828 test shot

Flying cat! Just great!

Good grab shot ! *R*

yes thats great

 

my cat is too lazy and too fat

i cant do such a shot ...

I had a crazy cat like this once and one day it just flew off and never came back. Great timing and very funny.

Thanks for the comments, "Tony" is a ragdoll cat he is a blast to watch! I had just gotten my new camera "sony 828" and since it was way below 0 degrees here. Much too cold to do any outside shooting. I was sitting with it in my hands when Tony must have read my mind. Cause all of a sudden he started jumping around. I just took the shot. He is the star!

Is it alive after this test 828?

Extra!

And he is ready for more! He loves to play! For a further explanation he was chasing a feather toy and leaps like this after it.

Geeez, he looks like my flying squirrel...bet THEY'D get along :-). Great shot!

He does resemble a flying squirrel doesnt he? Maybe he isnt a ragdoll after all, gasp what an expensive squirrel! LOL

This one caught my eye. There is something about it i cannot place yet. I think its the cats position all stretched out. The lighting is perfect. I almost thought this is was composite until i really gave it a good look.

Very impressive test-flight.

Well, this shot is the hit of the day in the school office :-).

Nothing special here, just a new camera and a crazy cat. No post

processing other than the resizing. Just got a sony DSC-F828 and i

was trying it out and Tony decided to play along. Thoughts or

comments welcomed.

That is one athletic cat! Keep working on this--if you had a plainer background and could see some of his/her face, you'd have a 7/7 for sure. Very cool!

Did you kick it?:)

so funny!!!!!!!^________________^

a decisive moment well captured!

 

Amazing capture. Although the photo lacks technical detail, the subject matter more than makes up for it. Excellent!

NO CATS were hurt during the making of this photo!

Did you throw it down or he was playing himself? good timing! ///A

Ok, I must say this photo sure is getting a lot of attention. To answer some of the questions. No the cat didnt get hurt he is up and jumping around like always. He was not picked up and tossed or anything like that. He was chasing one of those feather toys and this shot actually caught him at the height of his jump. As far as capturing the pic, to answer the question above it was totally spur of the moment there was no thought that went into it. I had just received my new camera Sony dsc-F828 and was trying to learn where all the controls were. I had it turned on and was adjusting exposures and testing the external flash i had bought for it to see if it would trigger with the camera. I noticed "Tony " had begun his routine of chasing the feather toy. I just pointed the camera set it in manual adjusted the ev to 0 set the aperture at F2.2 and figured about 1/40 i bounced the flash off the ceiling and here is the shot. Right as it came out of the camera. Ill say it was pretty good for a test shot! So there you have it Flying Tony!! Thanks for all the comments I think he will get a special meal tonite. DG

You can barely see the strings suspending the cat ...

 

j/k

Super Cat flys with the greatest of ease!

Love it, Cat's Rock!!

Great exposure, I would like to see a series of these shots. Go For It.

I think you meant "test flight" !

Fantastic! Looks like Matrix-cat. Have you ever seen the book "Mourka"? Great b/w photographs by Martha Swope - the "autobiography" of George Balanchine's cat Mourka, known for his balletic superleaps. It's by Balanchine's wife, Tanaquil Le Clerc. (Out of print I think.)

Omg, that is funny! It reminds me of a cat I had as a child that played hide and seek with us and climbed walls. Fun shot!! Thanks for sharing it.