Darren Spurgeon
Photography. Technology. Words.
Pets don’t have to be challenging. You just have to build trust with them and have a lot of patience. In some respects, they’re like young children: short attention spans, excitable, moody. Still they will warm up to you if you come with the right attitude.
A long-time acquaintance of mine emailed me, asking for some portraits of her two “children”, Maggie and Maddy. In all, I spent a good hour or so with them, snapping away as they played. Those are all fun shots, but I thought I’d show the more posed images. The lighting included both natural and flash, which I bounced off the wall behind me and at some angle. I included the final B&W alongside the original on the last image just so you can see how I styled it for the print I made for myself.