Snowy The Rescued Retired Racing Greyhound Jazz Musician (Click to enlarge)
It’s true that you can overwhelm your composition with too many props. This one is right on the verge of such, but look…if you’ve ever walked the streets of the French Quarter you may have seen a picture something like this on every street corner. Only in place of Snowy, a cat in sunglasses might be blowing her/his horn with the case open for tips. If Snowy were a darker color, I may not have liked this as well. Your subject must pop, and the busy background is muted in color, so the white Greyhound in the center works for me. I worried about the orange album cover, however. But it seems to balance the large dark case on the other side. What do you think?
I would have liked to have tried this with fewer props as well, but Snowy was one of those folks whose fear of thunder and lightning was triggered by the lights and we were lucky to get this on the 7th frame…but isn’t she beautiful? After that she said, “Hey, I gave you the money shot right in the beginning, what more do you want of me?” If you have a choice, try all different configurations of the props and keep shooting as you begin to remove them one at a time. Depending upon the theme, one prop might be all you would need.
We are at the tail end of our Greyhound Pets of America – Louisiana Chapter (GPA/LA) 2010 calendar shoot, and Snowy’s mom and dad brought props that might assure them of a spot for Jazz Fest month. They just might make it — what do you think?
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