Pets and People Photography

Discover a whole new market for your photography business: Pets! Vicki Taufer will teach you how to bring in new work by including pets into your child, family, and portrait work. This course will show you how to work with your clients and their furry (or feathery or scaly) friends to make fabulous pictures. Vicki will demonstrate how to bring in new clients with her Dog Days of Summer program, a charity event she runs to help local animal shelters. You'll learn how she created a new market for pet photography in her town, and how YOU can do the same in yours.

• The V Gallery Evolution
• Selling the Experience
• Why Pets?
• You and Your Clients
• Pet Photography Intro Q&A
• Creating a Market: Dog Days of Summer
• Educating Clients about Dog Days
• Dog Days Q&A
• Props and Backgrounds for Pet Photography
• Prepping Q&A
• Studio Shoot: Two Dogs with Studio Lights
• Studio Shoot: One Dog with Studio Lights
• Studio Shoot: One Dog with Natural Light
• Studio Shoot: Two Dogs with Chair
• Review of Yesterday's Images
• Relationship Marketing
• Events & Limited Editions
• Sales Session with ProSelect
• Pricing Structure
• On-Location Shoot: Puppies on a Chair
• On-Location Shoot: Mother and Children
• On-Location Shoot: Children with Puppies
• On-Location Shoot: Owner with Puppies
• On-Location Shoot: Adult Dogs
• On-Location Shoot: Family Portrait
• Introduction to V Gallery Postproduction
• Creating and Using Actions
• Basic Retouching
• Making and Using Templates
• Making and Using Overlays
• V Gallery Workflow
• General and Postprocessing Q&A
• In the Doghouse: Work, Life, and Marriage
• 12:45 pm - Dog Days Shoot: Bichon-Poodle Mix, "Zeus"
• 1:00 pm - Dog Days Shoot: Cat, "Terry"
• Dog Days Shoot: Lab-Great Pyrenees Mix, "Jackson"
• Dog Days Shoot: Boxer-American Pit Bull Mix, "Muko"
• Dog Days Shoot: Part-Maltese Mix, "Teddy"
• Dog Days Shoot: Blue and Gold Macaw, "Tiko"
• Dog Days Shoot: Gila Monster, "Clive"
• Dog Days Shoot Q&A
• Giving Your Passion a Purpose