Subject Woes

I don't think a lot of people realize how hard it is to work with cats for subject matter. They are finicky, fast and restless.

For example: When trying to get a lighting shot like this,

I had to put up with him shaking his head, moving, twitcing, cleaning, sneezing on my camera and in general looking at me like:

Duuuuude!

Moving on. I wanted to capture him with the white screen behind him to bring out his colors like this:

yet he decided he was going to catch dust particles first.

Long cat is long

Then of course we have the King of the Hill moment I thought was cute:

He, on the other hand, thought his space was being invaded:

Attack!

I was glad, however, that after everything was said and done, he provided me with some after shoot entertainment.

I keel you!

Test Shots

So I was messing with some of the features on my camera since I have never had them before. The following are test shots. These shots either tested a low light situation, perspective, angle or any number of things. Not all the shots worked and I will explain what I liked and didn't about each one. Please keep in mind, these are not glamor shots so don't expect any wow factor.

Ok, this one was a test of an average light situation without the flash. I wanted to see what it would do to his eyes in this case. I like how they came out as natural green instead of Green Lantern green. I also like how the camera picked up on the texture of the blanked.

This was a test of low light with the flash. The light was from behind me and to the side while there was no back lighting. Like the first image, His eyes are slightly more green with the flash then without it but because there was some natural light it doesn't look Green Lantern. The camera did pick up on the texture of the carpet, which was cool. I like the angel on this one as it kept his eyes from grabbing the light of the flash.

I was testing angels here. I used the flash with an average lighting situation and it put to much light on the pole of the perch. I like that I can see the family photos in the background but would have liked it much better if I had been facing them more directly and had changed the depth of field to blur them out a bit.

This was fun to try and catch! I first turned off the flash in the low light situation and when he moved his paws all I had was a blur. I turned the flash back on and ended up drowning him out. At the same time, I managed to catch his paws like they were holding still and at the same time get him licking his lips. Not the best shot but amusing to look at all the same.

Lego Land

My first trip with my camera was Lego Land. I had never been there before and was super excited to get pictures of all the Star Wars Legos. Of course, I love plants and had to stop along the way and snap shots ot the flowers. I can't post all 510 pictures so here is a smattering of my top picks from the trip. Oddly enough, most are plant life. Mmmmm....

f/4      ISO-100      1/1250 sec

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

f/4      1/250 sec      ISO-400

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

 

 f/5       1/250 sec       ISO-500

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

 

 f/5       1/250 sec      ISO-600

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

 

 f/4      1/320 sec      ISO-100

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

Quote the Duck:

"OMG, look! It is Medieval Batman!"

f/4.5      1/1250 sec      ISO-100

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

 

f/2.8       1/1600 sec     ISO-100

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

 

 f/4        1/1250 sec     ISO-100

Taken with Sony Cyber-shot Hx100v

 

 

and at the end of the day, Miss Sassy Pants got her picture with Mr. Grumpy Pants.

 

 f/2.8     1.1250 sec     ISO-100

Bittersweet

Tonight was a bittersweet moment. I have officially closed my DeviantArt account. I have been with them for years but I feel the love affair was one sided and it was time to break it off. I saved the files I know I no longer had on this computer and deleted the rest. It was a bit painful to do while exciting as well. I found pictures I had drawn that I had forgotten about as well as spotted pictures I had taken years ago. I think I have fallen back in love with my "art" and my amateurish photos. Here are a few gems I dug up. I hate splashing watermarks across my work, but it is far to easy these days to steal and crop our a signature.

I was having a bad time when I made this. It seemed that everyone of my friends needed advice, a shoulder or a sounding board. That whole month was hell. The next month, when I was the one that needed help, very few returned the favor. I created this and sent it to anyone that bugged me for the next 6 weeks (unless they were one of the few that helped me when I needed it)

I made this for a friend of mine! You have no idea how long this took me to get right. It was created using colored pencil and a black fine point sharpie.

Ah, London! I was on a bus and we pulled up to a stop sign when I snapped this. This is one of the few good shots my old camera managed to catch correctly. I know the file is huge but if I shrink it then the compression kills a lot of the detail. Sorry.

Please remember, all art from this blog is copyright, has a watermark and should not be used, taken or manipulated in any way without the express permission from the artist. Thank you

The Twins

The first thing I did when I got the new camera was take pictures of the cats. They are very photogenic so I had little trouble holding them still. Then again, they were half asleep at the time so there was really no trouble to start with. The first two are of Jeremiah (Jerry) and the last two are of Jethro

f/5           ISo-160            1/250 sec

Taken with Sony Cyber-Shot Hx100v

Unfortanatly, the file was overwritten a few times and I lost the shutter data and such

Taken with Sony Cyber-Shot Hx100v

 

F/3.5      ISO-800     1/8 sec

Taken with Sony Cyber-Shot Hx100v

 

 F/3.5      1/10 Sec     ISO-800

Taken with Sony Cyber-Shot Hx100v

The Start of Something new

When you saw "Little Red Bird" just who were you expecting?

Welcome to my little slice of the world. I never really had a good camera so I began to hate taking pictures. That is a very sad thing considering how much I loved taking pictures when I had someone elses' camera. Thanks to a bit of luck and a lot of saving, I now have a good camera that will take clear shots. I don't have any photo editing software so any shot I take is what I get.

Please keep in mind:

Any images appearing on this website are subject to copyright laws and ownership is retained by the photographer. Watermarks will be used after this post.