Category Archives: Commercial work

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Commercial clients who hire Cowbelly Pet Photography for commercial assignments and image licensing

special project sneak-peek

July 7, 2009 – 11:55 pm

I haven’t been updating my blog much since returning home from California because I’ve been busy working on a couple of special commercial projects that I haven’t been able to post on. Both are nearing completion so I thought I would do a little sneak-peek to whet everyone’s whistle until I *can* divulge what they are. Super excited, so stay tuned!
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Cowbelly goes ‘studio’ with Libby and Parker

August 22, 2008 – 8:00 am

My very first shoot in the new studio yesterday! Actually, my very first studio shoot ever. Not bad for a total newbie, eh?

Parker the resident studio pup. Libby my client’s dog.

I’ll post and write more on studio stuff soon. But here is a sneak preview to whet your whistle. :-)

Parker. Shop dog. Fergie’s new buddy and stealer of Starbucks breakfast sandwiches. (Parker, I was eating that). He was my model for 5 minutes before Libby showed up. Dogs with furry faces are hard to photograph- in the studio is no exception I learned. 

Libby. My client’s super sweet (and extremely obedient!) lab mix pooch. I couldn’t have had a better dog as a newbie studio shooter. Libby is awesome. 

This shoot was for a small commercial job with both Libby and her mom, but I couldn’t resist taking some of just her alone. How cute is she? And I worried I wouldn’t be able to get dogs to smile in the studio! Pas de problem. YAY!

I decided to take some behind the scenes shots to show y’all, since I know you have been wanting to see my new studio. It’s a pretty amazing space. But remember, it isn’t all mine! I share it with 4 other amazing photographers who I will tell you about soon. I swear have learned more from them in the past couple of months than I have in the last 5 years combined! Look how good Libby was while I took these shots. I said “stay” and she stayed. Yay. 

Check out the photographer’s-dream cyclorama wall. I would have used it but the floor is duuurty right now. (Hence the reason for my shoes sitting just off the paper, so that I could walk on it without leaving footprints). Actually, Rocky and I rolled on a coat of primer yesterday after my shoot and after we get a coat or two of paint down it will be looking much better. I have another studio shoot mid-week next week and I may just use the cyc wall if the floor is looking pretty. There is lots of experimenting to do!

Happy Friday! Hope you all have a lovely weekend! :-)

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I am crazy: four shoots in one day!

May 5, 2008 – 5:16 pm

Yesterday I had FOUR photo shoots booked. One of them we rescheduled due to a skin infection (poor Murphy!), but the other three still happened. Now, I normally wouldn’t do more than one or two shoots in one day, but yesterday was special. See below.

The first shoot was for Lily- a private commission on Queen Anne, the second shoot was in Federal Way for a litter of NINE 7 1/2 week old Golden Retriever puppies (SO. CUTE.); the puppies I had been so desperately needing for my commercial project, and the last was for 5 dogs at Discovery Park in Magnolia- the very last and final commercial shoot for this particular project (yes, it’s still going on but I sent in the last of the deliverables late last night- Yippee!)

Yesterday was 7 hours straight of driving and photographing (with no assistant!) but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I love being a dog (and puppy) photographer!!

Now, you may think I may be taking it easy today but no, I’ve gotta go buy some Red Bull because this afternoon I am doing a very exciting editorial photo shoot. I have had some location/background ideas in my head for a long time and today is the day to finally try and get them on my camera, and in the coolest way with three of my favorite people, and possibly my favorite two dogs ever.

I promise to share more once I can release details on today’s shoot! And the commercial job as well.

AND, I will post photos as soon as I can! I’ve got a bunch to share!! Since I recently purchased a new external hard drive- badly needed as the admin mac computer is nearly full- I have made the full switch to shooting exclusively in RAW and I am surprised I am actually really liking it!

Happy Monday to all! :-)

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The ingredients of a commercial dog shoot

April 21, 2008 – 10:02 pm

2238 shots taken

428 emails exchanged

23 dog models

26 pet parents

1 creative director

1 marketing director

2 R/T plane tickets

1 soccer game

6 cans of red bull

12 gigs of memory cards

4 Canon camera batteries

2 lenses

1 apple laptop

4 locations

4 hours of off-camera flash held by 3 different people

18 hours on location

6 dogs on standby

2 canine ‘observers’

1 tireless mind-reading assistant

1 incredibly generous fan

1 modern condo

5 small world stories

1 30-minute lunch-break

38 saved voicemails

3 dogs recruited on site

2 volunteer model scouts

5 large bags of dog treats

2 cuz squeaky toys

20 doggy goody bags

plus

countless thank-yous

= 9 product packages

Think about that the next time you go to the store to buy your dog’s food. :-)

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