Pet photography

1. Pay attention to the aperture size. Use a small aperture to get a large depth of field unless your object is stationary. Even if it runs around, you are likely to keep its face in a reasonable and acceptable focal length.

2. Shutter speed. When the pet moves around, the shutter speed should be fast to avoid blurring the image due to movement. For active animals, the speed is at least1125 seconds. If your goal is to take pictures of animals moving, such as a running horse, then you can slow down the shutter speed to show a sense of speed.

3. International Organization for Standardization. In order to obtain faster shutter speed, the setting range of ISO400-800 is selected in dark light.

4. Lighting. Large bright lights or spotlights will make our furry friends uncomfortable. The main light is generally irradiated at a depression angle of 45 degrees. For pets, reflective umbrella is a good light source, because even if the little guy walks around, reflective umbrella will provide enough space to block it. 45 degrees of light will create a strong three-dimensional sense, showing the texture of fur. You can also use weak auxiliary light or reflector to open the shadow range. If you want to emphasize the texture of an animal's fur or vividly show its beard, you can use side light or backlight.

5. exposure. If you only use the exposure meter to measure fur, it will be displayed as 18% gray. Solution: Use 18% gray card or incident light meter. If there is neither, replace it with a gray color of about 18%. You can also try this method: look at the animal's face. If the hair on your face is black, reduce the aperture by two. If it is white, add two apertures. And then exposed at least once in each direction.

6. Background. Like any good photo, the background should be simple and avoid distracting content. Including other animals, active people and children playing. When you are indoors, you can build a scene with many different things, such as seamless paper, carpet, blanket and pillow, by removing fancy appliances in the background. Make sure that the color of the background contrasts with the color and texture of animal fur.

7. Other tips. Try to place the camera parallel to the animals, but pay attention to the background. In order to stabilize the animal in one place, give it a toy to play with, a little food to chew, or a familiar pillow. Cats are natural climbers and jumpers. If you put an eye-catching thing on the table, you can take three photos of the cat jumping to see what it is: squatting, jumping and landing. As a natural toy for cats, cotton thread or wool ball lasts for a long time. If you want to take a picture of two dogs hugging, try rubbing some food behind one dog's ear, and then get ready to take a quick picture. If you want to take pictures of dogs, kittens or any small animals, you can throw them all in a basket and limit them to a convenient area.