Category: Gingersnaps

caturday, 13 february 2021

whbeebe

So what do you show on a Caturday? Cats, of course. And I have five (five!) to chose from.

First up is Luke in the classic turkey position while his attention is being held by I-don’t-know-what. Yes, I looked. But I didn’t see anything. Maybe he was trying to fake me out. He does that on occassion.
Next up is little Danï looking for all the world like I caught her in the act of doing … something. Who knows what was going on in her little mind at the time.
Finally we have little Zoë giving me the stink eye while trying to rest in her bed. I’ll get that until she wants to come over and snuggle. Then all is forgiven.

All taken with the Olympus E-M1.2. Top photo used the Panasonic Leica 1.4/25mm, the rest using the Olympus 40-150mm PRO.

some household creatures in black and white

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I’m back into that black-and-white kind of photography mode. I’m practicing again, trying to hit the mid-tones and smooth transitions, avoiding the crazy contrast I’m prone to with digital photography. I tried to preserve the way the light plays across Ruby’s coat. I’ve got all this photography gear and cameras on my iPhone, and I seldom use any of them any more. I need to start using them. And ignoring the “influencers” who would have me trash all my gear just to acquire the latest Canon/Nikon/Fuji/Whatever…

And of course all the little ones are more than willing to have me take their photos.

I like my black-and-white photos as light as reasonably possible, with a few dark-to-black areas in the composition to add interest to the photography. That was what I was after with Luke’s photo above. His handsome head is separated from the background due to it’s being lighter than the back of the chair he was sitting in, and then right in the middle of his face his irises are small yet distinctively jet black.

Both photos were taken with a vintage Panasonic Lumix GH4 and a Lumix 30mm macro.