Friday cat blogging

This is when it comes in handy to have a digital SLR.  Anyone who owns pets with black fur knows how hard it is to get good pictures of them.  I think it's because the automatic setting has trouble accurately reading how much light there is on their black fur.  I had to use the manual setting on my camera to get these to turn out just right so that Sugar doesn't just look like a black blob.  (This is why you've probably never seen GIL's cat pictured here before; I can never get a decent photo of her!)  The photo on the left was taken at 1/200 shutter speed at a 5.6 aperture (with film speed 1600 which makes it grainier but that's what I use when I shoot in low-level indoor light --I had been shooting in low light previously and forgot to change it).  I changed it for the photo on the right.  That one's a 400 film speed and slower shutter speed of 1/100 and the same 5.6 aperture.  It's subtle but I think I like the one on the right better.  More nuances in the shades of black.  As always you can click on the photos to enlarge them.  You like?

Comments

[Joefish]

It's probably my monitor, but I can barely see either of them. They've very dark on my screen.

[barb]

Yeah, they look good from here, but I'm on a laptop and my friend says the type of screen that laptops have tend to show images differently. GIL's desktop shows them probably the same way you're seeing them so that makes sense to me. Guess all you can do is adjust the brightness, eh?

[Laura Lee Donoho]

Very nice.