Help needed....

[Canis-Lupess]

Can anyone help me please?

If you read my other thread about me having to paint my uncles dog then you'll know what this is about. Here goes.

I need to think of a background for her. The grass in the foreground is ok but he wants hills or something in the background. Being as she is only a little dog and the angle that I took the photo, having hills in the background will be really tricky without breaking the laws of perspective but my uncle insists I am a goddess who can miraculously re-write those rules...damnit!!!

What I could do with is if some owners of small dogs like Meg could take some photos of them from the same angle with some nice background behind them. It doesn't have to be hills and it doesn't have to be in focus either because I can paint it as blurred out so that Meg stands forward from it better.

The grass in the foreground can stay, it's further back I need something else.

I know that not much background would show when it's only a little dog because they aren't high enough off the ground.
Obviously, there has to be no snow and if you can take it on a bright but overcast day because thats the light thats on Meg in the photo.

I'll be deeply greatful for anything that anyone can either create or dig out of their archives.

Cheers in advance...

Here is the photo I'll be using so you know what angle it is.

[Freedom]

Aw, that's a sweet photo of her. I like it with the toy! Good choice from a grand selection of pictures.

[BCollie_Kelly]

Nice choice of photo!
I don't have small dogs, but I do have some pictures that just may help you depending on what you're looking for.

[Ginger's Mom]

Would something like this help?

[BCollie_Kelly]

Here's another;

[Canis-Lupess]

Thanks guys.

It's a tricky favour to ask for really because you have to be right on the perspective. As Meg needs to be as large in the composite as possible, that means that not much around her will show within the composite. As you can see in my photo of her, the viewers view only goes back a few yards to the fence before it is cut off by the top of the photo. This is why doing hills will be tricky...because they are generally quite a way off for them to look small behind a little dog and that means they'd be way higher than the top of the image if you understand what I mean.

BCollie_kelly - Thanks for those photos. With larger dogs like BCs, you have to be further away from the dog to fit it in the frame and then you get more background in as a result see...the same sort of effect as using wide-angle lense. With little dogs, getting more background in is far more difficult unless you have the dog small in the frame or it's on a hill so the ground behind it drops down and leaves a view for whatever might be further off from that hill...in other words, you'd have to be looking down at the view rather than across or up.

I've been asking for ideas in other places too and many people seem to suggest having the grass in the foreground and then having a blurred out hedge or bushes where the fence should be. I was thinking of that same idea myself really. Unless I change the lay of the ground directly behind where Meg is standing, the placement of her feet means I have to keep the ground under her exactly the same but doing this is notoriously difficult and I don't want to add anymore stresses where this piece of concerned.

Thanks again everyone who posted. I'll be back with the wip thread soon, lol.