Thread: Taking photos

Originally Posted by elismom

I struggle with eyeshine as well with Eli and red-eye with my blue-eyed kitten! On top of this unless the light is very bright and thereby I don't need the flash, Eli just looks like a shadow with eyeshine!
Thanks for the helpful tip about fixing eyeshine. You're right, it would have been sad to lose the picture above. Fantastic looking cats you have!

Photographing black cats is definitely the hardest. Pretty much have to use flash and have a lens that allows you to get close ups or you don't see much. I have tried with the neighbor's black cat that lives on our porch.

Here are zoomed crops showing what was done to Allie's eyes in the photos I posted: