Puppy growth photos
A puppy is the fastest transformation most people will ever photograph — and the one with the shortest window. Nine months in, the change is done, and whatever you took is what you have.
01
Photograph them against something fixed
A dog gets bigger, so a photograph of the dog alone only shows the frame filling up. Include something that does not change — the same chair, the same doorway, the same step — and the scale becomes obvious instead of implied.
02
Get the camera down to their height
Shot from standing, a puppy is a shape on the floor and stays one. At their eye level the proportions are legible, and it is the proportions — legs, muzzle, ears — that actually change.
03
Take it more often at the start
The first eight weeks change faster than the six months after them. A weekly photo early and a monthly photo later matches how the animal actually grows, rather than spacing shots evenly across a curve that is not even.
Weekly, then monthly
Start weekly while everything is changing, then drop to monthly once growth slows. The playback keeps its pace either way, because it is ordered by date rather than by how often you showed up.