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049: Josh Norem - The Pet FurrTographer

January 30, 2017 Raymond Hatfield
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Josh Norem is a world class award winning pet photographer from San Francisco California specializing in dogs and cats. Josh shares some of his best tips to get started photographing pets and marketing yourself to pet owners.

In Todays Interview You'll Learn

  • How Josh got his start in photography and how he started shooting animals

  • Some of the technical challenges of photographing animals

  • Why a shallow depth of field can take be more distracting in pet photos

  • One reason Josh thinks its easier to photograph animals than it is people

  • Some tricks to getting animals comfortable in front of the camera

  • Why Josh has a different lighting set up for cats and for dogs

  • Hot to capture an animals personality in photographs

  • How to get some action shots of dogs running

  • Why Josh doesn't use a shot list to get photos of the animals

  • Some tools Josh uses to get an animals attention

  • The best time of day to shoot dog portraits

  • How Josh uses flash to bounce lights for great photos of cats

  • The questions Josh asks pet owners before taking their pets photos

  • How To market your pet photography business

  • How to get business right away when youre getting started

  • How to much to charge for pet photography 

  • One of the biggest failures Josh made when first starting out

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Resources

  • Joshs Website

  • Joshs Facebook

  • Joshs Instagram

  • Nikon D810

  • Nikon 24-70 2.8

  • Nikon 24mm 1.4

  • Nikon 105mm 2.8

  • Nikon 70-200 2.8

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