Wild cat caught on camera!!!

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Think it would have been a better shot if you'd had him head end towards you and looking at camera and body away. Although with wild animals it can be hard to get them to pose

P.s. I want your cat.

kd

Maybe, but I actually quite like that he's facing away but looking back, to me it has more of a David Attenborough feel.

 

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yeah, amazing cat.

I would go for a tighter crop, cut out the dead space to the left and top, have the cat looking into the right of the photo to the empty space there and out of the frame.

Thanks for the feedback DP, I know what your saying is the considered 'correct' thing to do, but I'll just explain my rationale.

I wasn't looking for a typical rule of 1/3 shot as although they 'work', they can be boring if there isn't any variety (this is part of a set), also the white frame in the background would cause issues as it's an eye magnet and would unbalance the frame imo.

So I decided to use the white frames to frame the cat. The frames fall on the 3rds rather than the subject. Lastly the shrubs in shadow are used as natural vignette and overall symmetry/balance.

 

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Yeh would have preferred eye contact, but unlike my golden, he just kind of does what he likes.

 

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Stunning cat!

I a have street moggy form a rescue center, B&W tuxedo but fairly irregular. She was an orphan and bottle fed form birth so extremely human friendly.

Thanks DP, you should post a picture.

 

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We have 2 cats one of which absolutely hates my cameras. One thing is that flickr loves cats!

I have the opposite problem, my cat loves my camera and starts purring and rubbing his head on it. I love my 85, which means often I can't take the picture I want due to minimum focus distances.