Hi Deon,

Thank you for the reply. I am very happy with my pet photos this year. Honestly, I think they are better than most of my nature/wildlife shots...certainly when comparing them with some of the really good shots in the Best of '05 thread.

These were lit very differently than my other shots. Everything here was about controlling shadows as much as possible. It is so much harder when your backdrop is in two dimensions. I still used my two flash set-up (I had debated adding a third). One flash was bounced off of the cieling to push down the shadows. The other flash was diffused and fired at a 2:1 ratio.

-JM