Thanks for the comments I need all the advice I can get.

LOL Jim I can picture Rowdy sitting there with people giving a wide berth! He is huge he almost weighs as my as my Dane did! Hallie is a willing model too, because she gets t-r-e-a-t-s. She tries to get into position before I get everything set up.

One thing I am having trouble with with her shots are they don't seem to be super sharp. I've noticed that with other black dogs (skips are awful for me to get sharp) could it be the camera can't focus correctly beforehand on such a low contrast subject?

I wouldn't be happy with any of these as a portrait, except maybe the first one LOL I was hoping to experiment and find something that looks good but isn't the usual flat lighting (I always am lookign for something different) but wasn't successful, but it was fun playing with the lights. I have a long way to go with the posing and props.

I agree muslin is sure nice for carrying around. I would LOVE to use canvas but it's so heavy, I wish I had a spot at home where I could set it up and leave it. I see the photographers at the shows use different rolls of it they just pull down as needed like you said, that would be so nice. Maybe it's the folds and not the wrinkles that bother me most, I will try balling them up and see if that helps.

Thanks Julie I did leave some of these without a vignette, I think they would have looked better with one too. I also often slightly blur the vignetted part but it's easy to overdo. It's fun to experiment I have taken a lot of shots of Hallie's favorite stuffed toy that is a life sized duplicate of her lol.I am learning a lot every time I set this stuff up.