Lucky cat shot

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At last! Pure luck; when I pressed the shutter her mouth was closed. The flash could have done a bit more though.



Any more good cat shots out there?

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srider said:

I instinctively panned with him as he started running, comes from shooting cars most of the time

Aha, I can see it now - nice shot and very nice cat - Bengals are cool. Trouble is when I was looking for Rumpuss the cat rescue place didn't have any posh breeds - just boot-faced cats with ears like old bus tickets!

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chim_girl said:

ok, can someone explain 'panning' to me please? I know that you're talking about moving the camera not giving the cat a good pasting!

You got the answer already! Panning just means moving the camera to keep up with a moving subject, so the subject stays roughly sharp and the background blurs. The amount of blur you get is controlled by the shutter speed - eg with cars you can freeze the motion dead (which can look unnatural) or use a slower shutter speed - maybe 1/125 - to get the wheels blurred. Easy!

(You're not related to Cosmos by any chance?)

Edited 'cos I typed blue instead of blur :sigh:
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I'd like to put this forward as a contestant for 'pissed-off cat 2004':


Extra point if you recognise the human...

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Chim_Girl said:

Tried taking some photos of my cat(s) on my current digital camera, still getting scary eyes.

Reckon that's the flash bouncing straight in and out of the poor moggy's eyeballs (they have a reflective layer behind the retine). Possible answers are: using available light instead of flash, shooting the mog from an angle, or using a seperate flash...

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That pic of Big Fred is superb! Was he really grinning or did you knock him out and hang him on??

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[quote=puggitNames needed for this little girl please![/quote]

Tiger Rag

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Pissed off? Look what I have to live with!

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Excellent shot, 'Bistomeister'. It sums up cats perfectly I think!

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srider said:

ok, crap photo, but somehow my nutter cat managed to do this today...

Several time I caught my old cat balancing precariously on the top of an open upstairs window...

The other trick was to leap from the banisters to the top of the airing cupboard door. Unfortunately the impact of the cat landing on top of the door caused the door to swing closed, knocking the cat off against the wall above... cat clearly never studied Newtonian physics....

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gravymaster said:

My mums cat is crazy. It tried to jump on the piano stool when it was under the keyboard and twatted its head. I thought it was hilarious.

Bet that struck a chord...