Limes with Orange

The other night while I was tutoring, one of my cats (Tobi, my previously mentioned "closet cat"… who actually comes out of the closet for this particular student) curled up on top of my student's book bag and looked just adorable. I grabbed my camera to take a pic and didn't manage to capture the cuteness at all. (I'd show you my efforts but I deleted them straightaway.) But it made me realize that I've never really managed to take a good photo of my cats. Fortunately I have a few decent pictures of them that friends of mine have taken… but I'm the one who sees all the cute stuff they do, so I'd like to be able to take the photos myself.

Which is why I was quite pleased to find this article with pet photography tips. The tips are pretty commonsensical but sometimes common sense isn't so common, so I definitely liked the approach. I particularly appreciated the suggestion that the cat should fill about 70% of the frame. I think that's been part of my problem, I'm not zoomed in enough. It would have been nice if they'd talked about digital cameras, too. But with the article not being overly technical, I suppose most of the information applies to any type of camera. Now I just need to practice!

Labels: animals, art and photography