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>says to have discretion
>makes a really stupid post

Those are all 4x5 shots first off, and the framing is fine on most of them. Clipped ear doesn't take anything away from that shot and I actually dont mind how it is balanced like that. Just because a shot breaks the "rules" does not make it bad.

The thing that you fail to understand is that you can't make a dog stay perfectly still. You frame it up as best you can, move quickly to set your camera, and hope he stayed in the same spot. Hopefully You know that you cant see the ground glass/framing after you put your film holder in, right?
Using 3 strobes, 4x5 film, and a hand painted backdrop to take pictures of your dog is about as far from a phone snapshit as you can get.

Last thing I will mention is that my current project is not about perfection from the start. It's about progress, and learning something new. I have taken 11 film pictures of dog in studio.
Every time I have a studio session I think of a few ways to improve what I'm doing after printing all the images from the previous session.
Day one was the starting point, day two was to improve the lighting and pose, day three will be to fix the backdrop, improve framing, work on new poses. After I have maybe 20-30 pictures I will choose pictures from each day then frame and hang in a 3x3 or 3x4 grid in order. It's going to be really cool.