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Seriously, unplanned shots are great but if you're going to do pet photography, you need to set up a shoot where you're working a bit closer to the dog/cat and where you work on the most difficult aspect of pet photography: baiting. If you talk with James, Julie, Dee Dee and others, you'll find that getting expression, ears and head angle is the most difficult part of this particular discipline. To do that, you have to know what's correct and then figure out a way to get the animal to do it.



Just reading through this thread and found the above quote rather interesting. If I have interpreted the paragraph correctly it is suggesting that "pet photography" is more about posed sittings and portraiture type work than it is about candid photography where there is no setting up of the animal.

I'm wondering if others define pet photography in this manner, and if so, why candid style photography is not as highly regarded?

Quite interested in others opinions on this! And to the OP...I loved the beach shot!

Kim