The love between a pet and its owner is really special. It brings out strong feelings and makes memories that last a long time. When taking pictures of this special bond, it's important to capture the real emotions. Challenge number 3 of Empower is called connections. In this challenge we wanted to see images showcasing those relationships in a natural way. We were blown away with the variety in the submissions, the storytelling and emotional content was wonderful.  Well done to our top 10, this set of images beautifully showcase life with our pets beside us. - Charlotte & Craig ..read more

Framing your subject is a fantastic, no-mistaking way to bring attention straight to your subject. At the same time, framing allows you to introduce extra eye candy to the image in the form of colour, texture and an impression of place and purpose. You can frame your subject in so many ways by using items in the foreground or background, nature or urban settings, doorways, foliage - the options are endless! Framing is a fantastic way to draw attention to the subject and as we kick off with the first Emerge challenge, that is what we are looking for. Armed with the challenge brief, an instructi ..read more

Side light can be difficult to get to grips with, but there are ways to use this direction of light to create images with huge impact. There is impact aplenty with this weeks top 10 for the second challenge of Empower, On the Side. Huge congratulations to the photographers who made it this week, what an incredible, emotive and inspiring set of images. Charlotte & Craig ? ? ✨ Chantal Levesque | Chantal Levesque Photo Christel Wellens | Fotografie Christel Wellens Diane Gollowitzer | Dogs in Focus Photography Jeff Rooney | Hightail It Photography Jenny Stokes | Smooches and Pooches Phot ..read more

I'm Immie Keizer, living in Stavoren with my husband and two Flatcoated Retrievers, Happy and her daughter Joy. I have my own dog grooming salon and since 2019 I'm active as a dog photographer and I also do cakesmash photoshoots. I have learned a lot since I became a member of Unleashed Education about dog photography. Tell us a bit about you? I have a dog grooming salon and pet photography business. In my spare time I train my two flatcoats for working tests and hunting dog tests. I also show my dogs regularly and breed a litter once every 2-3 years under the kennel name Pepper's ..read more

Welcome to the first top 10 of our brand new challenge based course,  Empower! The final in the Unleashed Challenges series. We're back with 12 fresh new challenges and we're kicking things off with a composition based challenge, Along the Lines. Leading lines are a powerful compositional technique in photography. They are created by the inclusion of visual elements within a photograph that guide the viewer's eyes toward a specific point of interest, drawing attention to the main subject and creating a sense of depth, and even movement, in the image.  In Along the Lines we take ..read more

With Craig Turner-Bullock Kim was the winner of the November 2022 Edit My Photo challenge in the Unleashed Education community. As the winner of the challenge, Kim submitted this gorgeous image the she took during Barkelona, an out of this world pet photography retreat held in Spain. The dog is beautifully posed looking out of the window contemplating his next more! In the edit, I’ll be focussing on shaping the light, bringing out texture in the dogs fur and really enhancing the warmth present in the light. Feel free to follow along from start to finish - or Fast Track through the tutorial usi ..read more

By Charlotte Reeves Reddish staining on white fur can be unsightly in dog photos, but what's the best way to tone it down? Photoshop has the most effective tool for dealing with this and it can be done in less than a minute - let me show you how! If you like these quick tutorials, you'll love our premium Unleashed Edits - full start-to-finish editing tutorials in Lightroom and Photoshop. These are available in our membership (along with a tonne of amazing pet photography education). We hope to see you there ..read more

Welcome to another entry in our series of jargon-busting posts, aimed at those of you just starting out in your photography journeys. In this series, we’ll be attempting to demystify some terms that you’ll hear being bandied about in photography circles that might leave you scratching your head. These are concepts it will help you to be familiar with and which we’ll be explaining in broad terms in order to develop a general understanding, without getting bogged down in the technicalities. This time, we’re exploring what is meant by a “stop” of light, how this helps us set exposure, and why it ..read more

By Craig Turner-Bullock Sensor spots are unavoidable, all photographers have to deal with them at some stage. Gone untreated when you edit your images, they will be something that stop your work from elevating to a higher standard. They are really easy to see and even easier to remove. Even so, there is a tool in Lightroom that can make it even easier! Let's take a look... If you like these quick tutorials, you'll love our premium Unleashed Edits - full start-to-finish editing tutorials in Lightroom and Photoshop. These are available in our membership (along with a ton ..read more

By Charlotte Reeves If you're adding your watermark to a gallery of images one by one in Photoshop - you're doing it wrong! ? Find out how to use the power of batch-processing in Lightroom Classic, by setting up watermark presets in your export presets. It doesn't take long to set up and will save you a tonne of time in the long run! If you like these quick tutorials, you'll love our premium Unleashed Edits - full start-to-finish editing tutorials in Lightroom and Photoshop. These are available in our membership (along with a tonne of amazing pet photography education ..read more