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Essence of Cat
MaryO


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Challenge: The Eyes Have It! (Basic Editing)
Collection: Cats
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon
Location: Fairfax, VA
Date: Feb 4, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 4, 2008

 Out of my box again, so we'll see how this fares :-)

I wanted to get just the basics of a cat face, with the eyes drawing immediate attention. I picked this cat because he was conveniently a buff tabby against an off-white wall. In this shot I liked his pose looking off into the distance, the exposure was light enough to be a good starting point, and there are great catchlights in his eyes. I was hoping that would give me just enough leeway to keep decent eye color while lightening up everything else for a high key effect.

A little noisy and soft but I don't see another way around that in Basic other than what I already tried. Soft actually suits the personality of this particular cat.

PP - converted from RAW (+1 exposure), NeatImage, cropped, levels to get the high key look, decreased saturation slightly to get back to tone down the yellow, added border, resized, USM twice, decreased gamma and increased contrast, shifted greenish hue to yellow, sharpened with noise reduction.

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Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 02/16/2008 09:05:50 AM
Great shot!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon PowerShot Pro1
 02/11/2008 01:24:43 AM
kitty kitty
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Pentax K20D
Pentax DA 16-45mm f/4.0 ED AL AF
 02/10/2008 11:56:42 AM
over exposed
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 02/09/2008 08:02:41 PM
Great capture of eye color. Could be improved by using more contrast between the cat & the background; you can't tell where the cat ends
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 EX DG for Canon
 02/09/2008 04:21:51 PM
bleaching out background makes you focus on eyes. eyes look a bit blurry possible camera shake?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
 02/06/2008 07:37:31 PM
Way too overexposed for my taste.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Pentax K10D
Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF
 02/06/2008 12:53:17 PM
The idea of making it very bright was a good one as it does focus attention on the eyes, but you needed the eyes to be sharp and it appears the cat was moving.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D7000
Nikon MF Zoom-Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AIS
 02/06/2008 10:57:19 AM
Beautifully done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z9
Nikon NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S
 02/06/2008 09:46:19 AM
Too blurry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D3300
 02/06/2008 06:46:41 AM
way too overexposed and blurred, besides not being an eye photograph
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 02/06/2008 12:48:04 AM
Too bright for me. Feels over exposed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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