Re: Here's Itchy!
[Re: pilotgrl]
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12/15/08 11:19 PM
12/15/08 11:19 PM
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Jim Poor
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Hiya Beth, and welcome aboard! You'll find that things move slower here than BPN, but the advice, learning and general atmosphere are wonderful.
Nice relaxed pose, especially for a cat named Itchy! I might be tempted to go vertical or square to bring the focus to the front feet and face.
Portraiture, unlike nature photography (IMO), is a lot more open to creative interpretation and manipulation. I don't have a problem replacing backgrounds, removing shadows, swapping ears, or even heads at all.
I do it quite often to improve composition when going from a mastiff to a chihuahua without changing all my props around between shoots. At every event, I take a few "blank" shots of my set from the angles I'm likely to be shooting just in case I need to do some pixel magic.
All that said, my life is a thousand times easier after a big event if I don't have to do all that.
As far as start-up equipment goes, for cats and other smallish critters, if you have some clean sheets, you have some backdrops.
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Re: Here's Itchy!
[Re: pilotgrl]
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12/16/08 12:07 PM
12/16/08 12:07 PM
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psmith
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If you want to play around with off camera lighting on the cheap, you can buy a couple of these at your local hardware store: http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stor...uctId=100354514 Put a 150w bulb in each, set your white balance to tungsten, clamp them on the back of a chair or on a hat rack. Tape a piece of diffusion paper over them and it gets even better.
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Re: Here's Itchy!
[Re: pilotgrl]
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12/16/08 08:10 PM
12/16/08 08:10 PM
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Peggy Sue
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Beth - do you have a problem if I play around with this image?
Great name!
Peggy Sue
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