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Challenge: The Eyes Have It! (Basic Editing)
Collection: Cats
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon
Location: Fairfax, VA
Date: Feb 4, 2008
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Feb 4, 2008
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Out of my box again, so we'll see how this fares :-)
I wanted to get just the basics of a cat face, with the eyes drawing immediate attention. I picked this cat because he was conveniently a buff tabby against an off-white wall. In this shot I liked his pose looking off into the distance, the exposure was light enough to be a good starting point, and there are great catchlights in his eyes. I was hoping that would give me just enough leeway to keep decent eye color while lightening up everything else for a high key effect.
A little noisy and soft but I don't see another way around that in Basic other than what I already tried. Soft actually suits the personality of this particular cat.
PP - converted from RAW (+1 exposure), NeatImage, cropped, levels to get the high key look, decreased saturation slightly to get back to tone down the yellow, added border, resized, USM twice, decreased gamma and increased contrast, shifted greenish hue to yellow, sharpened with noise reduction. |
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02/16/2008 09:05:50 AM |
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02/11/2008 01:24:43 AM |
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02/10/2008 11:56:42 AM |
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02/09/2008 08:02:41 PM |
| Great capture of eye color. Could be improved by using more contrast between the cat & the background; you can't tell where the cat ends |
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02/09/2008 04:21:51 PM |
| bleaching out background makes you focus on eyes. eyes look a bit blurry possible camera shake? |
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02/06/2008 07:37:31 PM |
| Way too overexposed for my taste. |
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02/06/2008 12:53:17 PM |
| The idea of making it very bright was a good one as it does focus attention on the eyes, but you needed the eyes to be sharp and it appears the cat was moving. |
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02/06/2008 10:57:19 AM |
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02/06/2008 09:46:19 AM |
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02/06/2008 06:46:41 AM |
| way too overexposed and blurred, besides not being an eye photograph |
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02/06/2008 12:48:04 AM |
| Too bright for me. Feels over exposed. |
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