We all know that canines are the most effective folks—however what in regards to the folks behind the canines, those who assist shelter pooches discover their ceaselessly houses?
That’s the place Dog Breath is available in. The Dog Breath Foundation is a non-profit with a mission: to make use of the ability of pictures to present a voice to homeless and deserted canines. It was based by Kaylee Greer, a pet photographer whose skills have made her one of the sought-after “dogtographers” on the planet.
An elite ‘dogtographer’
Through her digital camera lens, Kaylee Greer captures the distinctive spirit and whimsy of her canine topics. Her skills have earned her worldwide acclaim as a frontrunner in animal pictures. Her work has graced the covers of books, magazines, product packaging, greeting playing cards, and promoting campaigns all through the industrial pet business. She’s even the star of National Geographic WILD’s three-part TV miniseries Pupparazzi, which chronicles her adventures in photographing shelter canines throughout America.
But fame has by no means been Greer’s focus. She and her manufacturing workforce—which incorporates videographers Emily Mender, Doug Young, and photographer Sam Haddix—spend most of their time and power organizing picture shoots for shelter canines in want. In truth, Greer’s journey to turning into a well-known pet photographer started at her native canine shelter.
“I didn’t even consider photography until I was volunteering,” Greer explains. “I was just walking a dog and doing whatever I could to make a difference. That was when I realized, ‘Oh my God, I think a photograph really could have the power to change a dog’s life.’”
Since then, Greer has been snapping pics of shelter canines every time she will be able to. Her purpose is all the time to make use of pictures to attach unhoused pets to caring, everlasting house owners. But regardless of her continued success, Greer hasn’t been fairly happy with the affect of her work.
“I really wanted to affect more lives,” Greer explains. “There are hundreds of thousands of dogs in the shelter system. I wondered, ‘How can we make a bigger impact? How can we cause a ripple effect that can continue exponentially?’ Well, most shelters don’t have photography training. Why don’t I teach them what I know?”
No shock, then, that the Dog Breath workforce has an audacious undertaking in thoughts to just do that…
Hitting the highway
The Greatest Adventure is a highway journey mission throughout America to search out in-need canines with unbelievable tales. With assist from shelter employees and volunteers, Greer and her workforce will take adoptable canines out of their cages for one unbelievable day of sightseeing. They’ll hike up mountains, swim in lakes, and run by forests, all to get a one-of-a-kind picture that may assist that canine get adopted. And Frame.io could be very proud to be one of many sponsors serving to to make this occur.
Throughout this journey, the workforce will doc their course of and push their journey out to the world by social media, movies, weblog posts, and editorials. It’s a reasonably intense manufacturing schedule that features:
- An eight-episode YouTube sequence (roughly half-hour every) that includes a cross-country highway journey visiting animal shelters throughout the United States.
- Multiple tv and editorial spots.
- A retrospective e book that includes the story of The Greatest Adventure and the wonderful pictures captured alongside the best way.
- A powerful and constant presence on social media.
- Show-stopping picture and video belongings to create consciousness round every shelter they go to and closely promote their chosen ‘adventure dog.’
On high of all this, the workforce will even be coaching volunteer employees at each shelter they go to. They’ll discover ways to {photograph} canines in Greer’s whimsical trademark type, giving their canines the most effective probability at discovering a brand new house. They’re even giving out Canon-sponsored camera-and-lens kits to each shelter they go to on their journey!
The proper instruments for the job
With such an intense social media schedule and a workforce unfold throughout the US, Dog Breath determined very early on that Frame.io could be the most effective basis for the job, so every of the workforce have been geared up with Frame.io Version 4 accounts. It’s one thing that editor and videographer Doug Young is happy about.
“Even before discovering Frame.io, I was looking for solutions for key-wording my videos,” Young tells me. “Version 4’s Metadata and Collections feature makes it easy if I need to find a shot of a particular dog or to keep things organized between cameras and drones. That’s going to save me a lot of time—and time is probably going to be my limiting factor.”
Sam Haddix, Dog Breath’s lighting and pictures professional, is wanting ahead to utilizing Version 4’s mobile app features. He is aware of that “Kaylee is going to love opening her phone and making notes right in the Frame.io app. She won’t have to get on a computer to open the software. It’s going to be very easy for her to answer questions and make decisions, which I think is awesome.”
Greer agrees. “It’s hard when you’re working in a moving RV,” she says. “Plates are flying, things are moving around… I don’t like to get out any heavy-duty technology when we’re on the road like that. But now I can pop open my phone while I’m sitting in the passenger’s seat and actually get my work done through Frame.io mobile.”
Super-fast help for a cross-country workforce
Uploading media is just not all the time simple when your shoot is a nine-month-long highway journey throughout the United States. You’re not all the time going to have the time or skill to hook up arduous drives and obtain footage. That’s why the workforce has chosen to lean on Frame.io’s Atomos integration so as to add Camera to Cloud to their workflows.
C2C integration is necessary to Dog Breath as a result of lots of the work concerned in The Greatest Adventure can be handed off to Charles F. MacDonald, a Washington D.C.-based editor, and Jay Frisco, a Berklee-based sound designer. Both can be dealing with a lot of The Greatest Adventure’s post-production wants.
Greer and firm are additionally sharing media with Nichole Marsh, a graphic designer answerable for compiling a retrospective e book about The Greatest Adventure. All three of those workforce members are plugged into The Greatest Adventure remotely through Frame.io. And with Camera to Cloud, they’ll get their media immediately.
“This workflow is ten times faster than if I was doing it manually,” Young explains. “I used to have to offload SD cards, convert them to proxies, and upload them to a server. And with our shaky internet access, that could get interrupted and cause all kinds of trouble.”
This workflow is ten occasions quicker than if I used to be doing it manually.
“With C2C, all I have to do is record on my camera and hit stop. Then I can watch my files upload right on the Atomos. Even if I’m shooting in a remote area, the Camera to Cloud system creates a queue that will start uploading when I connect to the internet again. It’s way easier than I expected. It really simplifies my workflow.”
Here are shelter canine Vigo’s adoption images earlier than and after Dog Breath’s Greatest Adventure.
One shelter at a time
The closing part of The Greatest Adventure is likely to be a very powerful: Dog Breath desires to ultimately create long-term coaching supplies that may be hosted on-line and ultimately distributed to shelters.
“In the future, we want to put photography, graphic design, and illustration all into a PDF with our branding which will live forever in shelters across the world,” Haddix says. “The Greatest Adventure isn’t just a video project. There’s photo, sound, graphic design, and a physical book that we’re creating. So having everything and being able to organize it all in one spot is really important.”
“Plus, we’re on limited time frames,” Young provides. “When we’re driving, we can’t do a whole lot of work. Having those copies of files for everyone is great for time saving and simplicity, and it keeps us on our pretty rigorous timeline.”
Not having to fret in regards to the tech additionally frees Dog Breath up to focus on the true undertaking: the canines. Greer notes that when she’s working, she has “a million concerns. The dog may not like my camera, I might not like the lighting. What if we plan an epic trip and the dog isn’t comfortable with it? That’s the hard part of being a dog photographer, the ability to flex and know that the best-laid plans often go awry.”
“But I think things always shake out,” Greer provides. “Honestly, everything usually goes better than my expectations if I can just relax and roll with it.”
Rhett discovered his ceaselessly house proper after his Greatest Adventure!
Ongoing results
As Dog Breath embarks on The Greatest Adventure, Kaylee Greer and her workforce are proving {that a} {photograph} can do extra than simply seize a second—it might probably change a life. And by combining Greer’s expertise with tech help from Frame.io and its integrations, Dog Breath isn’t just serving to canines discover houses; they’re revolutionizing the best way shelters function.
Through their dedication, creativity, and a complete lot of coronary heart, this workforce is making a country-wide affect that can be felt lengthy after their highway journey ends. With each shelter they go to, each volunteer they practice, and each pup they {photograph}, Dog Breath is making the world just a little brighter, one wagging tail at a time.
Frame.io loves rescues! Meet just a few of the shelter canines adopted by members of the Frame.io workforce.
If you’d like so as to add your individual help to this trigger, you possibly can donate at The Greatest Adventure campaign page, the place you’ll discover some nice rewards in your generosity.
