Happy 2005! Peace, Love, Health and Ribbon!
by Luxvich

Comment:
Congrats on your first blue! Very impressive.

he is my comfort
by bruski

Comment:
Congrats on your 5th placement and your lovely companions.

a little to the left...please?
by birdyblue

Comment:
Beautiful picture, congrats on your 4th placement. Your Grey is cute!

Blondes
by cloudsme

Comment:
Congrats on your 6th placement. Very nice shot. This was my second favourite (9).

kissy face
by jmritz

Comment:
Congrats on your ribbon, very cheerful, lovely models, that's really a relationship. (How is her right ear, btw? :)

Wanna fight?
by Nazgul

Comment:
Congrats on your first ribbon! Very lovely pic. This is unanimously our (my wife and me) favourite for this challenge, you deserved the blue. I knew you would finish very high :)

Charm
by Albireo

Comment:
Thanks everybody for the nice comments and criticism. This was a great Christmas gift.
I agree, the lighting could have been better and I also wish the cat looked straight in her eye, but to tell the truth, he was not very willing to pose and so I had only a few attempts :) nevertheless, we have a very affectionate relationship with him, but the thing is he decides the moments... Great thanks to my elder daughter for posing (she was willing, lol).
I did not add comments at the time of submitting, so here are the details:

Lighting is fully natural, mid afternoon, east looking window, cloudy but not overcast. I fastened a semi-transparent plastic sheet to the window to get the homogenous backdrop.
Prost processing steps, other than crop and resize were:
- Neat Image to get rid of some noise patterns in the background
- Sepia Toning
- Adjusted Brightness higher a bit

Message edited by author 2004-12-29 08:18:15.

Arcade
by Albireo

Comment:
Thank you for all your nice comments and encouraging. I learned something again. The fact is that I did not anticipate this photograph to finish so high in the voting. I had some other submission candidates, one of them taken also in the cathedral and others with different themes. Now I see that choosing this one was a good decision.
As for the actual crop, I did not want to include the end of the corridor and the floor because there were some distracting elements which - I think - would have ruined the purity of the scene.

Kiss Me Baby
by Albireo

Comment:
Thanks for all your comments. You gave me a good deal of positive stimulation.
p.s. The bellpepper fell victim to breakfast. We felt really sorry for it :-)

Message edited by author 2004-11-11 07:31:50.