Capturing the Cute Factor

Meet Lexi.

Everyone smiles when they see her, so let’s join Lexi on her walk with David Hancock, who took these images during the “Celebrate Your Life in Beautiful Images” class.

 Lexi is a terrier and does what she wants, but how can anyone ever get mad at that sweet face? Her cute factor added to the week’s assignment — Lexi clearly knows how to work it for the camera!

Every day Lexi goes for a walk with David, so he brought his camera along and found an angle just above Lexi’s eye level to show her expression. Next, he isolated Lexi in the frame to create a sense of intimacy. The result is an image that really captures Lexi’s personality.

First find your camera angle.
Then frame your shot.

Shoot. Review. Adapt. (Repeat.)

For the running shots of Lexi, David shot on burst-mode with auto-focus as he chased after her. The result is that Lexi got in about 45 minutes of exercise, and David came home with 110 shots to choose from for his assignment. Both of them were very happy!
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Would you like to have beautiful images like this that celebrate your daily life? Join Brit Hammer’s class!

– BPSOP Instructor- Brit Hammer

Brit teaches:
Celebrate Your Life in Beautiful Images Part 1
Celebrate Your Life in Beautiful Images Part 2

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