I took these pictures this weekend for a friend. When he asked me to take the pictures, and do a collage just like this.... I thought of this challenge right away! What a fun shoot!
The dogs are Mollie, Jakey, and Elektra!
*I know I got a lot of comments about placement of the dogs, but this is the order he had asked me to put them in.
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4 - The one in the middle's tail and tongue are causing problems. Good selective desaturation(s). Even though the 'restrictions', still think that if the dogs were 'closer'/larger and also the frame (white) slightly narrower, make this even better in my opinion, even with the crazy tongue and tail in the middle.
Hahaha!! I would try swapping the two shots on the right, since I tend to be drawn mostly to the right-most panel, and the middle feller is facing a bit to the left. Bet this was a fun one to shoot! :-)
What a great silly series. Somehow I don't mind the loud border. Those lights are quite the studio prop. compositionally speaking, I think this would be stronger with a more darkly colored dog on the right, something to balance out the darkness of the one on the left.
Ah hell. I hate to say it, but I think you've included everything a hate in photography in one go. However, seeing beyond the strangenesses - de-sat, props, studio portraits of pets, pets with HATS (!), swagged backgrounds, I do actually find an element of pregression in this entry, and a strong sense of technique (which is a huge saving grace). It holds my eye a little more than I'd like to admit. Good work - of it's type.
PM me please - i need to know where you got those bulbs, or how you made this 'look' like they are in the pic with the animals - i am doing pet portraits and have beenlooking for something to fill the lower front of the frame and this looks great.
Photo wise, i mgiht have put the left panel in the center, dog-color wise, but then i suppsoe you chose based on bulb count? It's always easy to second guess, huh?
Is this going to be your Christmas card? Good pictures of the dogs. For purposes of the challenge, I would have made the border smaller, so the pictures of the dogs could be larger and we could see them better.
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