This was achieved by painting a lion sillhouette onto a canvas, hanging it on a wall, and strategically offering food bribes to my cat to get her where I wanted her. Used 3 Alien Bee strobes to get the even lighting and to avoid Mama Kitty actually casting any real shadows.
Post processing: Desaturate, adjust levels, dodge highlights & burn shadows, gaussian blur on the lion sillhouette and unsharp mask on the cat.
Here's an outtake from this challenge: . I actually liked this one better, but couldn't submit it because my camera date was off.
After Challenge: Woooooohoooo! My first Blue! Thanks so much for the votes & comments - I'm off to go pour cans of tuna in Mama Kitty's dish...
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Place: 1 out of 128 Avg (all users): 7.0625 Avg (commenters): 8.2105 Avg (participants): 6.4902 Avg (non-participants): 7.3303 Views since voting: 10492 Views during voting: 351 Votes: 160 Comments: 52 Favorites: 18 (view)
Obviously, you connected with the viewers on this one and did very well. As a matter of fact, when I logged into dpc this morning, my kids (5 and 2) walked by and it caught their attention of all the pictures on the home page, and they had to look at it for a bit. :)
The intent stare of the cat, I think, really makes this shot. he looks totally focused on the task at hand. That contrasts nicely with the shadow.
The focus, lighting and details present all add the overall effectiveness of this shot.
I missed this image when I was voting for this challenge. Too bad - I was hoping to find a "10" image - and this one should have been it! Very nice work.
Ohhhhhmy goodness! You qualify for genius photographer with this one! I missed this one in the voting, but you would have had twelve 10's if I hadn't. . .looks like you didn't need my 10 tho :)
Wow, congrats. Great photo, and now a ribbon of each color. The same is true for the second place Shadow photographer, too! I agree your alternate entry has a slight edge technically (sharper cat?), but this is deserving nonetheless.
Awesome set up. I know it would ribbon the second I saw it. Looks like something the ribbon hogs would do. Now that you know what it takes, just keep bringing it back to the table and you will be winning ribbon after ribbon. Congrats on your first blue.
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