On Furthering The Cuteness of Wednesday: Our Cats

What with the introduction of hedgehogs and kitties attacking tube monsters, I figured I’d add to the mid-week mush by (finally) posting our menagerie.

Subject: Patches
Location: Her favourite hairy chair (now gone)
Nickname: Princess
Activity: Giving you the chin
Disposition: Princessly
Profile: Patches is the needy princess of the household. She needs plenty of attention, and when she doesn’t get it she’ll mewl and paw at you to get some. She likes her food in a particular spot, which changes from feeding to feeding, sometimes, several times during the course of a meal. She’s sweet though, and is perfectly content to sleep in your lap.
Additional Resources: Comfy Cabinet, Boo!, Chillin’, yo.

Subject: Charlie
Nickname: Charlie Horse
Location: Comforter Interational Airport
Activity: Trying, and failing, to work out the basic mechanics of flight
Disposition: Cuddly
Profile: Charlie is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggling big he is. But his girth is matched only by his overreaching friendliness. He loves a good scritch in the fir, and will perform a marvelous Stevie Wonder impression (with the addition of licking at nothing) if you scratch his kindquarters, right by the base of the tail. He loves to cuddle up to you and, if given half an opportunity, will groom you raw.
Additional Resources: My puppy!, Tongue!, What?, Sleep tight, little one

Subject: Tilly
Nickname: Cutey
Location: Bunker 7
Activity: Reconnoitering enemy activity
Disposition: Perpetual kitten
Profile: Though more than 3 years old now, she still has the playfulness of a kitten in her. She still loves chasing pretty much anything, visible or not. She also loves the pettins at any available opportunity.
Additional Resources: Just let me sleep, Streeeeech, HEY!, Snooch, There’s treasure in them thar chair backs!

Subject: Dutchess
Nickname: Heat Monster
Location: Overlook
Activity: Watching the wildlife
Disposition: Indifferent
Profile: Dutchess is an independent soul and doesn’t really care what anyone thinks of her. Although there are times when she will want attention and can willfully jump into your lap to get it, she spends most of her time wandering about and patrolling the grounds. She’s also noisy and it’s often difficult to tell whether she’s in heat or just giving a shout out to her posse.
Additional Resources: Lazy, Tongue! (a sequel), I’m cute, right?

Additional Additional Resources Resources: Bed o’ Fur

Additional Three Amigos resources: Put 'em up, put 'em up!, Nap time!, Bottlecap Hockey, Where the Fishies? I want me some Fishies!, Pillow, Checkin’ things out

You must share some tips for taking cat pictures - you take great ones! Do you 'nip them first? Promise a share of the profits? Promise a shot at stardom? I have beautiful cats who turn into inanimate lumps of fur the instant a camera enters the room! Advice from an pro would be thankfully accepted!

Kittykittykittykittykittykittykittykittykittykittykittykittykittykittykitty!!!111!!

:smiley: Sorry. Mindfield, you have some majorly pettable pets there.

I wish I could say I had a secret or some expertise in photography, but I’m mostly just familiar with some basics. Some of those pictures were taken with different cameras, though some of the clearer ones were taken with my current camera, a Kodak DX6490, which allows some modicum of control over aperture size and exposure time. Mostly I take pictures in manual mode with an aperture of f2.8 and an exposure time of 1/8th of a second, using flash as the lighting demands. If possible I set up a tripod and increase exposure time to enhance the image detail and brightness. This doesn’t work well on moving targets though, unless your intent is to photograph streaks. :slight_smile:

Other that I just point, get the camera to focus on the subject, and shoot. Most of the cool shots are simply having a camera handy and turned on (or quick access to it) and catchinga candid shot when the opportunity presents itself.

Quite alright. My kitties thank you – but after all that kitty calling they’re wondering where you’re hinding the food.