Pet Photography!

Photographing family pets can be challenging!  Like small children, it's often difficult for the animal to remain still long enough to capture the perfect photo! 

Here is an excellent article on photographing animals!

Photographing Animals in All Their Moods

People who love animals love all kinds of animals; some are small while others are big. They love to watch and feel these animals and animal lovers love to photograph animals. Make sure that you hoot all the pictures with a camcorder or a digital camera as it is quite easy to take pictures from them

A lot of patience and perseverance is required to photograph animals. There will always be moments where you will be in a fix and things will get out of your control while photographing even a dog, cat or a small bird. It is important that you understand all their possible reactions and behavior so that you are prepared to tackle all their reactions.
While taking shots of animals you can apply the same rule that you apply for taking the pictures of humans. You just need be aware of the things that you would like to capture. For example if you see a cow and her calf sitting beside each other decide the angle from which you want to shoot. And you also need to be prepared to shoot the animal in such a way that your thoughts come across. Every picture sends some message across to the viewer's so you need to focus on that element. After capturing the image you can describe the picture as a moment of a mother and a child moment with some great effects.
Apply your knowledge after deciding the concept of your pictures with regards to the composition, lighting and angles. This will help you capture a great scene and you would achieve your goal too.


Experienced photographers swear by the virtue of patience and it is the most important thing for them. It's like fishing where you need to wait patiently for a long time in order to catch a fish. You need to remember the fact that here we are trying to photograph animals who do not think and act like humans. They can be quite uncooperative too at times and at times you will have to face their outrageous behavior.
So in these times patience is a virtue that you would require to achieve your goal. It's the same feeling when you would have to deal with a toddler who is restless and with lots of energy and the child can't stay in one position for too long. So you have to be quite quick with your shots. Practice makes a man perfect so the same holds true for the photographers too. Practice by taking pictures in the zoo and study their behavior so that it will be easier for you to take the pictures. Take extra precaution and never risk your safety and beware of animals. A digital camera or a camcorder is the best thing to shoot animals and the picture quality would be such that you will be amazed!

Rohan Sinha

 

The following photograph was taken several years ago of my beautiful cat, Molly.  

Happy Photographing!

Ellen