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CanonCarolyn
July 18, 2014
This photo caught attention! It is a beautiful picture!!! The colors, the clarity, the cute subject! :)
1guysportsphotography
July 30, 2014
I am not a big cat person but this is such a great image, well done!!!!
mclough
August 04, 2014
Im a cat person, but regardless of that I too think this is a wonderful photo! Your Tyson is beautifully captured :))
JonSeymour
August 05, 2014
I love this, and I'm as guilty as anyone of posting cat pictures.... He is a handsome kitty though, and the colours are beautiful
vsidles
August 06, 2014
This is truly one of the most beautiful kitty photos I've ever seen! Just spectacular!!!
njkerosky
December 30, 2014
Incredibly Lovely Capture!!!...Purrrrfect entry for my "I Love Cats" Photo Challenge on Viewbug!...Please check it out on the Viewbug Challenge Page...Thanks for sharing!!!
Meshuggener
January 18, 2015
Stunning photo and a gorgeous kitty ♥
I definitely prefer this one to the original, I like how you've removed some elements that were quite distracting.
I definitely prefer this one to the original, I like how you've removed some elements that were quite distracting.
RhondaMcD
November 29, 2015
I can't say enough great things about this photo. It's stunning. Congratulations.
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Behind The Lens
Location
I actually took the image in a tree in my backyard. It turned out to make the perfect location for a fall feline portrait!Time
Early afternoon, I believe. Around 1PM or so.Lighting
The lighting is 100% natural. The sun was in the perfect position to illuminate my subject as well as the golden fall leaves behind him. I didn't have to use any type of flash or artificial lighting.Equipment
I only used my D5100 and my Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6 zoom lens.Inspiration
I never intended to take this photo, actually. I was at home, looking for something to do, and I thought to myself "I'll take my cat outside and try and get a cute photo of him". All I wanted was to take a typical cute kitty pic and be done with it. While outside, I noticed one of our trees had gorgeous large fall leaves on it. I also realized I had never seen my cat climb a tree before. I was curious, so I put him in to see what he did. I snapped quite a few photos in the meantime. It was casual, and even a little spontaneous. I didn't realize how well this photo had turned out until I looked at the images weeks later.Editing
Yes! This photo made me realize that no matter how well you take your original photo, you'll probably always need to edit it a bit. For this image, I didn't have to do much. I used the website iPiccy (because it was before I had Photoshop). I lightened up the image a bit (exposure and contrast), adjusted the temperature of the colors to a warmer feeling for fall, used the HDR effect on really low (keep it subtle) to boost clarity of the image, and then I softened up the background a bit because the HDR tool in iPiccy made it a tiny bit grainy. The last few steps are ones I did not do until months after the initial edit. There was a twig on the tree trunk I edited out using the clone tool because it was taking focus away from the cat itself. I also edited out a fly by Tyson's (the cat's) ear. One last thing that I did was I cleaned up the leaf next to his head. The tree he is sitting in is always the first to change leaves, so naturally at this point in fall (middle of October) the leaves were starting to rot. I just removed as many brown splotches as I could. A lot of people have asked me why I don't remove the entire leaf. The reason is I think it gives the image more of a fall feeling to it, and of course the area would seem very empty if I did decide to remove it.In my camera bag
Two camera bodies (Nikon D5100 and Nikon D7000), 55-200mm Nikon lens, 85mm micro telephoto lens, 18-55mm Nikon kit lens, and an 18-105mm Nikon kit lens. In short, it's all of my digital camera gear.Feedback
Don't set out to take a great photo. I know that sounds strange, but that's my advice to you. Some of the best photos you could ever take are unintentional. Let the photo opportunity come to you. For me, I got lucky. As soon as I placed my cat in the tree here, he got settled into a position that made him look like he was going to jump out of the tree (leaning forward, like in this photo). Just then, a flock of birds flew past overhead to distract him while I took this photo. All of the factors that make this photo great are ones that I couldn't have helped. The things around us aligned perfectly all by themselves, all I did was snap the shot.