Thanks David!!! I'm soaking all this in. I am going to a dog show tomorrow and hope the two usual portrait photographers (in the vendors area) will be there so I can scrutinize their set ups closer. I have looked in the past and one uses soft boxes the other uses umbrellas...and both their images look wonderful.

At one of Hallie and my shows recently we were sitting ring side waiting for our turn. One of the photographers booths was directly behind us. They had a monitor there that had changing photos on it as examples. Hallie is a black and tan longhaired dachshund. Once I turned around and there was an image of a black and tan longhaired dachshund sitting on their screen. It was there for a long time. A friend of mine came over to talk to me, she has a wirehaired pointer. I then noticed a wirehaired pointer on the screen. LOL!!! I paid attention then and sure enough, whatever breed was hovering around, it would end up on the screen. Pretty funny! Good idea though, it probably works, whenever I paint a new breed of dog, I will suddenly get several orders from other owners of the breed, it seems if they see their own breed painted, it entices them to want one done more so than if they see another breed painted.