Rescued cat - one of the Cat Protection cats, who didn't take long to find a new home. Please feel free to criticise - I'm hoping to become a better photographer, so the more comments the better.
Nice pussy! Overall a great pic, got the eyes sharp too. Would suggest loosing the crap coloured fabic orange thingy - no not the cat! What Aperture was that ? F4 ?
Thank you. It was a grab shot of a cat in his basket in the cat shelter, so didn't have chance to remove the blanket, else I would have lost the pose! Not sure what aperture. (It is quite an old photo, with a different camera and the EXIF info is rubbish.) I just like the picture, but don't have the Photoshop skills to change the blanket without messing up the cat's colour.
lovely pic! hope you don't mind but i was faffing around with the new copy of photoshop that i got... i think it really shows off his colours!
That's very nice! Much better job than I made of it when I was messing around with PS7. Presumably you desaturated one layer, then masked? I once entered this in a competition at our local camera club and the judge, after saying he didn't like cats, said that it was spoiled by the orange blanket and that I should have changed it for a different colour. (He also dissed a good photo of the (then new) R32 because he didn't like the reflection in the door! Said I should have moved it - I would have been happy to oblige, if it were mine!) I'll have another play with it next week when I'm not at work, see if I can't improve it. Thanks for giving me the idea.
yea i de-saturated then masked... tis so easy after seeing a tutorial on it. lol people in competitions get soooo fickle over things like that... all very well if you've got a studio and a bucket of cash to throw at stuff to photograph.
