About the Image(s)

Here is something that is a bit different for me. Normally I shy away from posting images of pets, since often they mean far more to the maker than to the viewer. We love our pets and they are an integral part of our families, but this attachment is difficult to carry through in our images since the subjects mean far more to us than what the image may portray. To be truly effective such images need to engage the viewer in a significant way to hold the viewer’s interest. That is what I sought to accomplish here. First, I waited until my cat (“Bogy”) was looking right at the lens to engage the viewer, and then I selected images that captured the interesting patterns in his eyes. The color in this image accurately reflects the color in his eyes. Luckily, he is a very patent and forgiving soul, so he did not mind having a photographer in his face for an extended period of time. Here I used my new Canon R6 mirrorless camera with a RF 24-105 mm F4 lens with the following settings; f/9.0, 45 mm, 1/250 sec, ISO 2,500. Can you believe the noise level (or lack there-of) in this ISO 2,500 image? No noise removal was applied to this image. Aside from being a close-up image this submission could also be considered a portrait image. Let me know what you think of the image.