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Tuna the cat, sceptical

Took this today with my compact flash on the camera, but turned back- and upwards with using the table cloth as a reflector. Tuna looked sceptical – maybe she knew that I would underexpose it by about one and a half stop?

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Tuna the cat, sceptical

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Another photo of Tuna the cat

Took this one for Zuleikha yesterday, so she could blog about it:

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Tuna the birthday cat

By the way, I used Mitchie’s Panasonic Lumix 20mm/1.7 lens here, at an aperture of f/2. Still love that one – it’s the perfect lens for the µ43rds system IMO, and this and the Oly 45mm/1.8 would be more or less all you need for a starter kit for general and portrait photography. Highly recommended (and I get nothing for recommendations).

Alternatives would be the 25mm lenses from both Panasonic (f/1.7 or f/1.4) or Olympus (f/1.8), or the 17mm/1.8 Olympus. But 40mm-equivalent is very close to the sensor diagonal, so I consider this one as the real standard lens for the system.

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Some photos of Zuleikha, one more of Tuna

I uploaded some photos of Zuleikha and one of Tuna today. These are like I took them with different cameras, like the Olympus E-520, E-PL1, and E-PL5 (didn’t have my E-M10 yet). Dates range from early 2010 until October of last year:

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Again, I changed nothing here, there’s neither any “retouching” nor any cropping, not even exposures are changed. All I did was adding some Exif and IPTC titles and tags. Life is too short for the rest – and I’m a photographer, not a painter.

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P.S.: Of course I asked Zuleikha, and she allowed me to upload these. That might change as she grows older, who knows… but maybe she’ll appreciate some memories as she does even now (she loves her baby pics, but these were mostly taken by Mitchie, not by me).

P.P.S.: Tuna was bribed with some cat food. Not while taking her photo with Mitchie’s camera and manually focused OM macro lens, but for allowing me to upload it 😉

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The inevitable cat photo(s)

I have my camera set to display black & white since a while. And for the moment, after reading this blog post of Mike Johnston, I decided to also set it back to record only jpg images, in the sRGB colour space. So what I see isn’t only what I get, but I’ll have to live with the results. Which means that I’ll have to do everything just right before I even press the shutter button.

Of course I want to test that in real life, with people, on the streets, everywhere. And with my studio strobes. Here’s a photo of Tuna the cat, my favourite model to test new things and techniques with:

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Tuna die Katze – Tuna the cat, November 2015

This was taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M10 camera and with the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1.4 fully open at f/1.4 – with the help of my two studio strobes firing at 1/16th power each. Remotely triggered using cheap Yongnuo radio remotes.

Thanks for reading. And thanks of course to Tuna for modeling like a pro.

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Tuna the cat

With single digit (Celsius) temperatures outside, our cat is enjoying the heated floor:

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One photo of me, two of the cat

Yesterday, Zuleikha took my picture, using my camera, lens, and studio strobe with a beauty dish attached:

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And today, I took some of Tuna. Here’s one with a bounced studio strobe, and another one from outside:

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All taken with the Olympus Micro Zuiko 45mm/1.8 lens, at apertures from f/2 to f/7.1. At the moment, and for living and breathing subjects, it’s by far my most used lens.

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Three of Tuna the cat

No portrait today. I took three cat photos instead, all with the 25mm “normal” lens wide open at f/1.4:

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Fascinating creatures, aren’t they?

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