very lovely shot! not as sharp as i could have been, but as you said it was one of the first shots with your new camera

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the shot!

*Nods* You may have noticed that the shallow depth of field also blurred a bit of the photo as it moves back from 'his' muzzle. A fault of the wide-open lens and high shutter speed.

Unfortunately, since I was hand-holding the camera for that picture, and using such an extreme telephoto (850mm equivilent), I had to trade off motion blur from my shaky hold, for focus blur due to shallow depth of field. The cat being in a shaded enclosure didn't help matters much.

Some of the softness also comes from the down-sampling to keep down the OMG reaction for folks trying to see the full size image - this is an uncropped shot off a 13Megapixel camera, so the original file size in high-quality (uncompressed) JPEG was HUGE!! Wuff doubts many folks would have wanted to wait for that many megs to flow through the net, no matter how much they liked felines. *chuckles* So this is somewhere around 60-70% size of the original.

Still, given all the hurdles and wuff's "beginner" status, Vargr was VERY happy to get this result. *grins*

*smiles* Is that the "if I look at you now, will you go away" face :3
(Nah, looks too relaxed for that!)

Certainly helps to be able to start at 13Mp (*blinks*) to crop-down!

Patience, my friend, is definitely a virtue around the kitties, unless you're actually known to them: most people give up before the cat bothers to strike that pose they want. (And most of those look for 30 seconds at most :(

Looking forward to seeing /much/ more of your work, thank you :)

You're absolutely right about the 'patience' part, and about them only holding the pose for 30 seconds. *grins* In fact, 30 seconds is probably a LONG time for most. This lovely kitty only looked back over their shoulder long enough for wuff to snap 3 shots, and only this one was sharp enough for me to want to post.

*grins* You're also right about the opertunities that camera provides for 'cropping down' and image. Unfortunately, a 13 Megapixel shot comes out to a whole BUNCH of megabytes in most formats, so it's a bit hard on the storage media. Still, wuffy wouldn't trade this setup away.

Wow! This picture looks like it came out great if you ahda max. of 30 sec. to take 3 of em! :D

Thank heavens for a big "camera buffer". It let's wuff trigger several frames before they have to get written to the storage chip. Still, patience and luck play a big part in getting a shot like this when you can't "stage" the animal to do what you want.

Thanks for the nice comment!

nice animals aren't they? lynxes should be more popular.

Wuffy totatly agrees! Love those 'decorative touches', with the tufts at the tips of the ears. But, all in all, they certainly have lovely faces.

yes =) and the tail makes them look wild XD

Wow, it's a bit like my cat (lilly)....Anyeay excellent photo... Thanks for shared it :p.

*wuffy checks out your kitty's photos* Yes, there is a resemblance isn't there. Such a pretty face! And Lilly is quite the cute kitty too, though she didn't look too pleased about getting woken up to have that first picture taken. *smiles*

Thanks.... I don't woken up she for made the photo... I make it after that she wake up alone...... ;)

lynxes r cool