Cat Photo

[John Hinton]

This is our cat, Eowyn. She loves to sleep on the arm of the couch in our family room. I managed to capture this shot one evening and just got lucky. As a novice starting out in the field I was pleased with this photo.


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[Compdude]

Quiet and peaceful! Nice lighting.

[Thom Deevers]

absolutely cute! Sometimes I think my family has more cat pics than family pics!

[Bryan Carnathan]

Thanks John - I think that is the first cat picture in the forum! It looks very peaceful.

[John Margaglione]

I agree with the comment that we tend to have more pictures of cats than family. Unless of course you count your pets as family.


Here is one from the archives, a good example of using a wide aperture to center focus on a subject. I don't care where you start looking at this photo, you will always end up looking into the cat's eyes!





Taken with a 70-200mm zoom at 200mm f/2.8, hand-held with IS on.

[Anthony]

Nice one!





Just out of curiosity, what did you use for lighting in this shot?

[John Hinton]

Thanks for commenting, Anthony.


Lighting is a table lamp sitting to the left and slightly behind Eowyn. I used a Canon 30D body with a Tamron zoom set at 80mm and stopped down to 5.6f. Exposure was 1/50 sec. If I recall correctly I used AV.


I shot about ten photos, varying my settings to get this one. Believe me, this was a lucky shot; I was just experimenting and trying to learn to shoot in low light without using a flash.


John

[Patrick Lew]

I don't know about you guys, but it's always an extra challenge trying to get any of my cats to sit still!

[StefanLeipold]

Hi everybody,


Happy New Year and greetings from Germany. I just joined this community.


Taking pictures of cats i alway a challenge ...


This is our little one Mia:[img]/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.22.63/stefanleipold_2D00_12.jpg[/img]

[Max]

Caught the cat checking out the new 85mm 1.2! Looks like she may come after it.[img]/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.23.07/kitten_2D00_3398.jpg[/img]