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Wolfie
Wolfie
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Pet Portrait II (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon Digital IXUS 300
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
Location: My home studio
Date: Dec 12, 2006
Aperture: F/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/60 sec.
Galleries: Animals, Studio
Date Uploaded: Dec 12, 2006

 I never imagined I could get my cat to pose for a single photo, but I somehow got him to stay still for a moment while I snapped a few pictures.

I put him (the cat) on a small square table to keep him from being all over the place, shot the flash using sto-fen diffuser straight at him.

I used a fleece carpet over a door as background and shot the camera handheld. Post Processing involved converting to jpg when I had adjusted the levels in Canon DPP. Used high pass filter to sharpen, desaturated a few colors, curves and a bit of cloning in his left ear, to remove his registration marking. Resized, cropped and sharpened once again using high pass filter and Neat Image to remove some noise in the background.

Statistics
Place: 116 out of 378
Avg (all users): 5.8808
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 5.6308
Avg (non-participants): 6.1308
Views since voting: 1151
Views during voting: 349
Votes: 260
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 12/19/2006 07:42:51 PM
I still love this shot and can't believe it didn't do much better. Anyhow still a great shot of your very pretty cat.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/17/2006 09:31:27 AM
4 - Quite a nice portrait of Wolfie, but the tail chopped is not good and the lighting seems a bit harsh. A few marks in front of the paws which are distracting.
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 12/14/2006 06:47:54 PM
The perfect cat shot and my favorite one here, beautiful pose and lighting, great crop.
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 12/13/2006 06:13:27 PM
Great lighting and focus. The composition is good and the pose as well.
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 12/13/2006 04:57:55 PM
All class and note how the feline contract themselves into such an adorable and compact package. There must be a sense of conceit. lol 8
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 12/13/2006 12:14:35 PM
Love the pose. Nice use of negative space. Nice shot.
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 12/13/2006 10:29:26 AM
Pretty kitty.
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 12/12/2006 07:28:07 PM
Wolfie looks very elegant though the tail would have helped finish the pic..
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