Meet my adorable guinea pig Lies. I know her name is a bit unfortunate in English, but I swear it is a Dutch girl's name.
I love to take photos of her because her expression is always a bit dorky. She's a very large guinea pig and very fluffy. She makes a great piggy model for my magical guinea pig photographs.
I have had Lies since she was a little baby. That was almost 2 years ago. I can't believe she used to fit into a small tea cup. I can guarantee she won't fit in any kind of cup now. She's a big girl.
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The props I use are mostly secondhand or homemade. The ghosts in the spooky photo for example are just handkerchiefs tied with a bit of rope and some googly eyes glued on them. Sometimes keeping it simple is the key to a great prop.
A question I get very often is: how do you get your guinea pigs to stay still for photos? And the answer to that is: I don't. You have to be really quick. Make sure you have your photo setup and camera settings ready. You'll only get a few seconds to get your photo, so you don't want to waste those precious seconds to get your camera settings right.
Lies usually runs away from the photosetting after 30 seconds. If I put her back after that she just runs away immediately. And that's OK. It's her way of telling me she's done being a piggy model.
Sometimes that is a bit discouraging because setting up or creating the props took me several hours. But your pet should always be on #1. So if they don't feel like being a model, you should just try again some other day.
The photos make lovely memories, so to me, it's definitely worth the effort.
