Ship's Cat

[Chris Dodkin]

I was shooting the 'boat houses' in Encinitas CA at lunchtime today, when this rather friendly moggy came out to see what I was up to.

Fuji X-Pro1 and 18mm Lens - f/2.8 - PP in Silver FX

 

[Chris Dodkin]

2nd shot with eye contact

 

[Brian Moore]

Coupla very nice cat shots there, Chris. I think the tone of that film you've used works well with that cat's black coat.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wow, those eyes are amazing.

 

[Dave Green]

Nice kitty!

 

[Pete Askew]

That first shot is wonderful Chris - the direction of its gaze and tones and the background and angle. Love it.

 

[Lesley Jones]

I really love the first one. I am a bit puzzled by the sort of outline effect round the bottom of the cat in the second one though...

 

[Chris Dodkin]

that outline puzzled me as well Lesley - so I revisited the Photoshop file and looked at the original color layer - prior to Nik Silver FX processing

It's there on my color layer as well - a halo effect between areas of high contrast that are very out of focus.

Will have to check the original files from the camera to see if this is a 'feature', or maybe a JPEG artifact (Still no X-Pro raw support direct into Photoshop).

 

[Lesley Jones]

I don't know much about these things, but it doesn't look like artefacts to me. It just caught my eye - I do hope you didn't mind me mentioning it. I keep coming back for another look by the way. That first one is just perfect

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I don't mind at all Lesley - Pulled the original camera file and it's not visible - my PP appears to be to blame here, using fill illumination to get detail into the black fur has produced the halo effect.

Better PP required!

 

[Lesley Jones]

I'm glad you found the problem. It's probably a good thing it wasn't the camera. Whew!