A. Allais

Thank you.Check It Out

Thank you for these comments.
I can’t ““wake up at 4 am for three weeks to get the right light. Climb a cliff. Get a different angle. Sit in a hutch for 3 days”.

My idea is to make “environmental portraits” like Newman does for human : show the animal in its context. The cats and dogs pictures that I see is most often static and doesn’t sho…[Read more]

How did you do to take pictures from both sides of the river ?Check It Out

@nikon-nut : I think that there is money to be done in photography of cats and dogs. There is people who spent a lot of money for their pets and I try to improve my photo skills.

@elizabethk : thank you for the info but the cat is dead… It was very old. It had a totally stupid name : Général Poussy.Check It Out

I inherited it when my mother died with some chinaware and a statue of the virgin at Lourdes which shined in the dark.

I got 17 euros for the statue on ebay (so I could by a tripod) but they don’t accept cats on ebay so I was sticken with it.Check It Out

In fact it was just an old cat. For one year it was pissing, pucking and shitting everywhere. The only things he ever caught in all its life was fleas.Check It Out

Than you @el-dub, I will checkCheck It Out

Thank you, I’ll try to find a tripod on ebay : apparently there is for $15 – 20.Check It Out

@admin you certainly are right but the guards will certainly not let me enter the enclosure (I think that animal can bite you) and the park is cloed at night. I think I’ll try another kind of subject.

@joyce0114 yes but I have a very small budget being unemployed.

But the main problem is that I have lost my right arm in that accident and I…[Read more]

The problem was that I could not get closer : the zoom was at his maximum and there was a fence.

This photo was taken at a zoo near my house and I liked the color of the animal.

I posted the settings with the photo in the album but they are not here.

canon ixus 430
auto, zoom 100%, iso 200, f 5.6Check It Out

This is my first attempt on this forum. I had an accident 2 years ago and I would like to convert me into professional photography. I have no experience at all and I hope you can help me to improve.Check It Out