If you were to try to portray the same idea, (cat on the prowl and in the out of focus background), it might have been better to have used another sort of foreground element. Maybe something like a mouse, or a cat toy, or something else that says "attack mode". The couch doesn't quite say the same thing. It just looks like either a cat behind a couch, or worse yet, that you were sloppy and didn't get the focus right.
Just my 2/100's.
Wow! Fantastic shot! You sure caught the definitive moment. Focus is spot-on, and everything works. Pat yourself on the back for this one.Went out Whale watching with my family on my dad's boat over the weekend. This out of Bodega Bay California. We were hoping to, maybe see some Grey Whales. We were not disappointed to have not seen any Grey's. This was taken going about 15 knots in ~6 foot swell.
80-200 f2.8 @ 80mm
1/8000 f/4 200 ISO
Cropped ~50%
I wish I had a Polarizer for this lens, or had time to change to my 24-85mm with a polarizer on it. Due to the boat movement and the unpredictable nature of where the whales were coming out of the water when they porpoised NON of the shots at greater than 80mm turned out, and most had no whale in the frame.
One of my first B&W conversions I thought the particular tone of the hazy blue sky and the deep blue the ocean had this day worked well for this. C&C appreciated.
-S
I would've loved this shot if the background wasn't so terrible
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Canon Rebel XT
ISO 400
1/400
f/5.6
Sydney on Friday night.
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*Secret* The photo was actually a recreation of the scene because he didn't get it right the first shot. So the famous photo was set up to look like the first shot he got. We watched some movie about it in History, but what a great story!![]()