Just my cat.
No remote shutter release, no self-timer, no mirror lock-up, just held my camera down on a drinking glass on the table and pressed the shutter release manually.
USM, level & crop.
One shot wonder and proud as hell to have submitted this.
Anyone can go out and do the expected. Try the unexpected.
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Ha! My 2 second exposures of my cat look nothing like this. Not even my 1 second exposure. The slight softness from motion in the face is just enough to convince me that you didn't use a stuffed cat. :)
I did the same kind of shot as you did here and finished 2 places below you.. mine was a portrait of my fiance but still, its not an easy shot to do AT ALL. this deserved a lot more and I feel mine did also but what can we do?.. LOL, as long as you like it I for one know how tough this shot is to pull off..
2 seconds for a cat shot is AMAZING! You are sooooooo right about this being a one off...I don't think I have ever come close with all the cat pictures I have taken...a really nice image Brad, in every sort of way.
The cat is stuffed, right? :-) Just goes to prove the current hoo-hah about the challenge, yours doesn't suggest it met the rules (or that it would be unlikely) and gets panned, the winner looks like a long exposure of 2 seconds but isn't.
This is an amazing shot and you are right in that it's one time and one time only deal. To get a cat to sit still for 2 seconds while they are awake and you have a camera pointed at them, amazing. This should have scored much higher.
I wish my cat would hold still while I took her picture. Whenever I point the camera in her direction, she quietly moves away. This is a nice cat picture, but it doesn't look like a 2-second exposure (even if it actually is one).
Great composition, his(her?) face contrasts well with the rest of the light areas. (How'd you get that cat to sit still for two whole seconds? Mine never would..)
this is a great shot, but I a not sure it is demonstrating the sprit of the 2 second challenge...while it may have been a 2 second exposure, it might as well have been a 1/200 exposure if you know what I mean
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