How to Shoot Dog Portraits: Fast Movements

Capturing a dog portrait is a unique challenge itself. It takes a huge amount of patience; be an animal person meaning take a moment to bond with your subject, limit distractions, uses treats and most importantly work with the right equipment.


To capture this dog portraiture I set up three lamps with different kinds of light shapers attached onto the lamp.

My main light was a Siros 800S attached to our Satellite Staro. I placed the Satellite Staro coming from above shining down onto the dog.

The strongly center-oriented diffuser makes the light more brilliant and interesting than that of a homogeneously illuminated softbox.

It made the dogs fur look very shiny and beautiful.
Using the combination of Siros 800 S and Satellie Staro was a brilliant combination; I was able to work with lower light, get a fast flash duration and freeze the motion.

My other two lights were two Siros 400S attached to our 30 x 120 Stripsoftboxes. They created my wanted backlight.


Obviously I set all Siros on speed mode with the help of our bronControl app.

It was a challenge, but with all the help I had one stunning shoot, lots of fun and was satisfied with my results.