I always try to keep my hand in at other types of photography, not wanting to become stuck in a rut just doing urbex pictures. I’ll often try to arrange model shoots, band shoots and gig photography whenever the chance arises, so when the opportunity presented itself lately to do some pet shots for a couple of friends of mine I jumped at the chance.

There are a few things i could have done better, and i only wish i had found the Digital Photography School post about photographing pets before i had done the shoots, but I guess that this just means I have to go and get more practice at it and put some of those principles into practise. I’m pleased I managed to carry out some of them without having read the article, but I could definitely do with trying some of those other hints.

A couple of examples of shots taken in the two shoots so far, the complete galleries of which can be found at the bottom of this page of my gallery.

I’m off to the Nurburgring soon to do some shooting out there, so ill get some practise in shooting cars both stationary and while racing, so that should be an interesting challenge. I had done this about a year previously as this is an annual trip to the ring, but i was only just starting to get to grips with my camera last time, so im looking forward to seeing the results this year.
If you have anything you would like me to shoot for you, as I said I’m always happy of the practise, so please give me a shout and we can arrange something.

~Shepy