Barkelona Day 2: Photo Session with Pruna and Boira
Every time I go to write a post about my photo sessions in Spain, I think "this photo session I'm writing about resulted in some of my favorite images." I guess I am lucky that way in that I probably have one image from each session that I can call a favorite. These two dogs Boira and Pruna definitely fall into this category. Pruna is a year old Spanish Water Dog and Boira was all puppy! She is a 5 month old Portuguese Water dog. Pruna had just gotten a haircut. Apparently her hair can look a lot like Boira's when it is long. This was my first time meeting a Spanish Water Dog and she was beautiful!
I really want to get a huge wall art piece of that photo of Boira. (and that is why these photos are LARGE. I didn't resize them as I usually do.) As a photographer, I take photos and I do have my favorites. That has nothing to do with the dog itself or even how the dog looks, it has to do with my ability as a photographer. I hope that makes sense. This image of Boira is one of those. I never really knew I was drawn to the color yellow but in photography, I am. It's been over a month now that I've been home from Spain and every time I see this photo of Boira, I still love it. I hope that feeling never goes away. I do look at the image and I can see things that aren't technically correct with it but I still love it and hey, I'm the photographer so that is my right! :)
Barkelona Day 2, 1st Photo Shoot
Our Barkelona workshop included a combination of classroom and on location photo sessions. In the morning both Nicole and Sam led classroom talks. Day 2 of Barkelona had 2 photo sessions. We did one inside the villa we were staying in and then in the evening we photographed several dogs outside and around the villa. I don't have the right words to describe how beautiful is was. There I met Forca, a chocolate lab. She is a trained therapy dog and she made me miss my man Moose. However unlike Moose, she posed perfectly for her portraits... but I'm getting ahead of myself. More on her in a bit! For the indoor photo session, my group started with Taila, a golden retriever / cocker spaniel mix. She was a little unsure of all of the attention she was getting but she posed beautifully. Even when we put her in the chair and in front of a chess set! She must've thought we were crazy. And we are: crazy dog photographer people. All of us!!
This 2nd photo is the amazing Kaylee Greer of Dog Breath Photography and a little behind the scenes of her setting up the shot of Taila. Ingrid is Taila's dog trainer giving her some instructions too.
Our next model was a dog that caught my attention when she arrived. Her name is Pepa and she's an English Bulldog. In all my years of dog walking, I've never met a bulldog until April 16, 2016 and I had to go all the way to Spain to do it! Pepa was a great model and even tolerated more of our crazy dog photographer antics... see below!
We then moved outside and photographed a jack russell terrier. I hate to say this but there were two JRTs and I'm not sure if this is Elsa or Teo.
We took a short break after photographing all these cuties and then we had more classroom work. After an early dinner, 4 dogs came to our villa to be photographed during our student led shoot. That's where I met Forca. Stayed tuned for the next blog post....