Unleashed Education Blog

Welcome to the first video in my new Edit My Photo series!

In my Learn Pet Photography Facebook group, we run monthly editing challenges. How it work...

By Charlotte Reeves

Photos of dogs running directly towards the camera are often hilarious and always incredibly popular, but as you may have discove...

Dog photography is challenging at the best of times, but that challenge quickly multiplies when you’re attempting to get that one perfect group shot w...

By Charlotte Reeves

Over many years of reviewing my student's images during private online mentoring and image critiques in the Unleashed Education P...

By Charlotte Reeves

Designing albums is just one of the extra skills often required when you are running a full service pet photography business.

My...

By Charlotte Reeves

Black dogs can look seriously stunning in photographs, however black is probably the most challenging of fur colours to capture.

By Charlotte Reeves

If you’re like most pet photographers, at some point you’ve struggled with setting the correct white balance of your images in th...

By Charlotte Reeves

Have you ever shot with backlight and ended up with flare in your image?

Flare occurs when direct sun hits the end glass element...

By Charlotte Reeves

Designing albums for my clients is something I love to do - there's just something special about a beautiful collection of images...

By Charlotte Reeves

We’re all guilty of it.

When it comes to social media, we only tend to share the highlights, the good stuff. And it’s only natur...

By Charlotte Reeves

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Adobe Photoshop's awesome Content-Aware Fill feature is nothing short of amazing and in this vi...

By Charlotte Reeves

In 2019 at the annual Mally Muster fundraising event for Brisbane dog rescue group Shamroq (Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute R...

When editing your images in Lightroom, if the dog has some white fur you can quickly and easily set the correct white balance with this simple trick.

By Charlotte Reeves

A question I see posted over and over again in online pet photography groups is this:

"What's the best lens for dog photography?...

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Back in 2017 at Barkjour in southern France (another out-of-this-world pet photography retreat), one of our attendees, Leslie, ...

By Charlotte Reeves

I was recently asked how I got my Photoshop looking so “simple” when it came to the tabs on the right hand side. Like so many thi...

In 2018 at the annual Mally Muster fundraising event for Brisbane rescue group Shamroq (Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute Rescue of Queensland), we ...

By Charlotte Reeves

Maybe (like me) your journey into professional pet photography started out with you photographing your own dogs. Also maybe (like...

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In this video, I share the one setting that will change your life when it comes t...

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In this super quick video, I demonstrate the quickest and easiest way I know to r...

Editing Quick Tip (well, I tried to make it quick!) of the day - using Photoshop's Auto Align Layers feature to make head swaps quicker and much easie...

By Charlotte Reeves

Pet photography is a super specialised field and with that comes specialised equipment and tools of the trade. Find out the five ...

By Charlotte Reeves

Taking your photography up a notch means understanding and using some common, but often overlooked, elements of composition. Rang...

By Charlotte Reeves

Often we specialise in pet photography because we relate to animals better than people, am-I-right? There will inevitably come a ...