Thanks for the Apollo 11 pix, Eo. WAY COOL!! :-) Imagine having been Collins...who had to stay on board, the whole time. No moon walk for him! :-( But he *did* get to be on that mission and...took an AWESOME picture, too! They wouldn't have had that picture, had he not been on board. :-)
Ivor, notice the shadows from the cat's legs. I suspect a big studio flash light overhead. And then a couple seconds for the buildings. Maybe the sky too, but that could have been added.
Eolake, my guess is that the photographer took 3 exposures; one for the sky, one for the buildings and one for the cobbles. These would have then been flown into Photoshop and adjusted in separate layers with unnecessary parts deleted. The cat was shot separately but with the intention of including it into the picture. The cat shadows were then painted in to follow the line from the moon (that's the clever bit). That's how I would have done it anyway.
Yes, I can picture it: the foreground is in the dark, so a flash exposes it after the background had been taken for two seconds (or just before that), giving the complete image. Even undoctored photos can show something very different from what things really looked like. Typical example: a very fast photo of a very fast car makes it seem as if the car's NOT going insanely fast. Or a long exposition can give the impression that your grandma in the Benny Hill Show runs as fast as the Flash. Etc...
I could take an awesome picture of my cat advancing straight at me looking me in the eyes any time I want. I don't, because I already have a couple of those. :-) You wouldn't think, by the typically serious aspect of cats, that he's in fact joining his bestest friend in the whole world. With his tabby stripes, looks like he's approaching a prey with merciless determination.
That "dare bikini" looks about as comfy as a wedgie!!! :-)
(More Apollo 11 pictures.) (40 years anniversary, July 16!)
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I really liked the "noir kitteh", but all a nice selection.
Surely the cat has been added to the photograph. I don't see how you can expose for a moonlit sky and a black, fast moving cat at night!
Thanks for the Apollo 11 pix, Eo. WAY COOL!! :-) Imagine having been Collins...who had to stay on board, the whole time. No moon walk for him! :-( But he *did* get to be on that mission and...took an AWESOME picture, too! They wouldn't have had that picture, had he not been on board. :-)
Ivor, notice the shadows from the cat's legs. I suspect a big studio flash light overhead. And then a couple seconds for the buildings. Maybe the sky too, but that could have been added.
Eolake, my guess is that the photographer took 3 exposures; one for the sky, one for the buildings and one for the cobbles. These would have then been flown into Photoshop and adjusted in separate layers with unnecessary parts deleted. The cat was shot separately but with the intention of including it into the picture. The cat shadows were then painted in to follow the line from the moon (that's the clever bit).
That's how I would have done it anyway.
By whom is the noir cat photo?
Dunno, an orphan picture.
It all depends on how shy the cat is, doesn't it?
Yes, I can picture it: the foreground is in the dark, so a flash exposes it after the background had been taken for two seconds (or just before that), giving the complete image. Even undoctored photos can show something very different from what things really looked like.
Typical example: a very fast photo of a very fast car makes it seem as if the car's NOT going insanely fast. Or a long exposition can give the impression that your grandma in the Benny Hill Show runs as fast as the Flash. Etc...
I could take an awesome picture of my cat advancing straight at me looking me in the eyes any time I want. I don't, because I already have a couple of those. :-)
You wouldn't think, by the typically serious aspect of cats, that he's in fact joining his bestest friend in the whole world. With his tabby stripes, looks like he's approaching a prey with merciless determination.
That "dare bikini" looks about as comfy as a wedgie!!! :-)
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