody off there for a minute. What horse? With his loud right. Perfect. That was great. That was awesome. I loved to read some of the comments, but do you want to walk us through some of the shots or do you want to do individual shots right now? What would you like to dio shooting wise? You mean, like, why can walk you through some? I think we're done shooting with the animals, so that would be great. It's just really good for us to see what your liking and what you're not sure. Sure, Sure, Sure. Okay. So, like, this shot here with the horse with Duke. I don't like him. Kind of wonky on that one. Were this shot here with his head turned. Even though he's probably uncomfortable, he doesn't look like it cause his head is kind of going that way. So it's amazing that the chicken sitting there, the girls air holding the bunnies. Really, really well, a lot of times kids have the tendency to do that and stick their arms up in the bunnies. They're kind of like eso. They're doing a really good job of cradling them. I'm liking that. Um, let's flip through a couple of these chickens doing good. I'm looking for the shirt on the Chinese crested. Yeah, those last couple, I think are the best ones. Um, let's see. Yeah, even that one of the Chinese crested. I even, like, a little bit better, but no, I'm happy with that. I mean, everyone. I like the way they're posed. I like the composition. I like using the whole couch. So they're high and low and different colors. And is this the most typical shot that you've ever done? Probably. I mean, I've done monkeys before And otters, um, when I was shooting that the monkey was sitting on my head while I was photographing. There was a two can at that session, but yeah, that's probably one of the yeah, more eclectic sessions, So just robbed one into now. So thanks just around for that question. A. Let's list off what animals we have again. So we have two dogs. Well, great Dane. So that makes three dogs, but two dogs, a chicken, two rabbits, a duck and a mini horse. Right? And what I love to like this is like a really family that, like she's taking these images seriously. It's not like, Oh, crazy. I'm gonna bring my snake and my whatever and it's just like these air riel pets to these people. You know? She's like, That's our wedding announcement right there, done, you know, and it's like it is fun and people are gonna laugh at it when they see it, but like she's gonna love that image. And that's your family that you pointed that out. It's not, isn't just for your entertainment. Yeah, really cool with that question, should we take some Q and a you ready for questions? I love the way that how Jennifer had thought of putting the perch up there, but as far as getting the chicken on the back of the wars, maybe a towel for padding, cause when the chicken was digging in, Yeah, maybe that's what it was reacting to. Yeah, the only thing that would bother me with that is the fact that there would be a towel on his back. So but as soon as he just kind of bothered him, there's so much going on, there's no reason to push it. If they do it at home normally, then I'd say, Okay, let's give it a try again. But she said, We've never tried it before, so if it's something that they really normally do totally keep from. But she was like, I just thought of the fun. So the group shot was more important to me than trying a new shot that Yeah, I just had a comment that it looked really good. And Darcy, your hair looks like the chicken. Oh, really good. Uh, bless his heart. Have a couple comments I'd like to read from online. Pavlina said, I love the fact that was so many different energies in the shoot. Arkham managed everyone successfully, All animals look truly comfortable. Good. That's really hard. Yeah, And it wasn't mean. Duke was kind of like, I'm not sure if I want to stand here. The Chinese pressed it was not really feeling it, but it's just that split second, if you can get them to turn their head in perpetuity, years up and I'm gonna go through all the images and see that might be the best one of him. And a lot of times when you get into big groups like when I did 12 cats a bird in a dog, if you pick apart each cat individually probably not my favorite image of each cat, but just the fact that you have them all looking at the camera in a group shot like that. So the more animals there are, I think the less picky I am, the last animals there are the pick. Your I'm going to be about getting those perfect expressions. So picture love ask. Are there any animals that you would refuse to shoot for safety or ethical reasons for ethical reasons? Um, no. I mean, as long as the animals are being treated well. I mean, it's kind of like my brother just went to a barn in California and it's called the gentle barn and he's all about It's an animal sanctuary and things like that where he doesn't go to zoos and places like that cause he doesn't agree with animals being in a zoo where he likes them being in a sanctuary. So maybe they're going along those lines. But I don't think there's an that's an animals being mistreated somehow. But no, I can't imagine I'd turn an animal away for any reason. I mean, I've never done like a snake or anything, but it wouldn't like bother me. It's ah. If there's ever an animal that people were kind of like, Would you do that? I'm like, yeah, just let the owner handle them. I'm just gonna shoot, so okay, and we have a question from Brenda E. Do you shoot puppy letters before or after their eyes are open conditions? Well, it depends what the owners looking for. That's actually a really good question, cause we get calls all the time on that. People say I have a little puppies Well, first, what are you looking for? You looking for sleeping shots? Because that's younger than a year younger than six weeks. Totally conduce sleeping shots. But if you want them looking at the camera and focus like all the puppies in the bucket and that kind of shot, that's 8 to 10 weeks below eight weeks there, kind of at that rate where they can't see very far so they can hear noises really well. But they can only see so far. So they're kind of hear a noise and just kind of look around and look on the ground. That happens a lot with puppies. So when people want to do litters, if they want, I'm looking at the camera. I say 8 to 10 weeks. They have to be so below that, we're going to get sleeping shots. We're gonna wear him out and do sleeping because you're not going to get him to all. Look up at the camera. Great, thank you. Question from Laurie. And we did talk about this yesterday, but Lori asked, with the strobes firing, Do you ever find that the bunnies, cats or dogs eyes look blue or green like a reflection from the flash. And I'm just wondering, with so many animals, how what is it about your lighting set up that you're not going to get any difficulty with reflections in any of the animals? Eyes. When there so many eyes that you're photographing here, you know the angle of your any were not shooting straight. It's when you're firing using like a flash above your camera, and it's hitting the retina. That's what's getting the that glow to come back. So it's not the flash that's creating. It's this, the light bouncing into their eyes that's creating it, but no one you're using even, you know, when using directional light like this. But it's just such a soft source. I mean, even if I put this behind me and flat, let them. I'm still not gonna have that looks so I'm not a lighting master, but I'm thinking maybe it has to do with the size of the lights being bigger, softer soft boxes. But I've never had an issue with studio strobes, soft boxes causing any kind of a glow like that. So I mean, if you guys have experienced that, the only time of experience that is just shooting straight into their eyes with the speed light. So okay, we have another question from Tien Photo girl. Her daughter has a horse, and it's not a little one, though, and she'd like to get a good picture of them together. So is shooting a horse, whether bigger, small, done the same way, I say a dog or a cat like the face close to each other. And what are some poses for a full size? Worse? Sure. So, um as faras Attention getting tricks, too. It's a lot of the things I'm doing, just like on steroids. So when I did the last horse that I photographed, I had a beach ball, but not my little squeaky toy beach. But I had a beach ball, and instead of like my little feathers being that big, I broke a huge branch off the tree and were waving it up and down like this. So it's the same type of trick, so you just want to make sure their ears come forward in a group shot like this, I wouldn't be again. I'm not gonna pick apart. You know them individually in the group shot, but individually and just with the daughter. Try and make sure that years air Ford What I mentioned before, you can really distort horses if you photographed at the wrong angle or really wide angle. Their muscles can look really weird. So you always want to make sure you're stepping back and zooming in and not distorting them. But as far as poses, yeah, keeping heads together is always important. I mean, if we can even do shots, I don't know how old the daughter is, but if she can get her on a step even toe and do a head shot, don't photograph. It is a full length with the step, but, you know, zoom in and do a head shot. Whatever they do, they can hug. But any time you can keep the heads close together, your creating that emotion, so yeah, are going do Do you mind if we take a few minutes just to go over all the technical stuff? That all the technical because there were so many questions about the tech total? I'm so simple. So I don't even know how much Tekken I'm like. I'm such a simple shooter, so But yes, I would love to see if you just let us know the lens that you shot that with your settings were and sure. Maybe talk a little bit about your strobes. Yeah, that would be great. Just let everybody know. So this is a Nikon D 800 and let's just see what this was shot at. So this was you, 24 to 72.8. Thank you. This is what I'm always shooting with when I'm in the studio. When I'm outdoors, I use a 72 200 simply because animals air off a leash. Um, usually with dogs, and they're just running around. And this is too short to capture them when they're off a leash. So I usually always use a 24 to 70 in the studio. Um, I shot this at 25 I s 0 107.1 That's a about my normal. I'm usually somewhere between 5.6 and 7.1. I'm sorry. 5.6 and eight. That's kind of my normal aperture in the studio. So yeah, and then as faras lighting, this is a four by six and a three by four. So in my studio I have photogenic and Larson. So photogenic light heads and Larson soft boxes. These are pro photo light has and soft boxes. But these air awesome yesterday and today, Like these air kicking off amazing light. They fire really evenly. I'm really happy with, um so question from a c m 83 from Arizona. How far is a soft box from the pets when you start shooting? Um, I'm not that picky about it. I mean, I'm not one of those that if there needs to be more light, I usually move the lighting closer If I need less light. I mean, you can turn the power down, but I'm usually Yeah, just grab it and move it back a little bit. So I don't care as much about that. I usually have it fairly close. Like what you say. I mean, they're usually right out of frame is usually where my lights are, but yeah, I care more about the exposure than really the placement of the light. Yeah. So K s it appears that you shoot really tight. So how do you crop your images to an eight by 10 without losing more? So this shot that we're tethering. I keep zooming it in just to show it to you guys, but I actually shot it like this. Um, can we see that other this sound? So I actually shot it like this. But when she's asking, how do you crop it to an eight by 10? I don't crop to an eight by 10 if it doesn't crop well to an eight by 10. I sell custom sizes all the time, so I I sell for what I sell my portrait in inches. I don't sell 60 in my twenties. I sell 20 inches. So if that 20 inch portrait happens to crop well toe 20 by 16 or 20 by 20 or 20 by 10 it's all the same price. I just measure it by the longest side. So that's how my pricing is online. This just inches. So I'm not going to cram a portrait into an eight by 10 or 16. My 20 if it doesn't fit well that way. So crop it how it fits best, even if it's a wonky like 20 by seven. That's how the portrait crops best. So that's custom. Frame it. Most of my clients are doing custom framing anyway. But when you're doing gallery wraps, you don't have to worry about framing it. You can do any size, so I do shoot looser than what you were seeing. I shoot closer to this and actually the soft boxes in the shot there, so it's right outside the frame. But I do custom sizes all the time, so don't try and cram your portrait. So I think that's the problem. A lot of people have just trying to cram their portrait a certain way. Sell a square with a square crops better sell a square. It's not about the size of the eight by 10 the dimensions about how the images presented the best so so awesome. I just I'm so excited by the shoot. It was one of it was first here, a credible Ivan. It was I think one of the amazing things about it that we could feel in the studio is even though it was, there were a lot of moving pieces and it was a little chaotic in terms of managing everything. You really did not buy into the craziness, which is one of the initial things that he said, and it was it was pretty amazing how calm you stayed, how the animals really responded to that. Absolutely. And and I was. And I told Jennifer when she got here, I said, This is a really session to me. I'm not sure I know we're kind of doing this for entertainment purposes a little bit, just to be like there's gonna be a many horse and bunnies and I'm like, but I'm taking this seriously. I want to get good Portrait's for you So I don't want it to be like the chickens flying in the air and then the duck when? And it's like I'm gonna capture beautiful image for you. So even though that might not be as entertaining for people to be, like all this one's pooping and this one's running, I'm like it doesn't have to be crazy, but it is not that it doesn't have to be fun, but it doesn't have to be crazy.