YNP #052: How to Take Better Photos of Your Dog with Allison Shamrell
Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog
Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We all have a hundred (ok, ok hundreds) of photos of our dog. But how many are keepers? If you are anything like me you have 600 pictures and 2 end up as keepers
In this episode, let’s welcome Allison Shamrell to give us all her best tips on how to get better photos of your dog, even if all you have is a cell phone!
This is a fun episode and I learned so much from Allison and I know you will too!
What we talk about:
- How to take better photos with just your cell phone
- What obedience commands will come in handy
- How to take a great action shot
You can learn even more from Allison here:
Allison’s Free Facebook Group: How to Take Better Photos of Your Dog
Allison’s website: Allison Shamrell Pet Photography
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your |
| 0:16.8 | host Debbie Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 52 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today we're going to do |
| 0:36.4 | something a little different because you and I are going to learn together. |
| 0:39.9 | This episode marks the first interview that I've ever had on this podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm very excited because I had a lot of fun doing it. |
| 0:50.0 | So we're not even going to talk about dog behavior or dog training today. |
| 0:53.3 | What we're going to talk about is how to take better photos of your dog. |
| 0:59.6 | Because who doesn't want to know how to do that? And the best part is, is we're going to learn even if you only |
| 1:06.2 | have a cell phone. So we're going to hear from Allison Shamrail today. She is a pet |
| 1:11.4 | photographer from San Diego and she's going to give us the best |
| 1:16.1 | tip she has for us to go and take those amazing photos of our dog. Let's just jump right on in to the interview. So hi Allison, how |
| 1:29.0 | are you? Oh my gosh I'm great, how are you? Good, I'm so happy that you're here. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm so happy that you reached out to me |
| 1:36.0 | because this topic is going to be so much fun |
| 1:40.0 | and something that we all need. |
| 1:43.0 | So Allison's going to be talking to us today |
| 1:45.3 | about how to take better pictures of your dog. |
| 1:49.9 | Because I don't know about you, but I'll have like a hundred pictures of my dog and like two are usable and I feel like I feel like I got them out of sheer luck and out of just sheer like you know taking 100 pictures. |
| 2:03.0 | So I'm excited personally, I'm going to be taking notes myself. |
| 2:06.9 | But first, tell us how you got into this, |
| 2:09.8 | how you got into pet photography, |
| 2:11.7 | like what's your journey? how did you end up here yeah |
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