Peggy Sue,
I resemble that remark grin. In my opinion, most of the folks getting into the pet portrait business prefer outdoor or environmental portraits because they know very little about using strobes -- indoors, studio or outdoors -- and have very little interest in learning how to. Maybe it's an economic decision or maybe it's an aesthetic one. I'm not sure.

The old guard as you kindly refer to us has been using multiple strobe setups for a lot of years and so that gives us a bit more flexibility in choosing which environment is going to work best for what you're trying to achieve in the portrait session. With dogs, I think you can get good results in either environment. With cats, I can't imagine that you can get the type of results that Preston or Helmi get without a studio setup.

Jim


Jim Garvie
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