Standing Dog Pictures

Standing dog shots taken straight from the side of the dog, from a level equal to the dog (not from above, and not from below).

Here is an example of a good side shot taken almost straight from the side. The dog is standing rather well on it’s own, and is relaxed so the picture gives a good idea of the dog’s natural top line, underline, and proportions length/height etc. It also give a good profile of the head, and it shows the dog’s forechest (or lack of). The dog is alert, head an tail up.

In the perfect world, the dog’s hind leg would have been placed slightly further forward, so the leg from the hock to the paw would have been at a 90 degree angle to the ground.
The dark shadow behind the dark head makes it a bit hard to see the head’s profile clearly.

Here is another rather good side shot, from when the dog turned the head a bit. It shows the head in a ¾ format, part front and part side. The photographer moved slightly more towards the front of the dog, than in the picture above.

In the perfect world, front legs and rear legs are better aligned with one another than here, but it is “ok” in particular if other pictures of the dog are along in a series accompanying this picture.

A very good side shot, this picture shows the dog’s head from the front, versus in profile, and the angle of the bottom part of the rear leg to the ground is really good, very close to 90 degrees.

The grass should not be any taller, the picture’s weaknesses are the disturbing head of a different dog right “above” the back of the dog being shown, and the grass covering the paws, leaving a little bit up to the imagination, as far as the dog’s proportion length/height.

Standing Dog Pictures Front and/or ¾ Views

Showing the front of the dog, giving (among other information) an impression of it’s body width.
The dog should be in the same alert, but relaxed and balanced position as for the side shots.

Another ¾ shot. This picture looses a bit because the dog’s paw is lifted, but it’s still “ok”, in particular if other pictures of the dog come along with this picture in a series. This picture also shows this dog’s head almost from the front, pretty well.

The length of the grass is a weakness in this shot, because the length of the legs can be difficult to determine.

A Rather good frontal shot. It should not be taken from any higher position, this is a good picture and shows what it needs to, but it is actually taken slightly from above the dog! Any higher position of the camera would make it too high and useless.

This is also a good frontal picture of the head.

Head Pictures - Profile and Frontal

And the series of pictures should also include some pictures showing the dog’s head. One frontal and one profile. Some of the body shots can also show both, so if you have a lot of the side shots showing the dog’s head’s profile, take some of the dog’s head from the front in addition, and vise-versa, if you have the dog looking straight at you giving good frontal head views on the side shots, take a profile picture or two, of the head in addition to those.

A good profile picture of the dog, showing the head’s proportions rather well. It could have been taken just a tad more from the right, for the perfect profile, but it is “ok”. This picture too is considerate of the dog’s dark head, in placing it in front of a white back ground.