Stacking opinion - Page 1

I just wanted to see what you guys think about this stack. I don't really know how to do them that well,  and the lighting on this picture was not that great and made his coloring look weird, and he had a weird look on his face but anyways. This is my boy Drago, or as I call him "Dray" , which I do have an ad up for sale on this site, but may just end up keeping him and working with him more myself. But what do you guys think of the stack pic, and of the other two pictures, all three were taken today.

Here is a stacking pick of him, he turns 8 months in just two days.



And I just thought I would post another picture of him from the front to show what he looks like there.



And one more

 Try to bring his right rear leg forward a little more so he is not stacked so squarely, and bring his back legs in closer to each other.  Also, try to get the picture with his mouth open.  Someone in front of him to get his attention might also bring his ears up in a more alert appearance.  I know it is hard and takes many shots to get one good one.  Keep trying.  He is a handsome dog.

OK here is MY opinion

Angle of the dogs is not stright

Angle of the picture is off.  You are not centered in the middle, which makes the head and shoulder appear larger thus the butt is smaller

Back legs are spread out to far apart and looks like he is bracing him self  for ?

Front legs are a little forward and east to west .

Expression of dog really is a turn off, he does not appear happy or confident.

Also try taking the picture with nothing in the back round so top line can clearly be seen and not distraction from the dog. Try stacking him where you took picture two.

ps you choke chain is on backwards

Hope that helps 

EK

Thanks, and yes I know the choke is on backwards in those pictures.  It's hard to find a level place to take the pictures too, at least in this yard. I'll take what you told me and try to get some good stacks here in just a little bit.

A few more. They looked good on the camera with the pics being so small , but I'm still seeing some faults on these pictures seeing them on here now, not sure about all of them though but maybe you guys can point them all out. The first one was just a natural stack, I know his head is turned, and his right foot is turned a little....any other faults on that one? besides his choke collar being backwards lol.  I wasn't paying attention to the bone in front of him at the time, I just took the pic when he stopped for a second.



The next one I took was one we tried to do. Once again his head is turned a little

The first picture, the back legs look like they are spread apart?  I like the bottom 2 though.

Here is some information that was given to me on how to properly stack a german shepherd...I hope that this helps...

Always stack the FRONT first, and intentionally just a little too far UNDER the body.  This way, when you set the back left leg to the rear, it will pull the front legs into the proper position!  If you set the front legs straight to begin with, when you set the rear legs, it pulls the body back, but leaves the front feet in their original position, but moves the forearms back, creating the improper angle.  Am I making sense here?

What bone ? lol

I like these much better. The head on the second one looks good,  you can see the stop plus he also look happy and confident

I like the bone picture more for the over all look. Not bad for a natural look. As for the feet turned he looks to be a little east to west not much you can do, besides placing and hoping he stays.

Jyl gave really good advise for stacking.

Thanks you guys.  I have no clue how to get stuff out of the picture like that lol

Not a problem. A lot of people use photo shop. There are other tools that can be used too.