Get your feline photography on with these pointers
By Peter Kolonia | Published Jan 15, 2013 9:34 PM EST
“I wanted a cat’s-eye view of my neighbor’s pet, so I set my Canon PowerShot G9 on the step of my stoop and waited for her to get accustomed to it,” says San Francisco-based artist and healthcare worker Darwin Bell. “Because the camera was a nonthreatening compact, she wasn’t disturbed by it.”
Soon enough, he reached down, pressed the shutter, and nabbed this beauty. His tips for feline photos:
● Avoid big cameras and lenses. When cats see big lenses, they tend to nose them. “You don’t want that,” says Bell. Use a wide-angle zoom setting, a compact camera that focuses close, and one like the G9 that has an articulated LCD screen.
● Natural light is best. Cats often bolt when a flash goes off.
● Focus manually to assure what should be sharp is indeed sharp. Luckily, compact cameras, even at their largest apertures, provide deep depth of field.
_See more of Darwin’s excellent work on Flickr. _