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Post by rokkathondogz on Jan 20, 2024 20:19:04 GMT -5
alright so this is my first time photographing poses for my pets so i'm looking for some critiques on them before i get to showing any of them! firstly the kitties! "Koi" "Midnight" "Rochambeau" for this one, my dali "Amor", i think i recognize that the issue is the placement of her legs but i'll still post this if anyone has any extra notes "Kill Bill" does this count as a profile/dane pose, btw? "Azul" i haven't been able to get a pic of him facing front when posing, and the poodle poses i have a bit of a hard time telling which is "perfect", the dali poses come more easy for me to figure out. that's all i have for now, i'm happy to hear any notes yall have!
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Post by shebaatje on Jan 22, 2024 15:18:27 GMT -5
Hi there ^_^, I'd love to give you some tips on posing Dali dogs. I hope my thoughts are coherent enough to put into words though, haha. If anything is unclear please let me know! I'll let Beau demonstrate: In the picture below I marked some of the features that a show judge will look at: Your Dali pose on ''Kill Bill'' looks very good! I think you'll want to be keeping it as a reference for sure! Their tail is nicely curved all the way towards the head and the leg alignment looks solid too. Notice how the white pixels on the nose are different from Beau's pose? Sometimes posing comes down to counting pixels xD haha. Ideally you want to be aiming at a nose where the white looks like Beau's pose. Your Amor has the nose pixels you're after, but you are correct in recognizing that she's faced too much towards the camera.
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Post by rokkathondogz on Jan 24, 2024 21:48:22 GMT -5
Hi there ^_^, I'd love to give you some tips on posing Dali dogs. I hope my thoughts are coherent enough to put into words though, haha. If anything is unclear please let me know! I'll let Beau demonstrate: In the picture below I marked some of the features that a show judge will look at: Your Dali pose on ''Kill Bill'' looks very good! I think you'll want to be keeping it as a reference for sure! Their tail is nicely curved all the way towards the head and the leg alignment looks solid too. Notice how the white pixels on the nose are different from Beau's pose? Sometimes posing comes down to counting pixels xD haha. Ideally you want to be aiming at a nose where the white looks like Beau's pose. Your Amor has the nose pixels you're after, but you are correct in recognizing that she's faced too much towards the camera.
thank u so much, this is very helpful! grrr i always get them so close to a perfect pose but something is always off xD keeping notes, thank again!
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Post by nebula on Jan 25, 2024 7:04:26 GMT -5
hey rokkathondogz , what cute petz! linking CRUSHING's guide there for you as it's a fantastic resource. it includes links to other guides as well, including the RKC ones! the guide is complete with animated gifs & labelled pictures, so you have a reference to assess these poses against it also shows the specifics of picture taking / which frames / animations to look for.
some general points ;;
- you want to see the least amount of the far front leg as possible
- left poses aren't generally accepted - there used to be some specifically hosted left sided pose shows but most these days accept only right facing! so it might be worth sticking to the right if wanting to enter the current lot of forum shows!
- sad eyes on cat breeds other than oshies may be marked down in the ring! with siamese, you can use the door method to avoid this (there's a part on it in the guide i linked above)
some adjustments i'd suggest for your pets' poses would be - - koi: rotated more toward the camera (to their right) - also a note on meezers, sad eyes are typically not desired for them!
- midnight: rotated more towards the camera. the ideal alignment for a siamese stretch pose is rotated even further toward the camera than you would for a regular pose. as for the sitting pose, you want to capture them with their eyes open, before they throw their head back!
- amor: rotated more to their left. the pic shebaatje provided in the earlier post is a great example of what a well aligned dali pose typically looks like! (though keep in mind different scales / leg extensions in non purebred dalis may change what the pose looks like)
- kill bill pic #1 (dali pose): the alignment is perfect here! the back toes line up perfectly. in order to get the desired "heart nose", you just have to capture the frame right before the highest breathing point - it just takes a bit of practice! keep this pose on hand though - some judges prefer the level nose!
- kill bill pic #2 (dane pose): once again a perfectly aligned pose - however it looks like here the pose was captured not at the peak of breath. typically at the highest breathing point, the tail will be nice and curled in as much as possible, the chest proud and head tall (refer to visuals below)
below are some "do's and don'ts" visuals from CRUSHING's guide that i think are super helpful, and encapsulates what i've said perfectly pretty much! dali pose - wrong vs right alignment ⬇
for purebred dalis, the toes should ideally be even for danes, typically 1px is preferred, but there's different ranges that different judges accept for this!
dali pose - wrong vs correct breathing point ⬇ dane pose - wrong vs correct breathing point ⬇
meezer - alignment for specific meezer poses ⬇
plus an additional visual i made using my pinky (left) and kathleen 's blinky (right) to demonstrate the difference in breathing points (but in a dane) sorry for the huge chunk of text, but hope that's helpful!
you're off to a great start - i'd highly recommend once again reading all the guides available as they are pretty comprehensive. discord is also a great place to ask for help if you need someone to look over your poses.
i don't judge on RKC but if you're ever over on WW, looking forward to seeing you in my shows!
best of luck in the ring!
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