I love working with very shallow depth of field and when a shot comes out exactly as I planned, well, I just have to share it. I really had hoped to post a non-critter post, but today I set up my soft box light, Maya was on the printer, and I couldn’t resist. She is looking up at the soft box which I had just to camera left and about six feet up and angled down toward Maya. I metered the shot, snapped my fingers so she’d look up, and bingo! Got it! Also, I used the pop-up on my camera at its lowest output (1/128) to provide just a teeny bit of fill.
And, of course, I couldn’t resist a black and white shot.
Carissa Snedeker Photography 
Well when you like that of course you would be! 😉
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Fascinated me these photographs but especially the looking eyes of Maya in the second one is amazing! Great shots. Thank you dear Carissa, blessing and happiness, love, nia
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Thank you,nia!
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Ok, you probably don’t want to hear this, but I used to tell my students when using shallow depth of field to separate subject from background to be careful and to make sure that there is enough DOF to keep the subject in sharp focus. Both of these images would be improved if Maya’s right eye was sharp and in focus. One more F-stop down would probably do it, may two stops.
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Don’t mind hearing this at all! I’ve been through critique in class before and can take it, and in fact, welcome it! Thanks for stopping by.
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Yep, critique is part of the process, the hardest thing is to get students to critique each other and accept criticism .
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Indeed! The one thing our professor would not accept from us was “I like it.” Nope, we had to say WHY.
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Wonderful lighting. And such a beautiful kitty.
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Thank you.
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