MICHAEL WEINBERG PHOTOGRAPHY • 570-561-2670 • 215-965-0785
SAMPLE ANIMAL PORTRAIT PHOTO IMAGE
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Model
Donning Raincoat at FlawlessPaws.com
About Flawless Paws:
Located in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, Flawless Paws is a full-service grooming salon for dogs and cats. The professional grooming services include: Ear cleaning and plucking • Nail trimming • Toothbrushing • Bathing / Shampooing • Flea treatments • De-shedding treatments • Breed-specific hair cuts and styling. We only use all-natural, tearless shampoos and safe, room temperature dryers and professional clipping equipment. No tranquilizers or sedatives are used, EVER! Prices vary depending on breed and coat condition. Please call us at 570-586-5151 or send an email (erica@flawlesspaws.com) for a price estimate.
Michael Weinberg of Scranton and Clarks Summit, specializes in Weddings, Events, Portraits and Commercial Photography. This photo features a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (not to be confused with a cocker spaniel or American spaniel) with big delicious eyes and cute snout, modeling a yellow raincoat.
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About King Charles Spaniels (not cocker spaniels)
from www.ckcsc.org
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a delightfully affectionate, playful, intelligent little dog that repays his owner’s care and attention with an endearing devotion. Cavaliers are not kennel dogs. Because of four hundred years of close contact with their owners and their development as lap dogs, they make wonderful companions. They are happy, outgoing, loving little dogs who want to love you and be loved, to run and play in a safe place, and to sleep in a soft bed - preferably your bed, but they’re willing to negotiate on that point! They get along well with children, cats, and other dogs. Because young Cavalier puppies are so small, some breeders are reluctant to sell a puppy to a family with children under age five. Such families may find that an older puppy or grown dog may be more suitable. Cavalier puppies do not thrive when left all day without human companionship or the company of another animal. They are highly intelligent and require the same consistent and loving discipline as does a child. Cavaliers are active and sporting little dogs that require regular exercise. They have an instinct to give chase to just about anything that moves, and should either be on a leash or in a fenced yard or they will surely come to grief under the wheels of a car. Because Cavaliers never become “street-wise,” some Cavalier breeders require a fenced yard as a prerequisite for Cavalier ownership. While Cavaliers are clean, intelligent, and easy to groom and train, they do shed, occasionally chew things, and sometimes forget their manners by barking, making a puddle, and so on. In other words, they really are first and always dogs, in spite of their ethereal faces!
Random thoughts about the art of photojournalistic wedding photography. Take lots of shots.... lots of candid shots. Regardless of using film or digital understand how to get the correct exposures to get the best, brightest, most colorful results. Working in bright sunlight or in any unusual lighting situation, it is essential to be patient and to find a position to have natural light working for you. Capture the highlights on the faces of both the bride and the groom and the entire wedding party. Be aware of skin and hair and soft shadows that add subtle contrast, making the romantic look. Be careful of harsh shadows and sun - change positions carefully and often to get the light is just the right spot. Illuimination is the key. And don't forget, it is always important to be spontaneous; to have fun and to keep a lively sense of humor.
About shooting family photos and portraits at weddings. Make sure You can see everyone's face; that the shot is well lit, everyone is facing the camera and no-one is doing the bunny ears or doing something foolish. It is assumed that someone has their eyes closed. Ask your audience to "close their eyes and open them when I say pizza" wait an extra count of one before snapping the shutter and hopefully , then they will show their gorgeous and attentive eyes. These are the shots that folks want most for their prints, framed photographs and wedding albums.
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and they may not be used without the expressed permission of the owner, Photographer Michael Weinberg.
PA professional photographer/graphic artist since 1989, Michael Weinberg has produced a wide variety of materials, both artistic and technical, for print and web publications, for business, industries and non-profit organizations. Over the years and decades, he has worked hard to sharpen and strengthen my photographic craft and skills, I have formulated several objectives which help to guide me in providing the high quality photography services essential to my clients.
REVEALING HIDDEN BEAUTY
As a PA photographer and artist, his primary goal is to reveal the hidden beauty and special characteristics in all that is captured with the camera’s lens; to find a way to stop time in its tracks, for one incredibly short moment; to provide the viewer a unique perspecitive of nature which surrounds and affects us; to bring out all that is interesting, expressive, colorful, entertaining and beautiful in the complex world around us.
CLEAR, CLEAN, COLORFUL
We have great respect for photographers who specialize in creating awe inspiring special effects, but my technical emphasis is in producing clear, clean and colorful images; to use the advanced technology at my disposal to produce the finest, best composed and best exposed photographs possible; crisply focused features with warm, realistic hues, tones and saturations. In short, Michael Weinberg wants to capture all that is photographed at the best angle and in the best light; he always wants to have, of everything he captures, the best side showing.