Black Cat N Gold Fish
See my DNA... - or - View On Black
Fourteen year-old Pancho passed from this life on November 25, 2009.
Black cat (Pancho) gazes in desire of gold...fish. Photographed in my home (see the production stills of the setup in the studio set) there was MINIMAL photoshopping to make this shot look like this. (Yes, I'm "old school" there...) Fish, cat, bubbles and rocks were all in the shot as you see it. Only photoshopping was to remove the spots of fish poop.
He was a renal failure kitty - we'd been hydrating him (via I.V. saline drip every other day) for well over five years. Our vet says this may be a world's record...He was very sweet, loved to be held and was a constant companion to my wife - not nearly as nefarious as this photo makes him out to be. He was pretty scared of my lights and setup - not really interested in the fish at all.
It took a dab of catnip to get him next to the tank....
I built a special aquarium to facilitate this shot visible in the production stills (see the studio set of my photostream)....and no animals - fish, fowl or feline were harmed in the making of the photo. The goldfish was returned to PetSmart to enjoy the rest of its days out of jeopardy...
Camera: Hassleblad, 250mm lens with extensions, Norman studio strobes, FUJI 50 transparency film, scanned by Barron Photographics, Fort Worth, although, today, I'd do it on my Nikon CoolScan 9000.
Strobist data: Norman 4K pak studio strobe, two heads @ full power, 1 through a small - 16x22" Photoflex CineDome Softbox directly above set, 1 through a scoop with diffusion - behind the set pointing back to camera; plus an odd flash that screws into a standard light bulb socket in a clamp light below (diffused through chrystaline architectural tracing paper) - see the setup in the studio group of my photostream.
Black Cat N Gold Fish
See my DNA... - or - View On Black
Fourteen year-old Pancho passed from this life on November 25, 2009.
Black cat (Pancho) gazes in desire of gold...fish. Photographed in my home (see the production stills of the setup in the studio set) there was MINIMAL photoshopping to make this shot look like this. (Yes, I'm "old school" there...) Fish, cat, bubbles and rocks were all in the shot as you see it. Only photoshopping was to remove the spots of fish poop.
He was a renal failure kitty - we'd been hydrating him (via I.V. saline drip every other day) for well over five years. Our vet says this may be a world's record...He was very sweet, loved to be held and was a constant companion to my wife - not nearly as nefarious as this photo makes him out to be. He was pretty scared of my lights and setup - not really interested in the fish at all.
It took a dab of catnip to get him next to the tank....
I built a special aquarium to facilitate this shot visible in the production stills (see the studio set of my photostream)....and no animals - fish, fowl or feline were harmed in the making of the photo. The goldfish was returned to PetSmart to enjoy the rest of its days out of jeopardy...
Camera: Hassleblad, 250mm lens with extensions, Norman studio strobes, FUJI 50 transparency film, scanned by Barron Photographics, Fort Worth, although, today, I'd do it on my Nikon CoolScan 9000.
Strobist data: Norman 4K pak studio strobe, two heads @ full power, 1 through a small - 16x22" Photoflex CineDome Softbox directly above set, 1 through a scoop with diffusion - behind the set pointing back to camera; plus an odd flash that screws into a standard light bulb socket in a clamp light below (diffused through chrystaline architectural tracing paper) - see the setup in the studio group of my photostream.