Formal portrait

[priller]

Of my cat!

Didn't really set out to take such a picture, but I thought she was striking a nice, portrait-looking pose here.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Great shot

Did you use a flash? I love the black background. It really makes her stand out.

[priller]

3. No flash, just window light

But it was nice, soft, semi-overcast light coming in from outside. Almost like a light box. I like the "single light source portrait" look anyway. Sort of like this guy's work:





Well, sort of. This photographer is William Coupon, very famous for portraits, does covers of Time and Newsweek and things like that.

[FM Arouet666]

2. Great Shot... She would be proud.....

Back ground is perfect, the lighting is just right. I love the way half the cat's face is highlighted, the other a tad bit darker. Now you did it, I want a cat again. My wife will shoot me for sure.. ;)

[GOPFighter]

4. Great picture!

If I ever win the lotto big time I'm going to quit my job and just take pictures of cats the rest of my life.

[bvar22]

5. My Kittys are...

...my most photographed subjects.



Beautiful Cat!
I love Tabbys.

[F.Gordon]

6. That's very nice

Sharp, great lighting, wonderful color.... what's not to like?
:thumbsup:

I could never get "the dog" to hold any kind of pose like that and she usually gets annoyed when I follow her around so I stopped buggin' her. And Ms F' has threatened to remove a certain part of my body with a dull plastic butter knife if I point the camera at her again.

You study the work of famous photographers? I should spend an evening browsin' and lookin'.... but I always have so many questions like "how the heck did they do that?" at the top of the list.

[priller]

7. Thanks!

Yeah, cats are much calmer and more still than dogs. My girlfriend has a little Jack Russell terrier, and it's practically impossible to get a good shot of her, she's in constant, nervous, jittery motion (the dog, that is).

I do study what other photographers do. William Coupon, whose pictures I pointed out, has an excellent web site with quite a bit of info on his philosophy of portraits ("it's all about the eyes") and a nice little bio. www.williamcoupon.com

And I'm on Flickr.com, and spend lots of time there just looking at other people's shots. There are some fantastic photographers there. Very inspirational, I get a lot of ideas from there.