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Challenge: Decorate Baby Emilie's Nursery (Expert Editing)
Camera: Nikon D7100
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Autofocus Lens
Location: Chateau Snaffles
Date: Oct 5, 2014
Aperture: various
ISO: various
Shutter: various
Date Uploaded: Oct 5, 2014

 From correspondence a couple years ago with Christophe, I know that his surname, Kiciak, is Polish for 'kitty'. And he owns cats and clearly likes them a lot as they often appear in his work.

So, I wanted to make a cute image of a cat photographer. What better cat to use than my slightly cross-eyed blue lynx Birman, Galena, as a model, though her fur sister, the bluepoint Lily, makes a cameo in the b/w portrait. Galena is the much more sociable of the two cats while my little TigerLily is much more of a cat's cat.

Getting Miss G to pose with the ol' Pentax was the hardest part. Pretty much everything else was easy. The portrait sitters are barn kittens at a local farm, Lily, and the dog is a lovely and sweet-mannered chocolate Lab who belongs to one of my longest-term clients. Once I finished work for the day I took the dog into the backyard and got a shot within a few frames :-)

pp: Yea gads...do I have to? Really? Nothing fancy. Pretty much all the individual elements are basic in terms of processing, with some warp on the protraits as though the wind were blowing, and mashing another paw onto Galena. Honest!

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Canon EOS-6D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/13/2014 01:42:19 AM
Very well done, Susan!
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 10/12/2014 10:18:58 PM
Not sure that this is quite baby's nursery stuff, but I do love it!
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Canon EOS 80D
Canon EF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 II
 10/12/2014 04:21:33 PM
Purrfectly adorable. Great idea. Nicely executed.
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Canon EOS-1D X
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 10/12/2014 02:53:58 PM
This challenge would have not been complete without our dogs and cats friends! Emilie is already surrounded by them, and I am sure she is going to love that hilarious photographed one :) Thanks a lot for your very funny entry!
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Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM
 10/12/2014 10:24:28 AM
Cute
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Sony DSLR-A550
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 10/10/2014 07:34:21 PM
I like this the Best Cats Rock!!!
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Sony Alpha a6400
Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VXD
 10/09/2014 01:24:23 PM
This is super cute - silly, but awesome.
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 10/06/2014 11:23:44 AM
Very cute!
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 10/06/2014 01:10:58 AM
I don't know why, but this looks like it's straight out of wacky Katie's brain :) That furtographer is awesome
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