When you're a photographer, you get all sorts of crazy requests. Can you photograph shoes? Can you photograph my car? Can you photograph my girlfriend laying across the hood of my car - okay, can you just photograph my girlfriend?
The list is endless. And that's how we started photographing pets. When I was in photography school (many years ago) the last thing I thought I would be doing for a living is photographing babies and dogs.... but here I am. As we started photographing more and more families over the years we got more and more requests to bring the family pet to the photo session. As a pet lover myself, I couldn't say no. When you love portraits as much as I do you literally fall in love with whatever is in front of your camera. For me, a pet was a very small leap.
Fast forward to our studio today. Almost 40% of our sessions involve pets. We publish dog calendars, we have cat portraits published in national magazines and we do lots and lots of animal rescue portraits. Why? Because animals get adopted twice as fast (literally) with a good adoption photo online. You can see our Steve Hartman interview from a few years back that explains why we do them. It matters.
We also discovered that people REALLY love having portraits of their beloved pets. On holiday cards, on their desks and on their walls... there are so many places to put their faces.
This week, for the first time, we're going to do short 20 minute sessions for people with their pets. These studio pet portraits will use one of two different backgrounds we'll have available and we're hoping that it will be perfect for so many of the people that call us just looking for something quick and easy for the holidays. Or a less expensive way for someone on a limited budget to afford a really good portrait of their much loved pet. It matters.
Limited to three subjects (so, a person with one or two pets or two pets by themselves). The session fee of $95 is due when you call to book your session. The session fee does not include digital images or prints (those can be ordered but are not included). 972-250-2415
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