My sister had a beagle named Fred; he was just a ball of fun.  He could talk anyone out of their lunch with just his eyes.  And what an affectionate guy.  Unfortunately, he came to the end of his time.  One evening my sister and I were sitting around the table and looking family photos.  When my sister saw his picture, she broke out a terrific smile.  That’s when it occurred to me that a lot of people would love to have a professional type portrait of their best friend.  Something that would make them smile every time they passed by.  I love pets and photography (been doing it for literally decades), so an enterprise was born.

Quality example

It hard to see what a large high-quality print looks like on a computer monitor, much less a small phone screen.  You can experiment with this yourself.  Use your phone to take a picture of your pet so she/he fills the frame like the images at the bottom below. Then blow up the eye to the same size as the eyes below on the left. (You may have to transfer the image to a computer in order to be able to blow it up enough.).  How do they compare?

Below an example we did.  It looks pretty extreme but that’s the difference between shooing with studio lights/equipment with a large format camera versus a quick shoot with room lighting with a cell phone camera (this one shot with an iPhone 15 plus). Of course, if you are just going to look a photo of your best friend on your cell phone screen then the phone camera makes perfectly fine photos.