Photographing Black dogs (and cats)

Thanks for the tips on this, had trouble in the past shooting dark subjects and this helps. Can't wait to try it

Some good tips here. Thanks folks.

We have a mostly black Staffordshire Bull Terrier and although I've got a couple of great shots of her indoors with flash when she's having a rare quieter moment, I've found it really difficult to nail focus on her when she's out running around in the park!

Photographing a black dog is like photographing a groom in a black suit -- bump your exposure up +2/3

Hello people,
Is this photo good enough? If not, please tell what do you think must be altered (for the next time)?

Dogs - People - Objects... correct exposure can and does help, but in the end, for all black subjects, it is about how the light is hitting them that makes or breaks a picture.

The client kept asking me.. how are you going to take a picture of a black horse on black?

It's about the light.

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These are great!

Gatorboy wrote in post #16150299
Photographing a black dog is like photographing a groom in a black suit -- bump your exposure up +2/3

And hope you don't blow out the white spots on its coat!

Good post.

Just bumping an informative thread

thanks for the tips

New to the site. this is my second post...

like shooting cats. pretty good at it I'd say...

For me, when shooting black dogs, or any other black object for that matter, I take an incedent light reading with my handheld meter and drop the exposure 1/3-1/2 stop.

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you think black is hard black and white is harder