OK, what about the banner is menacing? Is it because the dogs mouths are closed?

I can definitely see that.

I can't fault them (well, yes, I can) for the image they project, but they certainly aren't doing anything for the anti-BSL movement.

Anywho, that's way off topic other than how you may need to shoot to appeal to their style at the show.

I wonder if you can get a Harley as a prop . . .

After my daughters were attacked, many years ago; we got a Great Dane/Pit Bull Mix named Clyde, size of Dane with head and body strength of Pit. He was a pussycat (tigers are pussycats too) but in public, we allowed him to look mean and tough. I felt safer when my daughters had this dog then if we had carried an AK-47.

To me, it looks more like a poster for a WWE cage match or a promotion for that awful dog wars game than anything else.

I think it is more the added graphics / effects than the way the dogs are posed.

I am seriously trying to see what has put you off the images. How would you have shot them to make them ambassadors or the breed and help the anti bsl movement?

Actually, the dogs look very lovable in this banner. Just the black with bold print and the graphics

Here is the other event poster
http://www.pitbullgear.com/category_s/222.htm

Again, I think it's more the graphics than the actual photos. The smoke, etc. Really says "mean, junkyard dog" to me.

Better, but not much. More WWE style graphics and that choke chain needs to go.

Smoke? Do you mean his logo that is a swirly b in gray?

I'm talking about the show page, not the photographer.