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Afternoon glow

Postby blacknstormy on Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:33 pm

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Taken late this afternoon, with the golden rays of a setting sun streaming through the rails on the stairs :)
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Postby Alex on Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:42 pm

That's a great photo, Rel, with fantastic lighting.
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Postby Ladybird on Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:53 pm

Hey Rel,

Nice shot! It shows the peaceful nature that cats have....before it leaps over the rails and kills some poor bird :P .

Did you have your camera with you at the time or did you have to go and grab it? My cat would never sit still enough for me to catch a shot like this. And just to annoy me, he would probably move just as I was about to take the shot and then look at me as if it wasn't planned.

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Postby Yi-P on Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:00 pm

Very nice personalification from this picture.. Well done Rel!!

I really like it :)
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Postby blacknstormy on Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:45 pm

Thanks Alex, Ladybird, & YiP :)

I was just on my way to make a coffee, and looked out the front door to see this - grabbed my camera (she's used to me doing that), laid on the floor in the middle of the hallway and took the shot :) She was too busy looking at the little dog that lives next door to take any notice of me ;)

I realise that it is a bit of a shit of a composition, but she was sitting on the step down, so had to do with what I had :) .. but it'll do :)

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Postby Manta on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:05 pm

Rel - you've seen my comments on digitalslr. Great shot!!
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Postby gstark on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:15 pm

Rel,

This will look even better (IMHO) if you crop it square. Kill the free space aboive her head, and tell me what you think.
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Postby big pix on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:19 pm

gstark wrote:Rel,

This will look even better (IMHO) if you crop it square. Kill the free space aboive her head, and tell me what you think.


........ agree with gary...... but very very nice.......
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Postby Manta on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:21 pm

gstark wrote:Rel,
Kill the free space aboive her head, and tell me what you think.


Exactly what I said on the other forum Gary - as well as cloning out that little orange reflection in the foreground
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Postby gstark on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:26 pm

Manta wrote:as well as cloning out that little orange reflection in the foreground


Hmmm ... to crop, or to clone?

That is the question. :)
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Postby blacknstormy on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:32 pm

lol - I spose the answer was to crop as requested :)

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Postby Manta on Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:33 pm

Now there's a shot!!!
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Postby Geoff on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:42 pm

Brilliant Rel!! :)
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Postby Justin on Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:49 pm

sorry I like the original. the nice bokeh gives a sense of space to the image, the crop looks crammed in.

Another crop option would be as a landscape from the top of the ears, down as far as you can in a normal 6x4 ratio, or go for a manual crop.
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Postby Reschsmooth on Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:42 am

Great shot, although I would recommend cloning a dog in place of the cat :twisted: (just kidding)
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Postby Ladybird on Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:27 am

[quote="Justin"]sorry I like the original. the nice bokeh gives a sense of space to the image, the crop looks crammed in.quote]

Hey Rel,

I'd have to agree with Justin, although I originally thought there may be too much space above the head, the cropped version loses something.
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Postby gstark on Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:00 am

Patrick, yes.

Or maybe clone in a mouse on the left?

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