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    Great focus and DOF Denise, I think I'd like to play poker with Sammy, his face lights up when he is happy.
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    Thanks, Steve! Just took Sammy to the vet this a.m. ...no second surgery on his bladder is needed as originally thought!! We are both grinning from ear to ear today

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    Great news for Sammy, you and the bank balance.
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    Miss Cal again.

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    A couple pictures of my cats

    First, our 3-year old cat. Shot using 60D and 135L at f/2.0, 1/160 second, and ISO 400.

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    Second, our kitten. Shot using same gear as above at f/2.0, 1/200 second, and ISO 200.

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    Cute cats. Here are ours fighting (playing) in the garden this morning. Black cats do pose a dynamic range problem...


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    Great cat shots, I'll break the flow and add, my svelte athletic whippet Bindi, who is seen here striking a pose after being forced to go swimming again.
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    Tail between the legs... I thought dogs were meant to like swimming??

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    Quote Originally Posted by w349 View Post
    Cute cats. Here are ours fighting (playing) in the garden this morning. Black cats do pose a dynamic range problem...

    I really like this shot. Did you do anything in PP to bring out the black?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ahab1372 View Post
    I really like this shot. Did you do anything in PP to bring out the black?
    Thank you! And yes I did. I shot in raw and ramped up the exposure and set the blacks to 0 (I probably did some other stuff too, but those were the most important) to give the black cat some sort of discernible texture, this resulted in the rest of the image becoming overexposed and washed out. I then opened the image as a smart object (hold Alt in Adobe camera raw), made a copy via smart object, then re-opened the copy in camera raw and adjusted it the way I wanted it. I rasterized both layers and then used a mask to lightly brush shadow detail into the black cat.

    It sounds like a lot of effort for very little visible effect... and you'd be right! But black fur is such a pain to shoot.

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