Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/21

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Subject: [Leica] How to photograph your cat.
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sun Aug 21 03:50:07 2005
References: <7629EB4795F39146A4D2ECC655CD68EA05704072@asc02.asc.upenn.edu>

But how do you get a cat to sit still long enough?
Contact adhesive under his paws? An overdose of catnip?
As soon as our cat,Posy, sees a camera she runs towards it, obviously 
thinking - if dad's got something in his hands it may be edible.

The lighting set-up bears a very strong resemblance to my macro 
"studio", just on a larger scale.
Douglas


Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>In reference to my photo that made many of you give up photography forever
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>http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3644398
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>Adam Bridge asked:
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>>My wife wondered if you had simply (hahahaha) photographed against a white 
>>background or if you had, perhaps, done that and then used Photoshop to 
>>remove everything that isn't cat.
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>The procedure for photographing anything like that and getting ye olde white
>seamless look is very simple:
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>http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/kittenphoto.jpg
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>To the untrained eye, it looks much more impressive than it actually is.
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>Hope this helps.
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>kc
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Replies: Reply from langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer) ([Leica] How to photograph your cat.)
Reply from mail at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] How to photograph your cat.)
In reply to: Message from KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] How to photograph your cat. Or your dog. Or you ming vase)