Infra Red Cats

[tomcat]

For those IR shooters who are also cat lovers...

#1


#2


#3

[photoexpress]

Thanks for sharing, Tomcat. I like #1 (cute).

btw, how many cats do you have at home

Cheers!

[airforce1]

Nice portraits on the cats. Bring them out on the grass areas the contrast will better.

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by photoexpress Thanks for sharing, Tomcat. I like #1 (cute). btw, how many cats do you have at home Cheers!

Thanks. She is quite photogenic. I have 15 at last count. #3 is my latest. He's a Russian Blue adopted from one of my friends.

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by airforce1 Nice portraits on the cats. Bring them out on the grass areas the contrast will better.

It certainly would, but I can't really do that. I live in a high-rise apartment with no gardens and cats can't be walked like dogs. That's the beauty of an IR-modified camera though. It lets me take IR pictures in the shade that's impossible otherwise.

[Germinc]

they look like plain ordinary cat pictures, what so special?

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by Germinc they look like plain ordinary cat pictures, what so special?

umm... quite difficult to answer such a question.... a lot depends on what you mean by 'plain ordinary cat pictures'......maybe the IR gurus here can chip in.

All I can say is that in IR photography, the colours of objects that we see and take for granted under normal light appear differently. The colours (of the fur and eyes, etc) of the cats in these photos don't look like they do in normal light (check them out in the album in my signature if you are interested).

Another way of looking at this is that these pics could also be interesting to see (to those who are interested in the first place, of course ) because it is downright difficult if not impossible for non-IR modified cameras to capture such IR shots in the shade especially of subjects like cats which don't like to stay still while you shoot even if you were using a normal camera.

[Francis247]

Originally Posted by tomcat umm... quite difficult to answer such a question.... a lot depends on what you mean by 'plain ordinary cat pictures'......maybe the IR gurus here can chip in. All I can say is that in IR photography, the colours of objects that we see and take for granted under normal light appear differently. The colours (of the fur and eyes, etc) of the cats in these photos don't look like they do in normal light (check them out in the album in my signature if you are interested). Another way of looking at this is that these pics could also be interesting to see (to those who are interested in the first place, of course ) because it is downright difficult if not impossible for non-IR modified cameras to capture such IR shots in the shade especially of subjects like cats which don't like to stay still while you shoot even if you were using a normal camera.

Hi Tomcat,

Agree with you. Non-IR modified cameras using IR Filters will have very long shutter speed which is very difficult to do animal portrait in IR because the subject will tends to move around which will cause a blurred effect under long shutter speed.