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PET PHOTOGRAPHY

other outdoor locations. Individuals PET PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE
as well as organizations involved ARTISTS
in pet business require the services Photography is a form of visual arts
that we provide in order to showcase and pet photographers, specifi cally,
great depth in their pictures. Pets are real artists as their subject
have become an important part is somebody who doesn’t know
of the family, so people easily what exactly is happening around.
accept the idea of appointing a pet Pets are autonomous beings and
photographer, all you have to do is pet photographers have to adjust
give them pictures which are worth themselves and their cameras
their expectations and desires. according to their mobility. Then raw
Initially, it may be a little tough for pictures taken by them need to be pictures matters the most. Sites like
people who have recently developed edited and a little colour correction shutterstock and getty images help
their interest in pet photography always helps. Combining fi ne arts in selling pictures, which can be
and are willing to get into it as a with photography is also in trend used for marketing. As the number
mainstream career without any and people really love it. I personally of pets is increasing continuously on
experience, but a little extra effort have made a different category in scale, it has become more benefi cial
can help them reach their goals my packages named ‘manipulation for photographers to establish
in no time. Pet photography itself in pictures’, which gives me more themselves as pet photographers
involves different sub categories; appreciation and more clients. Dogs and choose it as a mainstream career
for beginners, best is to explore all are the purest souls and their life option.
of them and then get specialized in is very unique, it’s like a fairy tale

their field of interest. and for me getting that mood in HELPING SHELTERS AND ANIMAL
ORGANIZATIONS
We cannot predict suffering of
stray animals. If you are skilled at
photographing animals then why not
to take pictures of stray animals and
try to change everyone’s perception
for them. This can even help animal
shelters and organizations in getting
their animals adopted as good
pictures do have a power to change
the perception of people and the way
they look at these helpless beings.
This kind gesture also helps in your
skill development as shooting shelter
animals and strays is altogether a
different experience!

* The author is a 19 year old pet photographer/
cinematographer from central India. She recently
started her own venture ‘Sniff Stories’. She has

fine arts and filmmaking background, so she loves
giving a cinematic and artistic look to the pictures.
She has 3 rescued pets.
She can be reached at rsalonikhatri@gmail.com.

You can find her on Instagram @sniff_stories.
petphotography.
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