Taking Bunny Pictures
Akiko
I love looking at the pictures you've taken and posted of your buns!
Would appreciate it if those of you with experience in bunny picture
taking would share your thoughts with those of us who are not so great
at it or who want to get more into it....
1) What kind of camera are you using? Any suggestions for good
models/brands of camera? Very useful features?
2) I'd guess that the best conditions to photograph in would be one
with good, natural light, so you don't have to use a flash and risk
"red eye" and "startled, then irritated bunny." What other conditions
do you find help create good pictures?
3) Do you do anything to get your bunny to pose for a picture? I've
had to confine mine to a chair, blocked in by fresh veggies to get the
one good set of shots that I have of them. Otherwise, they wiggle
around, turn around and show me their butts, wander off, etc.
4) Anyone got any great bunny picture taking stories to share?
Thanks!
Dawnsong
we use a digital camera so we can take loads of photos and pick out
the ones that work. Photo sessions usually involve me sitting on
the floor at their level and just clicking away constantly :0)
Sometimes Chloe has a nibble at the corner of the camera whilst I am
taking photos of the babys. LOL
I put food down so that they stop running now and then, but
generally I just take huge quantitys of photos and hope for the
best.
Keryn
PeteAlway
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wrote:
Photo sessions usually involve me sitting on
the floor at their level and just clicking away constantly :0)
I've gone so far as to set the camera on the ground and point it vaguely at a
rabbit to get a rabbit's-eye-view. And cropping the shots a whole lot.
Peter Alway
Rooting for the Rabbit
Karin, Daffy and Eric
just keep clicking and you won't have to worry about the cost of film.
Usually I get one good picture out of every ten or fifteen that I take.
Rabbits move around so much that the majority of the pics always seem to
feature just a tail, a paw or the back of a head :-)
I usually just get down on the floor with them, on my stomach. They seem to
find it quite entertaining to see me sprawled out, and come running over to
investigate.
--
Karin
Daffy and Eric in quarantine until November 19, 2002
Debbi Trudell
around and then uses our computer to create still frames from the
section of the video that he wants to use. It makes for very natural
shots of catching our bun "in the act" of whatever she is doing at the
minute.
Debbi
D. Stussy
>I love looking at the pictures you've taken and posted of your buns!
>
>Would appreciate it if those of you with experience in bunny picture
>taking would share your thoughts with those of us who are not so great
>at it or who want to get more into it....
>
>1) What kind of camera are you using? Any suggestions for good
>models/brands of camera? Very useful features?
For most of them I use a standard, disposable camera, and get the pictures on
film. I then use my scanner to create a digital image.
Occasionally, I have used a video camera and a capture board in my computer
directly.
>2) I'd guess that the best conditions to photograph in would be one
>with good, natural light, so you don't have to use a flash and risk
>"red eye" and "startled, then irritated bunny." What other conditions
>do you find help create good pictures?
What's wrong with "the demon bunny from hell" approach? ;-)
>3) Do you do anything to get your bunny to pose for a picture? I've
>had to confine mine to a chair, blocked in by fresh veggies to get the
>one good set of shots that I have of them. Otherwise, they wiggle
>around, turn around and show me their butts, wander off, etc.
Depends on the rabbit. Sometimes, a raisin helps (especially because if there
were only one, the rabbit is eating it and no other food is visible). Over 90%
of my pictures are without food treats.
At my site, only ONE picture was staged: Ralphable on the radio. I actually
held Him with my left hand out of camera view. Although some of them might be
arranged, all of the rest of them are where the rabbits have complete freedom to
move - and I also get about 1 picture in 8 or 10 which aren't usable because
someone moved. Others have lighting problems, etc., .... Even Ralphable's
visit to/in the refrigerator was with Him fully mobile and unrestricted.
>4) Anyone got any great bunny picture taking stories to share?
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John Cowart
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> 1) What kind of camera are you using?
Both film (Nikon 20/20) and digital (Fuji MX-2900)
> Any suggestions for good
> models/brands of camera? Very useful features?
The most useful features are a fairly long zoom telephoto lens so that
you can work from further away, and fast film, so that you don't have to
use flash.
> 3) Do you do anything to get your bunny to pose for a picture?
I've found these work well: open the curtains so that sunlight falls on
a large area of carpet. Wait for rabbit to stretch out and work on it's
tan. And, strangely enough, you can get good head & shoulder shots when
they are using the litter box - it's one of the few times they
voluntarily stay put in one place for several seconds.
John Cowart
Pinktrixrabbit
can delete the pics you don't like and its easy to get them onto the computer
then.
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J M
only save the best ones. I find keeping the camera handy when the buns are
hopping around the apartment the easieat way to get pictures of them doing
cute things.
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Akiko
> Akiko wrote:
> >
> > 3) Do you do anything to get your bunny to pose for a picture?
>
> I've found these work well: open the curtains so that sunlight falls on
> a large area of carpet. Wait for rabbit to stretch out and work on it's
> tan. And, strangely enough, you can get good head & shoulder shots when
> they are using the litter box - it's one of the few times they
> voluntarily stay put in one place for several seconds.
>
> John Cowart
Thank you, EVERYONE, for your suggestions!
John, your ideas on "posing" a rabbit are great! And I never thought
of taking a head and shoulder shot while my buns were in the
litterbox... but you're right! They WILL stay still there for a bit...
=)
Akiko
Thank you for your answers!
Here's a dumb question from one whose home state doesn't have wild
rabbits.... only pet rabbits who have been set free/escaped (a sad
fate for a pet rabbit, methinks)...
Um... isn't a cottontail a wild rabbit?
Are some of your rabbits cottontails?
Thanks!
D. Stussy
>Are some of your rabbits cottontails?
All of my rabbits are genetically wild and their lineage is native to this area.
My back yard is within their "extended" range, and my next-door neighbor's back
yard is within their usual range.
PS: The Mighty "Buck" (the father rabbit) has returned to the scene after a six
month absence in some other female rabbit's territory.
Marylee or ML
that girl...
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>Photo sessions usually involve me sitting on
>the floor at their level and just clicking away constantly :0)
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>I've gone so far as to set the camera on the ground and point it vaguely at a
>rabbit to get a rabbit's-eye-view. And cropping the shots a whole lot.
>
>Peter Alway
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>Rooting for the Rabbit
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Marylee, Muffy (the original snackmaster), baz,+ murphy(the chin)---> pics
->http://photos.yahoo.com/terbobun3
Stacey
download the pics onto my computer with the push of one button. The pics are
saved automatically in a folder named the date of the day you download them.
The dock also charges the batteries once the pics are downloaded. I bought a
128MB memory card for it too because I have to take all my pics at the highest
quality (I'm spoiled now). The card was kind of expensive, but I can take
200-250 highest quality pics with it.
Stacey (remove the "onions" to reply)
Brett & Hannah (bunnies)
Ben & Max ('tiels)
Samantha (guinea pig)
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(updated 10/3/02)