When You Ask a Photographer Friend to Babysit Your Cat…

Photographer and actor Josell Mariano recently had a friend ask him to babysit her beloved cat, Jade. He decided to use his time with the blue tabby cat to do a photoshoot.

“If I babysit the cat for more than 3 days, the photos just happen,” Mariano says.

Mariano shot portraits of Jade with a single strobe through a large diffused beauty dish located to camera right. He was using a Canon 6D Mark II with a 50mm f/1.8 at f/8 and 1/100s.

Mariano has since created a dedicated Instagram account for Jade and has now taken a position as her manager, agent, and poop scooper.

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Image credits: Photographs by Josell Mariano and used with permission