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Well I was taking pictures today of two of my breeders and come up with a few good ones, so I though I'd share:

I have this picture at about 3000 pixels wide so if anyone wants a poster just let me know... lol
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Same Guy:
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Look at the fat (gravid) belly on this girl...
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Same Girl:
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Very nice pics.What kind of lighting are you useing.What are you useing for a backdrop?THis is the best shot ive ever taken.
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That's a really nice picture! Good use of like colors.

In terms of the backdrop, I actually use a method similiar to this guys:
http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent.
I didn't glue it together so it folds down really nicely. He's usign a blue sheet in his but I just use a white piece of posterboard from Walgreens.

For lighting I use only a single Sigma DG-500 Super flash mounted on my Canon 20D, pointed up to reflect off the ceiling. Since I only use the one light (and not as many as the guy in the first link), I usually have to set my exposure to +1 and boost the flash to about +2/3 in order to get the background really white. Occasionally I have to do some selective erasing in photoshop to make the background more white, but until I can afford another $300 on an umbrella/light system, this will have to do. I'd like to take some more naturalistic shots (like yours there), but I don't have a whole lot that would make a good backdrop.
 
I try and take more natural shots..And just mess around with different back grounds.
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Very cute! I tend to like the naturalistic photos when just taking photos, but for most of the business stuff I like to keep it simple so you can see the animals. The natural stuff really looks a lot better for general photography though.
 
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