Pet portrait

[Charles L Webster]

Josh's thread last month prompted me to go shoot some new portraits of my cats. The one I want to shoot, a black and white long hair won't have any part of modeling, so I have to make due with a tabby and a torbie who love to ham it up for the camera.

Shot with the EF-S 60mm f2.8 macro lens. All were f/10 @ 1/250. Key light is a 24 X 36" softbox with a grid, just out of camera range on the left. Fill is either a 5" (Sissy 1 and Cassie) or a 7" (Sissy 3) reflector just above the camera, and the hair light is also a 7" reflector, on a boom above and slightly behind.

Sissy 1

Sissy 3

Cassie (couldn't get her to sit under the hair light)

 

[Ray West]

Hi Charles,

I think the most interesting is the second one. I'm trying to work out if she is getting a bit annoyed, or just nodding off.

The one I want to shoot, a black and white long hair won't have any part of modeling

You're lucky, I reckon. I've found for b&W pets it is not easy to get a decent photo.

Now, being a bit of a nuisance, any chance you have some sort of reduced images, such as your guitar one, reduced to 'essence of cat'? Maybe it doesn't work so good with a fuzzy subject. ;-)

Best wishes,

Ray