I saw am interesting photo effect on a magazine cover some time back & decided to try it with one of my Chihuahua models this week.

With the use of lightening and background and camera technique, I did get the artistic effect that I was looking for.

Spot metering and carefully chosen lighting gave me a "dodged effect" that I was trying to capture in the camera. Yes, the "blown out" areas are deliberate.

Out of camera, post editing included: cropping to a square format and adjusting the contrast.

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2012 How naive I was back 10 years ago.

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