What makes a photograph work
Get low. Go outside.
Daylight, no flash
Near a window, or outdoors on an overcast day. Flash flattens the fur and kills the colour in their eyes, which is the part I need most.
Down at their level
Crouch until the camera is at their eye height. Photographs taken from standing make every dog look like a snout.
Three to five, not thirty
One clear head-on, one of the whole body, and one you simply love. Up to five. I work from all of them at once.
For a house, cross the street
Stand on the far kerb at midday, square to the front door, with no cars parked in front. One of the whole house, one of the door.
Send the originals
Straight from the camera roll. Screenshots and anything sent through a group text arrive too small to paint from.
The intake
The photographs.
Use the same email at the checkout, so I can match the photographs to your order. The address is where the finished portrait goes.