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Dog Photography Tips for… Cats!?
By KRae Merk | March 30, 2010
Yes me, the crazy dog photographer does take pictures of cats too. Mostly of my own cat, Buford T. Pusser who loves wearing dresses. (more on that later)
The settings for this photo was Programmed Auto with auto white balance and 400 ISO with the exposure compensation set at one stop down, and I always have the Active D Lighting on with my cameras to help compensate for the bright sunlight outside that morning. And I was using my Nikon D300 with my favorite animal lens, the Nikon 70-300 VR lens.
Another photography tip I use for cats is when I photograph a cat, I want the eyes to show up very bright and clear, especially on Buford since he’s black and has bright green eyes that show up brilliantly against his black fur and white markings, so, I usually place the sun at my back or preferably to the side to show against the sun. But this tip doesn’t work on people though because we can’t dial down our pupils to block out the sun like cats do, we end up squinting and that makes for a really bad photo. In the photo below, the sun was behind me and slightly to my left.
Earlier in this post I mentioned that Buford loves wearing dresses. He does. But I raised Buford from a 6 week old kitten and he grew up wearing dresses and is used to it, so if your cat wasn’t raised that way, be careful when trying to put your cat in a dress. 
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