This Asheville pet photographer session y’all!!! It was the cutest and most unique thing I’ve done in a long time and I’m so glad that I did! Stark was a perfect little puppy model and his sweet family was a delight to work with.
As you know, I have photographed hundreds of newborn human babies, so when my friends told me they were picking up their 8 week old German shepherd puppy and asked me to photograph him as soon as they got home, I LOVED the idea and said YES! Photographing pets is not something that I advertise as an Asheville photographer, though when families or couples want to incorporate their pets into their photography sessions or weddings photos here in Asheville, I always LOVE the idea and I LOVE the dynamic that it adds to the photos. Knowing that Puppy Stark was arriving soon and was still in his newborn phase, I knew that I could use many of the skills I have learned for newborn photography and create some beautiful photos with him as the main subject. Really though, how could a photographer go wrong with good light and a sweet adorable puppy?
When I arrived at Stark’s house it was pouring rain and he was playing on the porch with his parents. After greetings and me loving on him for a few minutes, we decided a bath was in order to clean him up a bit. I loved that he needed a bath as it gave me an opportunity to incorporate some lifestyle photography into his newborn puppy session, too. Any baby’s first bath is a special time, and I was so happy that I was there to document it as an Asheville pet photographer!
Since Stark was perfectly clean and blown dry, had a full belly, and was sleepy, we got right to work with the posed photos of him by himself. He was truly in a deep sleep and let me move him and pose him any way I wanted to. Of course his lack of wide shoulder bones made swaddling him more of a challenge, and his longer body made him fill my basket a bit more. Overall though, it was just as I had imagined, he acted and posed just like a newborn human baby! I loved it!
After puppy photos of Stark on his own, I incorporated his Mommies for some of my classic family photography shots. For these photos he woke up and shared a bit of his personality with us, just like most human babies do! He was alert, looked right at his Mommies, and snuggled in with them so naturally. I loved every minute of it!
Stark was a wonderful subject for my first newborn puppy shoot in Asheville as an Asheville pet photographer and brought me out of my normal routine. For that I am thankful, and who knows, maybe you’ll see more puppy photography sessions like this in the future?
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