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Courage to be Free... (portrait of a stray)
Courage to be Free... (portrait of a stray)
littlegett


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Free Study 2007-07 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Date: Jul 14, 2007
Aperture: 4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 60
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Jul 30, 2007

raw adjustments to include brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, convert to jpg, crop, dup layer high pass to sharpen layer overlay x2, mask one overlay to decrease sharpness on ears and head, resize, save for web submit.

Statistics
Place: 461 out of 651
Avg (all users): 5.3561
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 5.1852
Avg (non-participants): 6.1250
Views since voting: 947
Views during voting: 174
Votes: 132
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)


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09/21/2008 10:37:12 PM
very adorably cat! i love the DOF and that look on the cat's face! very good photo!
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12/13/2007 11:24:46 AM
What a great shot and a good story behind it. I hope the little thing is still doing ok. :)
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08/08/2007 09:16:20 AM
Beautiful capture and eye contact.
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08/08/2007 12:33:34 AM
Originally posted by shalrath:

Amazing depth of field, feels like a painting. I keep getting dragged to the spot of black in the whiskers, you can clone this out in Advanced Editing.


Since it is a stray, I felt it more natural to leave the mark in the whisker. Kind of like photographing a street person, one isn't going to 'clean them up' in post. They want to portrait them as is.

Also same reason I kept most of the body in the image, wanted to show how skinny it is from being stray.

I photographed this from inside the house through a dirty window L()L. She was trying to catch birds and climb the tree. She started moving towards the house than heard the click of the shutter and looked right at me for a couple nice shots.

I did try to feed her, but she never came for the food. I see her ever couple of weeks or so, so maybe my house is just on a wandering rotation.
08/08/2007 12:25:20 AM
Lovely cat shot. Should have scored much higher, just on kitty appeal alone!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2007 05:39:48 AM
Amazing depth of field, feels like a painting. I keep getting dragged to the spot of black in the whiskers, you can clone this out in Advanced Editing.
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08/04/2007 06:33:16 PM
Looks like you caught kitty doing soemthing kitty shouldn't have been doing.
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08/04/2007 02:10:10 PM
Great cat shot most are boring but this is unique. Well done psart 8
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08/01/2007 11:55:01 PM
I really like this, it almost looks like a painting. Nice job! 8
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08/01/2007 09:43:08 PM
Nice photo fo the cat. But I would have cropped most of the body out of the image. Especially where the bright white patch above his left hind section is in the background. 6.
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