Official Big Cat Day thread

Looking forward to these, shame we couldnt come down for this.
 
Only just started mine!! ... :cautious:

Would like to thank everyone again for turning up and making it such a great day.

I expect to see some amazing shots over the next day or two ... :bat:


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Looking forward to seeing everyone's shots, and absolutely gutted that I couldn't make it :( Been in lots of pain and lots of :crying: today, so just as well I didn't go in the end!
 
Here is one of mine. A self portrait if you will.... :LOL::D

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You were missed (Cheryl & Matt & Sue)

Hope you are feeling better now Cheryl ... :hug:

There are plans in progress to book a couple of dates for next year so you will be first in the queue.
 
Blimey that 2nd shot is splendidididily (y)
 
nice shots folks (y)

ian those are very good mate :clap:
will and would love to make the next one of these meets..
keep them coming folks..


:naughty: might see the big cat thread getting some more hits soon :naughty:
 
I've just got back home, a cup of tea is in order after that journey to France ;)
I may have a quick look at mine, but not promising anything.

Some nice piccies above (y)

Oh, It was good to meet everyone today, I really enjoyed myself.
 
Just a couple from today, too tired to do anything else.

I've tried something a little different.

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TFL
 
OK one from me.......


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:clap: Some super pictures here, i really must go on one of these!!
 
A couple more

This one of a series has raised a little alarm bell for me re the AF issue, i need to go through the rest of them and check if i had the AF point over the cats head as they are all soft as it ran towards me, and this isnt the sharpest i have seen from the camera !!
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Oh and one from the 20D with the 17-40 on :)
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Here's one from the 10d using the Tamron 17-35 @ 17mm.

Pepo the Cheetah
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Some pretty impressive shots coming out :clap: Just how close did you guys get to the cats? :thinking: Matts shot of the cheetah looks like it was sniffing the lens :eek:
 
Oh dear....I'm nervous of posting any now, those are all so good! Ian, I'm so jealous of the Tiger running out of the water....mine was OOF+ ;)


Anyway, really nice to meet you all; it was a really super day. Anyone else got aching arms from holding a camera all day?

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Carole the Snow and Amur Leopards are very very nice :) shame you clipped the Amur's ear but im being nitty now ;) the Cheetah and Tiger would stand a light sharpen in PS too :)

im getting used to carrying the kit now, my neck suffers when i drag the 600 about though lol
 
Carole, heres a quick edit in CS2

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This was USM on the lightness channel only, applied 4 or 5 times (cant remember now)

After resizing,

Switch to Lab Colour Mode,

Select the lightness channel.

Apply USM with these settings, Amount 100%, Radius 0.2 pixels, Threshold 0, up to 5 times depending on the suject

Switch back to RGB mode

and save.
 
I use the labmode sharpening on the lightness channel.
Using amount 100%, radius 0.2%, threshold 0. I apply this upto 5 times
which reduces the risk of adding artifacts to the image.

You have no reason to be nervous Carole, keep posting. (y)
 
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