Colleen Easley lives in Olympia, WA with her husband Dale and 2 cats. Photography has been her hobby for 40 years. Currently she is working on a 365 project which requires that she take at least one photo every day and publish it to her blog. You may follow her on Twitter and/or Facebook by clicking the links below. To see all the photos of her 2010 project, click the link below under LINKS.
12.12.09Short and sweet – photographing cats is not easy! They don’t stand still, they don’t like any lights shining in their eyes, they move at exactly the time you’re hitting the shutter, and the list goes on! I put on the 90mm Macro again today to see what kind of indoor portraits I could get of the cats. Although they didn’t cooperate very well, I did manage a few decent shots.
When using the D90 on autofocus it shoots a bright assist light at the subject and that immediately made the cats turn away. So I put it in manual focus mode. That definitely worked better, but I’m afraid I had already conditioned them to look away by trying to autofocus. As a result, it was hard to get them to look straight on to the camera, and by the time I actually took the time to manually focus, I often missed the shot completely. Oh well, live and learn.
The gray cat is PD and the Siamese mix is Foxy (short for Little Fox). Both cats were given to us by their previous owners and we feel very lucky to have them – they’re both wonderful, loving cats.
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