Finally figured out how to fix my cat photos from 3 months ago at my sister's place in Portland

I was looking back at pictures from when I visited my sister in April and all the shots of her orange tabby were just blurs. Like I'd try to get him napping and he'd wake up and move right when I hit the button. Last week I finally tried setting my phone to burst mode and propping my elbow on the arm of the couch. Got three clear ones out of ten tries. Not perfect but way better than before. Has anyone else had luck with a trick like that for moving pets?

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gonzalez.vera20d ago

Burst mode is the obvious fix but have you tried using your phone's pro mode or manual settings? Cranking up the ISO and lowering the shutter speed to like 1/250 can freeze motion without needing burst. The tradeoff is grainier images but for a moving cat it beats twenty blurry shots. Also orange tabbies are especially jumpy in my experience, something about that color pattern makes them prone to sudden zoomies.

beth55920d ago

You said orange tabbies are especially jumpy and I had to laugh. My friend Kim has an orange tabby named Nacho and that cat is literally a blur in 90% of her photos. She tried the pro mode thing you mentioned @gonzalez.vera but she kept missing the shot because she was fumbling with settings. One time Nacho did a full backflip off the couch chasing a fly and she ended up with a photo of just his tail and the ceiling fan. She gave up and just uses burst mode on everything now, even when he's sleeping just in case he suddenly springs to life.