We do a lot of portraits of dog owners with their dogs. To make the portrait the absolute best we always recommend to the owners what they should wear. The concept behind this is you want to be in color harmony with your dog(s). If you wear a really bright red shirt and your dog is black—though black and red can look good together—guess where the eye goes when someone looks at the photo? To the brightest color. The dog gets lost in the image. You don’t want to upstage your dog.
So we recommend tones that will be in harmony with your dogs fur color. Whatever the dominate color of the fur is you want tones that are compatible with that color. Usually you cannot go wrong with earth tones for a brown colored dog. Deeper reds like rust or a maroon —browns, tans and the like are good choices.
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