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Pet Photographer in Barnet
Pet portrait photography in Barnet, dogs, cats, puppies and small pets photographed with patience, treats and a genuine love of animals.
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Studio in Northwood HA6, we travel to you · weddings from £750 · free consultation
Serving Barnet
Sessions for Barnet pets and their owners
Dog bookings in Barnet get walked, not arranged. Oak Hill Park in East Barnet has enough open lawn for an animal to run flat out and enough sheltered edge for an anxious one to stay near us, and Finchley, Whetstone and Mill Hill are treated identically.
Be straight with us about recall. A long line trailing outside the frame costs nothing at all and takes away the single genuine risk. A dog that worries about bikes or traffic gets photographed in the quieter reaches of the park instead. Anything else that unsettles them is useful to hear at the booking stage.
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What we offer
Pet photography in Barnet
Welcoming Studio
Forty-five minutes divided into short spells with rests. Bring the treats that really do hold attention.
Prints & Wall Art
Dark coats rimmed from behind, so fur keeps an edge instead of flattening out.
Local and experienced
Why owners across London choose us
Forty-five minutes is the usual span, which outlasts most dogs' patience, so it gets divided into short spells with rests dividing them. Bring whatever food genuinely interests them, not the everyday stuff. A towel and some water waiting in the car help.
Dark-coated animals are the case that alters the method. Light is placed behind or off to one side, which puts a rim along the coat and holds detail in the face rather than letting the whole thing collapse into a shape.
Recent work
Dogs, cats and small pets we have photographed
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Pet Photographer in Barnet, FAQs
Sooner than you might expect. We keep things moving quickly so you are not waiting long. When your edited gallery is ready, you can view, share and choose your favourites, and we will gladly help Barnet clients select prints, frames or canvases for the wall.
We are at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6. Very few Barnet dog sessions begin at that address, though. We come out and work outdoors, on ground the animal covers anyway. Where the studio does win is with cats, rabbits and other small creatures, which turn up in a carrier and are much simpler to handle in a room with walls than out in the open.
Of course you can. Portraits of owners with their pets are among the most moving we make for families in Barnet. You are welcome in the frame, showing the bond between you, or just out of shot keeping your animal calm and looking our way.
Both, and the animal makes the choice. A dog is nearly always better served outside, around Barnet, on ground it knows, since familiar scent calms one faster than any coaxing indoors will. Rabbits, cats and elderly dogs short on stamina do better at Northwood, where light stays constant and nobody ends up chasing anything across a field.
Certainly. We regularly photograph two or more pets from the same Barnet home, both as a group and individually. Cats and dogs together are no trouble, though it takes patience to catch everyone at the right moment. An extra pair of hands per animal always helps.
Serving Barnet
A pet photographer near Barnet
As a London pet photographer, we know Barnet and the towns around it well. It sits close to Enfield and Brent, which we cover too. Getting to you in Barnet is quick from our Northwood studio, with no travel charge locally.
A leafy north London borough centred on the historic market town of Chipping Barnet, site of the decisive 1471 Battle of Barnet. High Barnet is the northern terminus of the Northern line. Sessions on location near Barnet often use Oak Hill Park in East Barnet, with The Hadley Highstone monument at Monken Hadley marking the Battle of Barnet close at hand.
More in Barnet
More photography services in Barnet
The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Barnet. Explore the rest: We also cover pet photography across London, including Kingston upon Thames, Tower Hamlets, Haringey, Kensington and Chelsea, Bexley and Ealing.
A borough this leafy is walked by a great many dogs, and that shows up in the pictures in one specific way. An animal on ground it covers most weeks behaves like itself from the first minute, whereas one taken somewhere unfamiliar spends the opening stretch reading the place instead of looking at anybody. Oak Hill Park in East Barnet suits this precisely because it is ordinary to so many households nearby, and it still has open ground for speed and edges for a worried animal to keep close to. What people want back is recognition. The frames that get kept are the ones where the household says the name of the expression out loud, and those come from letting the dog get on with what it came to do rather than arranging it. Coat darkness is the genuine technical hurdle, and it is an eye problem before it is an exposure problem. A dark face gives autofocus almost nothing to fix on, and a brow shades the eyes further still, so the light has to arrive low enough to reach under it. First thing, along a lawn's open edge, that is exactly what arrives; high sun later on delivers the reverse. Two dogs together are worth planning for separately, since betting a session on both facing the same way at the same instant rarely pays. Photographing them singly first and as a pair afterwards gets you both without the gamble.
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How it works
On-location photography in Barnet
Barnet is outside easy reach of our Northwood studio, so we bring the shoot to you. Weddings, events, team headshots, branding and product work are all photographed on location, with lighting brought in as needed. If you would rather use the studio you are very welcome.
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