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Nice to see a bobcat here let alone a kitten. The pose and detail are spot on. My first though was this was flashed. But it is well balanced. This would have made a nice vertical as well. This is great as is though. Background is killer. Nice one.
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Originally Posted by
John Mack
Nice to see a bobcat here let alone a kitten. The pose and detail are spot on. My first though was this was flashed. But it is well balanced. This would have made a nice vertical as well. This is great as is though. Background is killer. Nice one.
Thanks John. The photo was taken in total darkness. I had to use a flashlight on the kitten to get my AF to work. It is therefore a 100% flashed image with no ambient light in the exposure.
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A really cool shot of the cat Doug. The central placement and those big eyes with front paws showing works well. God use of the flashlight. Are the eyes a bit grainy and natural or is it noise? Just curious
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Sanjeev Aurangabadkar
A really cool shot of the cat Doug. The central placement and those big eyes with front paws showing works well. God use of the flashlight. Are the eyes a bit grainy and natural or is it noise? Just curious
Thanks Sanjeev! What you're seeing is texture in the iris. There's very little noise in the original file as it was shot at ISO 400 with a 1Dx. I did push the exposure 1/3 stop in post, but that had a negligible effect on noise.
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Hi Doug -- Great to see you posting here. I absolutely loved the pose and the typical cat like inquisitiveness in its eye. I myself have struggled with flash especially controlling its intensity and have ruined many images, hence, this turns out to be an image to look over and get some inspiration. You field work must have been really good to get this so nicely framed and pin sharp inspite of using that big tele with a TC and a low ss, nice use of flash in this case.
I really enjoyed viewing this image.
TFS !
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Thank you all for the comments!