Finally got the studio setup and this is my first attempt at Pet Photography. This cutie is Pumpernickel, a mix of beagle and dachshund-my daughter's dog. She is totally untrained, a dog we rescued from the pound, and our best bud.

Studio info: four lights of 100 watt-sec each on the white background, each 3.5' from backdrop; one key light reflected off a 42 in white umbrella at 400 watt-sec from approx 60 degrees to camera right and a softbox fill adjacent to camera left. Background was balanced for f22 for high-key effect, key light was set at f16 and fill was set at f11.

Please, all comments requested, I am really trying to learn here.

Next time, I will have my daughter help or an assistant-it is pretty tough to keep an untrained animal anywhere near the center of the backdrop, heck, pumpernickel did not even like the backdrop.