Puppy Photoshoot

My last shift at the San Francisco SPCA was very interesting. I got assigned new puppies which consisted of two Shepard mixes and one Labrador mix. Two boys and one girl, their names were Earl, Eugene, and Fawn. As I was playing with them another volunteer who takes the pictures for their bio's came and asked me and another volunteer to help take pictures of puppies. We went to the photo room with the three puppies and helped to get the puppies to focus on the cameras. After that she asked if we would help get all the other puppies which were a total of fourteen and we said yes. I helped with all the puppies and they ranged from chihuahuas to dachshunds and to terriers. They were all adorable and really fluffy. Then I helped the photographer get three "teenage" dogs which were ten months old. They were very rowdy and extremely energetic but we got their pictures. This continued for a total of three hours and we got a total of seventeen pictures of the puppies and teenagers. We got a lot done and at the end we were exhausted. It was a fun experience and the photographer even offered to teach me lessons on how to photograph the dogs. I'm going to find out more tomorrow when I go to my next class. I also learned that puppies and dark-colored dogs get a white background to stick out and white dogs get a darker background. There was also a two-year old dog named Monty whom only had three legs because she had one amputated. She was very easy to photograph because she stayed still and did not move around or whine. It was an overall good experience.