Cats are never easy subjects to photograph, even while asleep can be challenging. But I must admit I've done it, everyone living with cats has done it, and that has helped me get better at taking pictures of cats and people.
For instance, photographing cats has tought me that shooting fast is more important than having the best composition. Shooting fast means also changed from "take the camera out as fast as possible and shoot" to "shoot as many as you can and as fast as you can"
And about being fast comes the next tricky part: To be able to shoot fast you need either a high ISO (which might mean grainy pictures) or a fast lens. And that's where the hobby starts to get expensive.
I started shooting with an f/4.5 lens, then a f/3.5 and now I feel useless if I don't have at least a f/2.8. The lower the number the higher the aperture. More aperture means more light, more light means less exposure, less exposure means faster pictures. Sounds like a class, confusing and boring, but I wish someone had told me that in that way.
Great pictures by the way, please keep on shooting and sharing about your cats. I might write a post about the two that live here in my house.
Thank you so much for the tips! It isn't easy taking photographs of cats indeed, I hate that it's so hard to catch them being still, they always wanna go and do something or smell. We have a few different lenses because my husband @matt-a used to do some photography in the past and I just love to take pictures of cats and food, trying to learn more about it. I usually set my ISO to auto and only adjust aperture, sometimes it gets too overwhelming trying to understand everything at once haha.
THANK YOU!
Aperture priority is great, keep doing that. The camera will figure out the rest and you'll have that amazing bokeh while still capturing your subjects in detail and fast. I'm following @matt-a now!