Pet Photography Challenge Using Leading Lines — BARKography

I’m a member of Unleashed Education, the online mecca for pet photography education developed by Charlotte Reeves and Craig Turner-Bullock. If you’re a photographer and would like to improve your knowledge, I highly recommend this group.

If you’re a client and you’re reading this, I am a member of this group so that I can continue to grow and learn. I always want to improve my photography skills.

I am participating in their third pet photography challenge called Empower.

For the next 6 months, we will be given a topic every 2 weeks and we have to create our vision using a pet and whatever the topic is.

The first challenge for Empower was “Along the Lines.” Here is the challenge brief from their website: “Create an image that uses that compositional technique of leading lines to draw attention to the subject. The line or lines may be straight or curved, with special consideration given to how the eye moves around the image, otherwise known as image flow.”

I wanted to participate in Empower for many reasons and I posted about this on my Instagram. Here’s the link to the post and a cute photo of my dog Jeff with some subtle leading lines (yet another location and idea I had): Jeff on Instagram. Feel free to give me a follow!

There are certain types of compositional aspects in photography that I love and leading lines are one of them. But in looking back at my own work, I don’t use them very often. And they are everywhere.

I started to do some research on leading lines and I saw this photo by Ritesh Saini. I was immediately drawn to it. I wanted to try and recreate something similar to this with a dog.