Thursday, September 18, 2008

Gandalf the Neighorbood Cat

I've wanted to take a picture of this cat for a long time. He likes to hang out on my neighbor's porch. Awhile ago I had the perfect opportunity to take some picture of him, but my lame Vivitar 285HV wouldn't fire, so I left empty-handed. This time everything worked and the cat stayed calm enough for me to snap off a few photos. I really like the warm light cast by the CTO gel. Photo info: 52.5mm focal length, 1/50 sec, f/2, ISO 200, 1/8 flash power?, unknown flash zoom, CTO gel, flash at camera left, perpendicular to the camera axis, same height as cat, and eight feet away, 7:31 pm Photo info: 52.5mm focal length, 1/50 sec, f/2, ISO 200, 1/8 flash power?, unknown flash zoom, CTO gel, flash location is identical to above, except the camera has moved a little to the left, 7:31 pm Photo info: 52.5mm focal length, 1/50 sec, f/2, ISO 200, 1/8 flash power?, unknown flash zoom, CTO gel, flash location is identical to above, except the camera has moved a lot more to the left, so the flash is just a hair to the left of the camera, 7:32 pm The photos are a bit dark for my taste, but in the interest of photojournalistic truth I didn't want to increase the brightness in Lightroom. Actually the cat's name isn't really Gandalf, but he's the only gray cat in the neighborhood, so that's what I dubbed him.

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