2019 098-365 Cat's Paw
For Macro Mondays, the challenge was to point the camera directly upwards. I racked my brains to think of an idea, then the cat came and sat on my HP print/scan/copier. This obviously reminded me subconsciously of when she managed to press the scan button. The idea didn't come at once, but the next morning I had the thought that I could sit her on a piece of glass in an empty frame (I'd also recently watched a YouTube video with ideas for portrait photography using glass...).
Going for a safer option, I sat her on a table, with the glass propped between it and a convenient window seat of the same height, with the camera underneath.
Irresistible force then met immovable object, and we had a few 'discussions' over paw placemen; several instances of the glass dropping on the macro lens; cat hairs everywhere, and I mean everywhere!
I finally got two frames shot, using live view, remote tethering, a cable release, and a firm grip on the cat's paw, but not too firm as she argues even more then...
2019 098-365 Cat's Paw
For Macro Mondays, the challenge was to point the camera directly upwards. I racked my brains to think of an idea, then the cat came and sat on my HP print/scan/copier. This obviously reminded me subconsciously of when she managed to press the scan button. The idea didn't come at once, but the next morning I had the thought that I could sit her on a piece of glass in an empty frame (I'd also recently watched a YouTube video with ideas for portrait photography using glass...).
Going for a safer option, I sat her on a table, with the glass propped between it and a convenient window seat of the same height, with the camera underneath.
Irresistible force then met immovable object, and we had a few 'discussions' over paw placemen; several instances of the glass dropping on the macro lens; cat hairs everywhere, and I mean everywhere!
I finally got two frames shot, using live view, remote tethering, a cable release, and a firm grip on the cat's paw, but not too firm as she argues even more then...