Photo replay: Purrfect poser
With no children or similarly obliging subjects regularly available in my nest, practicing portraits with my new camera means my animals are the primary subjects.
The dogs usually think I'm offering a treat when I try to photograph them, so most shots of Mickey and Lyla are blurry shots of them speeding toward me in hopes of nabbing a treat or of their noses sniffing out the camera in search of snacks for their service.
Which leaves the cats as my primary posers.
Isabel doesn't care too much for the position foisted upon her and makes no bones about cussing me out for it.
My sweet tabby Abby, on the other hand, happily lends a paw any time I need, posing perfectly for shot after shot—in color, black-and-white, macro and more.
One more reason she's likely my favorite feline ever. (Just don't tell Isabel as it'll give her even more cause to complain.)
Today's question:
How would you rate the portrait-posing probability of your pets?
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Reader Comments (10)
Bear E. - Afraid of his own shadow, would be terrified of camera attack - 2
Trouble B. - Feral stray kitty rescued 11 years ago - 0 (not worth losing my arm)
Felix A - Mellow guy wouldn't know what was going on - 10
Ripley does the doggy thing and gets all nosey or looks freaked out. Lucky for me I have a little boy who loves letting me try out my camera skills on him.
Either of my two cats would be, like yours, more obliging; the big dog and the little dog would be, like yours, acting crazy or looking for snacks, because that's what dogs do.
Twiggy, who is our tortie and looks a bit like Isabel, is oblivious to the camera and loves to show off. Her sister Twursula, who is a gorgeous calico loves to pose but will always look annoyed! Shebee, our black devil who adopted us last year, is the tricky one. She is all black so doesn't photograph easily anyway but worse yet -- if she sees the camera strap she comes running to try and attack it!
I don't have pets now but when I had my gray tabby, she was too lazy to move, so it was easy to take lots of photos of her. Lazy cat. I miss her. I hope to find another kitty sometime soon.
Abby is beautiful. Isabel is too but check out her teeth! Eeeeek. Don't mess with her! The dogs' noses made me laugh. Yep -- just like my children! One will pose. Another will jump up and down rather than pose. The other is in between. Hahaha!!!!
-steph
I don't have a pet right now but my old basset hound, Primo, always took a great picture. He always had that soulful look in his eyes that could just melt me and my kids. I miss him.
My two Boston Terriers are a blurr in every picture I take of them, or in 99% at least. But my daughters cat is not only photogenic but she is always sitting in a photo studio pose just waiting for someone to break out the camera. I took three pictures of her over the holiday and all three are of her sitting on the tree skirt under the Christmas tree...with her head slightly tilted to the left, lol She looked like she was looking just over the pbotograpgers shoulder...there was nothing but a blank wall there so she must have just been in-pose. Silly old cat :-)
By the way, your new camera takes some awesome pictures!
~Anna
Your kitties are great models. They are both very pretty! I have issues with my dog moving too much and my cat is very un-photogenic, so I stick with the mountain, haha!
At least Isabel looks good cussing you out! Annie dog doesn't mind the camera as long as I don't try to get a macro shot. I'm determined and I will get that shot one day!