Ron Schmidt | Loose Leashes

Ron Schmidt has captured the hearts of dog lovers worldwide. His colourful, creative and quirky photography can be found commercially and throughout the publishing and licensing industry and if you’re a fellow pet photographer, we have no doubt that you would instantly recognise his work.

WE DIVED INTO:

• How Ron got started

• How licensing works and what a licensing show is

• Working with an agent

• Approaching a buyer

• Shooting for your gallery

• Process for Ron’s concepts and working with schools

• Attending schools for promoting books

• Model calls

Claudio Piccoli | Claudio Piccoli Photographer

Claudio Piccoli is a name you may recognise, and whose beautiful, action dog photos you certainly will. He’s a Nikon School Master, author of the Personal Workflow book and teaches other aspiring photographers how to ace those incredible dogs in action shots.

JB Shepard | The Puptrait Studio

JB Shepard is a self-taught photographer and digital artist who walked away from a career in marketing and design to pursue his passion for creative pet portraiture. He is best known for his signature headshot style of dog photography and the whimsical paper hats that feature in many of his portraits.

Sarah McGraw | Sarah McGraw Photography

Sarah McGraw is a professional traveling pet photographer who specialises in natural, candid-style portraits. Her business has continued to evolve over the past decade and as of April 2019 she officially announced that she only be accepting commercial clients. We’re so excited to share with you all about this change and find out how this talented pet photographer is serving commercial clients and small businesses

Nicole Begley | Hair of the Dog

Nicole Begley requires no introduction. She’s the founder of the online community that we all know and love, the Hair of the Dog Blog and creator behind the online education membership for pet photographers at Hair of the Dog Academy. Today she joins us on the podcast for the second time, to dive deeper into business as a pet photographer, particularly pricing structures.

Claire Garrett | Petography

Multi-award winning photographer Claire Garrett of Petography in Perth, Australia, has been exclusively working with pets for 10 years now. She’s the author of Tails of Perth and incorporates a unique spin on traditional pet photography with her Haute and Hound photoshoots.

Mark Rossetto | Mark Rossetto Coaching

Australian photographer, Mark Rossetto is regarded as one of the world’s best photography business coaches. He started shooting in the UK, moved back to Australia to establish his dream studio where he shot 500 families per year. He has since sold his studio, which is still successful and now pours his heart and soul into coaching photographers. He mentored our recent guest, Sarah of Serata Equine Photography, showing her the steps to a 6 figure business within 18 months.. a common story among his students.

Today we asked Mark all about answering that question we are always faced with as photographers.. “how much is..” as well as so much more.

SARAH MOUNSEY | Serata Equestrian Photography

Sarah Mounsey of Serata Equestrian photography is in the first year of her business and has already turned over $150k! She offers something a little unique, with a rural studio to capture beautiful natural portraits of horses with their riders.

You can see from checking out her website that she spends time working on her business as well as in it, and that she’s a master at implementing what she learns!

CAT RACE | CatsDog Photography

Cat of CatsDog Photography has built a loyal fan base with her bright, colourful photography and even brighter personality. She launched her business back in 2013, growing it from a part-time venture to a full time career in just three months and six years later business is booming with a team of six members.

CRAIG BULLOCK | Furtography

Craig Bullock from Furtography in New Zealand, has been photographing pets for over 15 years, is a multi-award winning accredited master of photography, author of three bestselling books and the photographer behind the amazing Dog is Love series. He is New Zealand’s Portrait Photographer of the year and a Fuji X ambassador. In our interview he shares his experience with working with publishers for personal projects, and so much more!

IAIN SIM | Nice Chat, Let’s Book

Iain Sim from Nice Chat, Let’s Book shares all things Facebook Messenger Automation.

Coming at you this week with a mini episode: How to Sell Gift Vouchers? Caitlin is a big fan of selling gift vouchers with a hands-free, automated system, whilst Kirstie likes to create a special gift experience by presenting and packaging hers beautifully.

Tune in to hear the pros and cons of each approach and join the Club to listen to the full 45 minute deepdive podcast as we discuss how to make gift vouchers successful for your business this holiday season.

LUCI DUMAS | Insight Training for Photographers

Luci Dumas is a master photographer who specialises in heartfelt portraits and has been running a successful portrait business for 36 years. Her super power is selling multiple large portraits per client and she generating a consistent flow of new clients with her networking strategies.

Coming at you this week with a mini episode: What’s in our Camera Bags? Kirstie and Caitlin share their three favourite lenses for pet photography sessions - to watch the full episode, where we take you through EVERYTHING in our camera bags, just join the Club!

JAMIE PIPER | Cowbelly Photography

Jamie Piper of Cowbelly Photography has over fifteen years of experience working with editorial and commercial clients; everyone from pet insurance companies, to animal magazines, to dog food businesses. She specialises in creating modern, authentic images that help her clients get away from that stereotypical ‘stock photo’ look: a mission which led her to creating the Fetch Stock company. On top of all of this she also shares a tonne of eduction resources through her website Commercial Photographers’ Resources.

Our latest question of the week is bouncing off some recent discussions we’ve been having in the Member’s Only Mastermind Group on Facebook about implementing pre-paid Online Ordering Deposits. Caitlin created this strategy earlier this year and it’s been working really well (particularly for the Tails book sessions), so we wanted to share how you could also use this strategy to encourage action and orders for Online Galleries.

BETH PATTERSON | DAILY DOG TAG

Inspired by the love of dogs, Beth Patterson created the online space, Daily Dog Tag which focuses on professional photography, rescue and quality products for dogs and the people who love them. Over the last six years Daily Dog Tag has grown into one of the top - if not the number one - blogs showcasing gorgeous pet photography from around the world and in today’s interview, we asked Beth all about it.

Caroline M Wood helps photographers spend more time behind the camera and chasing their pets around, and less time chasing clients for signatures and payment. She specialises in bringing personal touch to automation and creating quiet business strategies to make any introverted heart sing!

Whether he’s shooting in his studio, or exploring the Scottish highlands on an outdoor adventure session, Ewan Cheyne of Mutley’s Snaps is the master at creating playful, quirky, personality-filled pet portraiture. In todays episode we spoke all about originality for pet photographers and more.

Allison Shamrell Pet Photography

Our guest today, Allison Shamrell of Allison Shamrell Photography and Professional Pooch shares how spoiling her clients has led to more bookings and higher sales as a pet photographer.