I always have unusable photos of the boys. Some, though, can be transformed through a little Photoshop magic. Though some are beyond redemption, others manage to come out OK or interesting for one or another reason.
Here are a few trash shots I piddled with that came from a batch of photos that all were too dark and had a strong over-cast of yellow from the artificial light they were taken in:
Andy as a negative of a white cat….
A hint of tint…
Andy salutes the Scottish saltire. He’s named after St. Andrew, patron saint of Scotland.
Andy, your worst nightmare!!!
Worn out from all this posing….
Ooo, that is a scary Andy picture!
Yeah, and the irony is he is a very sweet cat that just has a mean look on his face.
I like them all. I didn’t know that was where Andy’s name came from. Is there a Saint Dougy?
Actually, since Dougy came along a few days after I got Andy, I hadn’t thought about a second name for a kitty. When Dougy did come along, I knew I wanted to keep with the Scottish theme and name him a strong Scottish name. I posed the question to followers on another site (dailybooth): What are some great Scottish names? Anguis. Murdoch. And others that just seemed a bit intense for a kitten. Then I had an ephiphany: What’s more Scottish than my own name, Douglas!? So, the kitten became wee Doogie, to avoid confusion over which one of us was beiung addressed. Actually, I did a blog post about it some time back. Actually, ity’s a bit of a family in joke, though you have to read toward the last couple of paragraphs to learn why…!
http://phainopepla95.com/2013/06/14/andy-and-dougy-at-four-months/
Ahh the magic of Photoshop. Love the effects.
Thanks! I probably should have included one of the original versions just to show how awful they started out. They were so dark and miserable, something had to be done to them, if only be deleted!
I am well aware of the nightmare of shooting black cats indoors. Sometimes photoshop is the only way to salvage a photo.
For sure! For sure!
But! They are art work!
In friendship
Michel
Thanks! They are what they are, but what they were was so bad I could have deleted them and felt comfortable doing it. I had nothing to lose by piddling with the m on Photoshop, and the end results were interesting enough (to me!) I decided to save them.
Poor Andy, all that posing has made him so tired.
🙂 I got pretty tired, too, because he didn’t cooperate and do what I was trying to get him to do. That’s how it is with pet photography, though. If you don’t have your camera ready at all times, you miss those little things you really want photos of. In this case, he was sprawled on the light stand, head resting on the lapboard in the foreground of the second photo. It looked terribly uncomfortable, but he was quite happy with the arrangement! He does have one paw stretched out over onto the lap board in that second photo. Imagine his head resting on top of that, but hanging slightly over the edge. That’s the photo I was trying to get. I couldn’t believe how ridiculously contorted and uncomfortable he looked, yet still managed to be sleeping!