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In the business of "pet photography" most people are willing to pay for formal or informal portraits. You might even be able to get someone to pay for candids of your dog running on the beach or in a dog park. But the portraits require more sophisticated posing and baiting techniques than simply capturing the moment.



The last sentence of the above paragraph seems to reduce candid style photography to nothing more than "snapshot" work that requires little in the way of technical, creative or artistic competence???



On the contrary, I think capturing the moment takes excellent technical, creative/artistic competence. But making the moment takes all that plus more. And that's why I believe that formal portraits are more difficult overall than candids. And also why they are more marketable.

Jim

Jim Garvie
www.jagphoto.biz