2 thoughts on “Animal Photography: How to take a picture for cats”

  1. Burwing short hair cats (details introduction)
    mn owners of any animal, no matter what animal owners, they hope to record every moment of pets, but taking photos for pets is one of the most difficult themes for pets. Many owners who raise cats always complain that they are always not good for cats. In fact, taking pictures for cats is also particular about methods. Here are a few tips for taking pictures for cats. I hope to help everyone.
    . Preparation
    First of all, take some preparations for cats. To take a bath for the cute cat babies, be sure to wash it clean, and then make beauty. Like people, no makeup is not beautiful, cats also need to make makeup. However, cat’s makeup is not eyebrows and lipsticks. The makeup mentioned here is mainly to wipe off the pet’s eyes and combed the hair.
    In finishing the cat, you have to organize yourself. Be sure to wear a set of strong and wear -resistant clothes. Because you often lie on the ground when taking pictures, it is easy to get dirty clothes. It is recommended not to wear expensive clothes.
    . In terms of equipment
    1. The lens
    The demand for shooting cats can be very simple, just one machine and one mirror. As for what lens you choose, you need to see what the shooting effect you want. For example:
    Fish eye lens -can be placed in the front of the cat several centimeters to shoot the big cat;
    wide -angle lens -such as 12mm, you can shoot the cat and the nearby environment, and increase the successful shooting. Opportunities, but be careful that the cat becomes too small and not prominent enough;
    standard lens-such as 35-50mm, of which 50mm large aperture lens can easily shoot shallow scenes to highlight the cat, but it is only applicable to not afraid Human cats in order to get close to shooting;
    telephoto lens -such as 200mm, if you are close to the cat or are afraid that you will be too close to scare the cat, we can use a long focal length lens as a start, imagine ourselves as a one Special agents, keep the cat from a distance from a distance;
    Me -distance lens -want to use a macro lens for ultra -near -distance shooting, so that the cat’s eyes and hair are presented in front of the eyes, and the hair can be presented in front of the eyes. It is recommended to use the cats raised at home.
    It, the battery must be sufficient, because the need for electric power with the long -focus lens and the continuous focus mode is quite large. It is a wise choice to prepare a few sets of batteries. The memory card must also be fully prepared. Once half of the shot of the memory card is not enough, how regrettable it is.
    2. Basic settings of the camera
    The white balance, you can use the automatic white balance mode if you use the flash. If you shoot under the tungsten light, you can not use the flash, you can set the white balance directly to the tungsten to the tungsten to the tungsten to the tungsten to the tungsten to the tungsten. Silk lamp mode. As for the use of other indoor light sources, it is best to manually calibrate the white balance to reduce the situation of biased.
    It the focus of the focus when focusing, if the focus is on other places, the photo will look blurred. If you shoot the cats in the fast walk, choosing the continuous focus mode of the camera can reduce the loss of focus.
    3. Pay attention to the shutter speed
    It needs to keep the safety shutter when holding the camera, but the need for cat shutter in the movement is faster, such as 1/400s, whether in indoor or outdoor Go to get faster shutter speed.
    . How to shoot cats?
    The cats usually do not listen to work, so they cannot be taken outside to shoot. Once it runs, you can’t chase it. In order to avoid this situation, it is recommended that everyone shoot indoors.
    The habits of cats usually start to be active when sleeping during the day. Although the pet cats in the family now have gradually lost this unique habit, most cats still follow this law, so Try to shoot cats in the afternoon. Because there is a large difference between indoor environment and outdoor, it is a good choice to use long -focus and try to open a large aperture. This can blur the messy background to make the subject more prominent.
    1. Light source
    During shooting, use natural light as much as possible. The flash not only easily causes red eyes, but also scares pets. Therefore, choose a bright and natural light environment, outdoor or indoors with bright windows.
    If shooting indoors, light sources are the most considering factor. The simplest is to use natural light during the day, and the natural light clearing through the window can achieve natural effects. It is best to have a family and friends to help use the anti -light board to replenish the cat’s backlight shadow. If there is no reflector, it can be replaced with white towels and sheets.
    If there is no natural light, you must turn on all the lights indoors, and use higher sensitivity (such as ISO 800) and open a large aperture to reduce the shaking of the picture. The more flexible method is to use the flash to reflect the light source to the cat with the jumping method. Because the direct flashing flash can make the cat’s eyes reflect and appear “red eyes”. Adding a soft light device to the flash can make the light softer softer.
    2. Ensure the sharpness of the eyes
    This cat’s eyes are a bit special. In a bright environment, the pupils will be refined into a narrow vertical line, and it will open into a round shape in a dark environment. Most people think that round pupils look more cute. To shoot such eyes, they must be in the dim indoor environment, and it is best to light up with jump lights.
    The saying that the eyes are the window of the soul. In portrait photography, the focus is often focused on the eyes, paying attention to the grasp of the eyes. The same is true for cats. The innocent eyes are translucent and cute, sometimes revealing naughty, sometimes lazy, as long as the cats’ beautiful eyes are captured, they will achieve an excellent pet photography.
    So put the focus on the cat’s eyes. One is not to run the focus, and the other is to use shallow scenes to simplify the background to protrude.
    3. Selection of shooting time
    If you want to take a more formal cat portrait, you can wait for the cat to act when the cat is a little sleepy or just wakes up. Pet photos should be taken during their energetic state. When they are angry, they are obviously not suitable for taking pictures.
    4. Closer to them
    as the master, do not force them to put any Pose. Choose an environment that makes cat feel comfortable and relaxed, and actively let the camera follow them.
    The good way is to shoot horizontally. Everyone knows that when pets are looking at us, we will also habitually take a downhand. They will be very special when shooting from the perspective of the world. You can also take advantage of them lying on the floor, or lying on your belly and shooting in the direction of their sight.
    Is do not let go of this best model when you meet a kitten. After the cat is bigger, the vigilance of things will be very high, and it will be alert to immediately disturb it, but the kitten rarely exists in this problem. When the cat was young, he was very interested in anything. You would play with everything and did not care about your existence. Especially when playing, you often focus on it. The degree of excitement is quite high. You make a little sound. They will immediately open their eyes to look around to see what else. What are you waiting for?
    5. Attraction of attracting them
    How to attract the cat’s attention? There is a small way to call their names or whistle to attract their attention in the process of playing. This method not only caught their surprise expression, but also captured their alert gesture.
    Is when we are taking photos for the cat, we will talk to him while taking pictures, and sometimes you will attract his attention with toys. Now in such a hot summer, often a few photos have been sweaty after taking them.
    6. Show their personality
    If your pet is a lazy cat, shoot him yawning, if your pet is lively and moved, then pat the exercise he is good at exercise. Look, or some small tricks he often naughty. Remember, showing a distinctive personality is the key to the success of pet photography.
    Few people can shoot cats in the exercise. This is because they are very sensitive and their movements are very fast. The gear, that is, a single focus mode is very convenient. When the cat is resting, press the shutter to focus, then compose the picture, and finally release the shutter to ensure the accuracy of the focus and the sharpness of the photo.
    7. close -up
    If shooting with a telephoto lens to allow the cat’s face or body to occupy the entire picture, it will be very photo, and it will also reveal some humanity.
    8. Be patient
    No matter how excited your cat is, you must ensure that you have enough patience to catch the moment he relaxed. Here you can choose the continuous shooting function of the camera.
    9. Experiment
    The last point is that you can try to shoot at different angles and methods. Maybe you can dig the other side of the cat.

  2. My family has a lively kitten, with big eyes, small noses, and flexible ears. Long beard. It is particularly lively and active. With a little moving ears, it moves up and down. When we eat fish in our family, it forgets us with big eyes. It wants us to give it some good. The fish bone looked at where it was eaten. I observed it. It looked very cute to eat. From time to time, it also hooked the fish bone with the claws. It is not like other cats. Other cats love to sleep, but not only if you move it, you can get a small eyes and play with you. In the light, it is said that the cat is auspicious symbol, because I have experienced it for myself. I remember that I was happy with my kitten and I was happy. Suddenly Mimi ran out, and when I came in A coin 1 yuan, it can be seen that it is really a “recruiting cat”. Another time, I was going to eat things in the kitchen, and suddenly saw Mimi staring at the cabinet in the kitchen. I looked at it and didn’t know what was going on. I looked at the cabinet. After seeing a mouse, I crawled behind Mimi. It kicked my hand with back and kicked my hand. It seemed to be saying not to act lightly. Mimi stared out for a while and suddenly jumped out, 嗖! Suddenly biting the mouse bitterly bitterly, and later I found that it was not about to eat mice. Today, I finally saw the real cat catching mice. Mimi called me meow two times. Every year during the New Year, my kittens are the same as the New Year as my house. When it came to our house, I was very afraid that I would be familiar in the future. I put firecrackers outside every year. I was afraid that a firecracker exploded and blinked it, the third time in the future. the fourth time. In the fifth time, it was not afraid of playing with me. In the New Year, we have a good thing to eat good things in our family. If you do n’t give it, you ca n’t boring and make a tragic scream, laughing with us. Mimi is really the “wealth cat” of our family.

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