{"id":3635,"date":"2019-08-15T04:27:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2019-08-15T04:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:27:03","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-props-for-photographing-your-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 Props for Photographing Your Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last week I posted a close up of Lily on my facebook page and people seemed to love it. She is a pretty girl. But she and Sophie aren\u2019t always easy to photograph. Some of my favorite pictures of my cats and other cats involve a prop. It doesn\u2019t take much\u2014an unusual basket, an ornate chair, the piano, a vase of flowers, cat motif pieces, a window, another cat\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve taken pictures of our cats exploring the dishwasher and refrigerator, getting to know \"\"various ceramic cats and cats created from other materials. Check out this blanket of cats as a backdrop for Sophie.<\/p>\n

Bring in a box and your cats will react. In fact bring in anything different to the room and get your camera ready. The curiosity of a cat is definitely to a photographer\u2019s advantage. Sometimes you can predict what \"\"a cat will do, thus set up a photo op. Does your cat go crazy for running water, for example? Maybe she has a tortoise friend she greets every morning or she typically crawls into the cat food cabinet and poses with a bag of kibbles as a reminder to feed her. Don\u2019t let another day go by without documenting some of these interesting shots. Your cat may end up going viral on the Internet or you\u2019ll simply have a cute photo to show off to friends and relatives. A photo similar to this one showing Lily with the alphabet blocks won a spot on Workman’s Cat-a-Day Calendar one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I posted a close up of Lily on my facebook page and people seemed to love it. She is a pretty girl. But she and Sophie aren\u2019t always easy to photograph. Some of my favorite pictures of my … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}