
If there's one thing I love to photograph, it's my cat, and although it's sometimes a complicated mission, I challenge myself to capture him in unique moments. The thing is, I have to be very careful because he tends to escape the camera lens, or if I move too much, he stops doing what I wanted to capture. For example, this morning dawned very sunny; the sun was shining directly through my living room window, bouncing off the floor, and Tommy loves to sunbathe. He rolls around in the warm sunlight and enjoys it. At that moment, I wanted to start taking pictures of him because he looked so beautiful and cute.

Perhaps the photos aren't the best quality since I used my new phone, which has a pretty basic camera. In fact, the camera is one of its weakest points, but I always try to configure it as best as possible to get a sharper image. Whenever I focus on my cat with this camera, he comes out almost completely white, and I always have to adjust the settings, otherwise he just looks like a ghost. At that moment, I didn't have my other phone with me (which takes much higher quality photos), and if I went to get it, my cat would probably stop sunbathing. So I did what I could with what little I had at the time. What I liked most is that I managed to configure the camera so that almost everything was dark except for the sunlight and my kitten. I love that contrast between the darkness and the light right where he is.

The chiaroscuro effect along with the textures (like the shadow of the window bars) makes these photographs look very beautiful to me, and I couldn't even see them well at the time I took them since I took many in a row hoping that in the end, I could salvage 1, it turns out that I found many photos that I liked.


And the best part is seeing a beautiful kitten feeling confident, enjoying the warmth of the morning sun and recharging its energy for a new day full of mischief.


Fotografias tomadas por mi utilizando un celular Tecno Spark 40C
> Photographs taken by me using a Tecno Spark 40C cell phone
A beautiful cat and great photos. Phone cameras—even the better ones—can’t handle such a wide tonal range in a scene, so in a situation like this, you have to decide what to focus the exposure on. The cat was the most important thing here, and (at least on the phone) it looks OK.