Inspired, of course, by yanko. His shot is better, but I've always wanted a good head-on shot of Joe.
Single Nikon speedlight, through 2 diffusion panels above and in front of the cat, who is perched on a chair covered with black cloth. Allex, also dressed in black, is holding him in place. It took about 50 shots to get him to look at the camera.
Post processing:
Conversion from raw in Lightroom:
* crop
* white balance
* levels and contrast
* increase saturation
* decrease green and blue luminosity to -100 (His eyes were reflecting a piece of blue art in the background. Decreasing the luminosity fixed this.)
* decrease magenta saturation to -100 (fix CA problem on whiskers)
In PS:
* hue/sat layer to increase saturation in yellow eyes.
* USM to improve local contrast
* resize
* smart sharpen
* save for web
Post challenge: As Art Roflmao said, I'm going to have to work with Joe, to get him to flap his wings. I need something besides hummingbirds for my profile page.
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