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My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Cardboard Box (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Date: Jul 27, 2008
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200 sec
Galleries: Interior, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jul 27, 2008

Put the kitty (Lea) in the box, took a few shots. One AB400 shot through a white umbrella up above somewhere. Shot at 22mm.

Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance, exposure, recovery

PS:
Rotate
Crop
Curves (Acid)
Selective Color (blackened up the whites)
Black and White (for desat)
Dodge, burn, clone here and there
Resize
USM (70/.7/0)
Save for web

Statistics
Place: 49 out of 95
Avg (all users): 5.6825
Avg (commenters): 7.5000
Avg (participants): 5.5185
Avg (non-participants): 5.7481
Views since voting: 839
Views during voting: 374
Votes: 189
Comments: 12
Favorites: 1 (view)


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08/10/2008 04:35:13 PM
Critique Club Review:

Color Saturation and Hue: Colors are good, Saturation is very good, and Hues appear accurate for the subject.

Brightness and contrast: Brightness and contrast are excellent. Whites are white. Shadows have good detail, and even the white fur holds the detail well in all but the brightest highlighted areas.

Focus and depth of field: Focus is excellent, as is depth of field. Detail is apparent from the top of the box to the bottom.

Sharpness appears a little over processed as evidenced by a little bit of the jaggies in the thinner section of the cat's whiskers. However this could also be an artifact of resizing.

You did a nice job on the lighting. The catch-lights in the cat's eyes are done very well. And of course the cat has the standard "are you about done?", look that most cats get when we want them to do something for us.

The box shape makes it so that the cat is centered left to right, which may have hurt your score somewhat with the technical purisits. Challenge purists would have voted slightly lower also, as the cat is the subject, rather than the box.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/03/2008 11:29:26 PM
Beautiful colored coat on your cat. Nice angle.
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08/03/2008 09:20:37 AM
Great shot & great crop to make it pop.
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08/02/2008 02:40:23 PM
nice comp 10
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07/31/2008 11:58:12 PM
Lovely cat and nice perspective for "finding" her.
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07/31/2008 12:06:42 PM
Interesting composition.
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07/31/2008 09:39:16 AM
Interesting perspective
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07/28/2008 08:51:16 PM
I lioke the perspective. I can't believe the cat sat around for the photo! You're good!
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07/28/2008 04:35:46 PM
This looks so much like my cat it's scary. 6
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07/28/2008 04:19:56 PM
So does mine, especially when the 2-year old is looking for him!
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07/28/2008 02:47:23 PM
Very cool perspective.
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07/28/2008 02:29:59 AM
First, lovely kitty! Second, really LOVE the vertical composition to this and the dark to light tones of the box. Everything blends beautifully - even the color of the cat. You could almost miss that tongue - it blends so well with his coloration.
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