Well, first I must apologize for missing yesterday’s 365 Photo Project post! I always add this post at the end of the day after dinner. Yesterday, while preparing dinner, I burned several fingers, so much so that we spent the rest of the evening trying to decide if I needed to go to the emergency room. After two hours of trying everything we could find online, just as I was about ready to go ahead and give in on the emergency room, the pain subsided. Needless to say, I didn’t get any typing done!
So today was extra busy! Today we also had a photo assignment as part of our work as Official Apartment Guide pet bloggers. Tomorrow you’ll see our post about pet-friendly Austin but, today, I wanted to show you the behind-the-scenes photos from our shoot.
We headed to Austin’s Lady Bird Lake (if you haven’t been to Austin for a while, this was previously Town Lake). Along Auditorium Shores is a huge off-leash area that’s always filled with dogs. Today was no exception, even though preparations were underway for tomorrow’s fireworks show at the same spot.
For tomorrow’s post, part of a series of similar posts that Apartment Guide bloggers have produced called “Welcome Mat,” we needed to incorporate a yoga mat personalized with the Apartment Guide logo in the shot.
Although you might not often have a seven-foot-long mat to include in your photos, it’s easy and fun to put a sign into your photos, a great shot to have if you’ll be making a slideshow or any kind of “story” with your photos.
Unlike other types of dog photography, where it’s often great to get an angle on your subject, you might want to play around with the angle you shoot the sign from to avoid distortion. We took the mat up on the bridge to get a shot of the lake and, at first, shot it from an angle:
I decided to shoot it from directly in front of the mat, though, and I’m glad I did. The photo below shows less distortion of the letters:
Tomorrow you’ll be able to see the full post with different photos we shot at dog-friendly locations!
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