Micro Feline
 
The art of the cat under the micro photography lens is an acquired skill. All animal photography is. But if you have access to animals on any basis, consider grooming a subset of photography skills that can enrich your online image portfolio. Jump to first of the line with these advance tips for a pet feline image walkabout.
1. Don’t Follow, Anticipate
Cats react to stimuli around them. Unlike sight hunting dogs who see something and immediately run toward it, cats are more subtle.They edge around their pathways and ande see something that interests them, and they hit points A, B, and C before they to D, the “target”. Don’t miss the shot because the cat broke the pose or leapt to address something new. Watch for stretching, rolling over, settling down and flower sniffing to get the habit of knowing what comes next. You’ll be able to switch lens settings more easily.
2. Bring the Quiet Camera
The noise your camera makes during operation may seem negligible. But when the cat is arching their back right in the sun’s horizon in a perfect silhouette, don’t break the shot by alerting the feline to a whirring focus, a rumbling memory card reader, or clicking battery recesses.
Borrow a quiet one if you need to, learning the video capture, practicing exchanging batteries without looking or moving overmuch, and having the right format memory card or storage device. Use your camera phone if those results are equal and no noise is emitted during the shoot.
3. Delete While You Go. .
Even the biggest memory cards get sodden with huge image files you many not have got to editing yet. Using pauses in the feline model shoot, review the “take” and get rid of shots irrelevant due to lack of composition, blur, artifacts, or subjects cut off or outside the frame. These can’t be fixed in editing. If the can be, they will require a lot of time and you might regret it later in the day when you get clipped of a great photo opportunity by a satured memory card. Free up the memory card, since reviewing old images eats time.
4. Video the Motion
As I have stated again and again on theStockblog.net, taking frame capture screenshots from video allows much more choice and flexibility. If the motion is happening too quick to snap, click the video button and don’t miss anything. Remind yourself to do this. Otherwise that cat will pause in one of the most beautiful, natural, amazing poses and be gone in two shakes later, as you wait for the autofocus to dance its mysterious dance.
You lose enough shots to remember next time, but why not execute this step the first time out? Keep ample enough room on the memory card to absorb full mega pixel video files of thirty seconds or more. if you can freeze motionless, the cat may act silly or brilliant for pictures that stand out.
5. Don’t Make Friends
Micro Stock Shots of a cat or feline rubbing on your legs and purring around your ankles does not actually interest people or sell a lot. Do you have a model release for the shoes of the person on the receiving end of the rubbing? What condition are background, shoes, or clothes in? Get the cat to answer you or look your way when you all out their “name”, like “cutie, darling, or boy/lady”.
Get the most of your micro feline shoot by keeping hands clean and the light and background in work. Great flowerbeds, green grass, subject matter being “examined’ by the feline, all make great pictures. If you get the cat’s attention using snacks, noise or motion, they may stop acting naturally or (performing) unless fed. this will interrupt the action and distract the animla from fruitful actiity.
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