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You just take shit pictures. Low angles, sometimes LOWER than the cat, plus bokeh [portrait mode on a phone]. Pay attention to your background and composure.

In each picture on top the lens is the same level or lower as the cats eyes.

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It’s funnier to take bad pictures tho. Why else would I have a cat?

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en, your mileage may vary on portrait mode. fur is what is struggles the most with. personally I’d go for getting close and letting the natural depth of field shine through for what it’s worth. most phones are at like an f:/2.8. they can have natural bokeh, they’re just ultra wide angle so you gotta get close.

it may just be me, but those wonky edges make it look worse than if it just didn’t have the effect at all.

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You’re totally right. I try and push it so that the portrait process is just enhancing the already there lens bokeh. But when I really want it to look right I just get the Alpha.

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5 points

Depth of field is also playing a huge role in the stock “nice” images.

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It can also be difficult to take a photo of a moving cat. Some cats don’t stay still long enough to get a decent shot.

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40 points

Social media effect, the odds are not in your favour. Comparing your random pictures to the best pictures of thousands of other people combined into one entity.

Mathematically, you shouldn’t be able to randomly happen accross even one picture that compares, let alone is better than any one of the top rated posts on a social media site.

Having said that, pictures of a cat you care about automatically get bonus points to you and you’ll like your pictures way more than what are effectively the equivalent of super model cats you don’t have any investment in.

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-8 points

K?

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My apologies, I took your post as though you were being serious. Wanted to explain that you shouldn’t feel bad and why.

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No worries lol, I just got very strong r/iamverysmart vibes. Thank you for the info! The meme is really just to make fun of the cat, which tends to be my day job

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Maybe your answer was not needed here but it is a very important one nonetheless! Especially when people compare themselves to the internet!

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11 points

look at your cat in the eyes and close your eyes slowly and leave them closed.

they need to know that you trust them

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I dont trust him.

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28 points

Orange, never had a turn with the braincell.

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He hears the screams of the bits of carpet he hasn’t thrown up on yet.

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