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Published: 2009-11-29 19:13:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 3144; Favourites: 171; Downloads: 117
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Simba's face up close. Contrast boosted to emphasise his markings and the shape of his face.Related content
Comments: 47
Just used this beautiful photo as a reference for this drawing:
Thank you for allowing me to use it!
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Gorgeous! I take alotof close upsof my cats face.
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I give this two honorary titles.
"The Last thing a mouse sees." and "The first thing I see every morning."
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Amazig face - I use it in this little scratchboard: [link] Thank you for inspiration!
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Hah - I started to reply to your comment about an hour ago and then my boss wandered over wanting a meeting, so I finished replying just now when I got back to my desk before I saw this ... so ignore my reply to your comment
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haha, it's cool. ^^ Thanks, for replying anyway. ^^
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just awesome.... this cat is soooooooooooooooooo beautiful o.O
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Great photo! I also have an Abyssinian cat named Simba.
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love it! it looks like something out of warrior cats! ( lol )
a lovely pic!
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Thank you 
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your cat Simba is plotting World domination as we speak...he shall rule the world with a face like that!
I could not resist
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O______O
that was more disgusting than my original plan...BUT IT WORKS!!
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Sure thing - should I join and submit it?
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You can join if you'd like to...we'd be glad to have you aboard! I already sent the request, we're just waiting for you to approve it.
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So it is - I had a correspondence message hanging around from a submission to another group so wasn't paying any attention to those types of messages today, d'oh! Approved
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Well I'm glad you found it.
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Thanks
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I look forward to seeing it!
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This is a gorgeous photo, I love how bright and full the colors are.
You have boosted the color amazingly
Great Great Photo
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Thank you
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WOW THIS IS AMAZING lol Im talking on the phone with my friend about somthing very intence and saw this in my Deviantations thing and stoped mid-sentence
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Glad you like it - my apologies to your friend for interrupting your conversation 
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Haha no prob I sent her the link and she liked it too 
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Thanks
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I like the soft look of his irises. But I agree that it might have looked better if the nose was a little more in focus. But it's still an amazing shot.
How do you get such great shots of your cats? I've always wanted to take beautiful pictures of my cats like your pictures but they never sit still for me. And if I try to take a close-up picture like this on they always end up sniffing the camera! Do you take them farther away and them crop them or what?
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Well, having a digital SLR with a fast lens does help - particularly with snapping cats indoors. It means I don't have to resort to using a flash most of the time and I can get a relatively shallow depth of field (to throw the background clutter of my flat out of focus). My cats are sometimes interested in my camera, so I do have the same problem of them sniffing it at times - as I photograph them fairly often that helps a bit and I don't have to get that close with the lenses I have. Sunshine through a window is a great help too - they'll often bask in it which helps keep them still and it provides good quality light for taking photographs
Most of my photos are tweaked a bit from the original - I'd have never got into photography in the film era as I'm crap at framing shots through the viewfinder - I can figure out decent angles and roughly the right sort of frame but I tend to have to crop them afterwards after spending a little time thinking what would work best. I also tweak the colour/light balances a little as the cameras auto settings rarely get it quite right!
This particular photo was part of me experimenting with a new external flash for my camera - the base photo was interesting, but wasn't great - but thinking on it afterwards I did like the light on his face and he was square on to the camera, so I figured a close crop of his features would be quite striking. Here's the original shot if you're interested so you can see what it evolved from (most of my photos aren't adjusted quite so much from the original as this one though!).
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Ok wow...thank you so much for all the tips! Seriously...it was really helpful. Most people if I ask them a question they just kind of blow it off. I can't wait to try it out!
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