With Christmas quietly approaching, I’ve been doing a lot of animal portraiture recently – and even more recently, it seems everybody has a black cat or two tucked away somewhere. I’ve decided it must be something to do with Halloween!
Richard called me, saying he wanted a special gift for his girlfriend – a couple of nice canvas pictures of their two 6 month old kittens. He wanted studio style portraits, so I gathered my gear and headed off to his home in Hampshire.
Here’s a few pictures of his kittens…
Cute aren’t they? No, I can’t tell them apart either. A lively pair, they gave Richard a good chunk of work to do, gathering each one up and replacing him each time he decided to be elsewhere – but we got the shots we wanted in the end.
It’s often something of a challenge with black animals such as these, to make sure you get a good representation of the animal’s fur, and keep lots of detail in it – but at the same time, it still needs to look black. It’s difficult to see, on these little websized versions of the pictures, but I think we got it pretty well licked
Towards the end of the session, the kittens began to get restless, so we let them run free in the garden – whilst I ran off some extra shots before they bolted completely.
Nice cats, nice shoot, lovely pictures. Job done. nice.
Rob.
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