Hi Im new to the forums, thought Id put my first post here since I love Cats and Kittens or any small ball of joyful fluff. A good guide indeed, although Ive found to wait until they are asleep or busy doing something else before picking up my camera, you can call them, whistle or grab a newspaper and scrunch it, the noise makes them whip their head round with wide open eyes so get ready to shoot the moment you scrunch.
I say 'busy' meaning cleaning themselves, looking out the window etc, because there attention is not on you, so you can use the surprise element of noise to get them with wide eyes, more often that not a Cat will look at you with love in its eyes and start squinting. Im quite lucky as my Cat is a complete poser, and has become quite used to the clicking shutter on my camera, which annoying but rather unsurprisingly she used to leap at everytime it clicked
If you can, stroke their face a few minutes before you photograph to help remove dust from their fur and settle down again.
I dont mean to be rude especially as a newbie to the forum, but if like Peach's sisters cat it gets thrown out and water put on its head its not going to retaliate by being comfortable around you in the future. Any animal needs to be comfortable and feel safe around you if its going to let you get close enough to take a photo, otherwise its just going to bite, scratch or run to the other site of the room.
As Major_small says regards nail clipping, you wouldnt want throwing out of your home after having water thrown at you, its not the best way to gain a relationship with any person/animal. Dont chase it either or itll be scared, if it doesnt want its photograph taken, dont, it might be more sociable later or tomorrow, its not like your at the zoo where you wont have access to opportunity except on that one day. Sadly I dont, since my cat was run over a week after I took the photo below, so its my last picture of her
Heres my contribution.
