Sunny day in the garden

Hey guys, long time no speak! I was away at uni from September until February but I'm back home for good now (long story) and so I've been able to get about and play with my camera more.

These are the only decent shots I got when I took it out in the garden with my two cats in the middle of April; I have a few portrait style shots of my sister that I need to play with but the sun was so strong and bright... Bleh.

Anyway, onto the pictures, and our model for the day was Poppet. I was trying to focus on having the lens on MF and doing it myself, which didn't always work because sometimes I was a little slow on the focussing but for the most part seemed to work a lot better than AF.

I know how you guys hate selective colouring, but I decided to have a play with this anyway:

kiss_me_now9 wrote in post #7838703
I know they're a bit blown out, is there anything I can change to stop that in future? Damn white cats

(a) Dye the cats. (b) Shoot in the shade. (c) Meter for the cats and let the grass be dark.

*Gets out hair dye* Black or tabby, they leave white hairs everywhere anyway

Kind of like trying to shoot a white horse, huh. LOL. .. I tried something.. don't know if it will help or not.. but I went into the settings and reduced my contrast. (well, because I have to do a bunch of event photos in direct sun..) I thought it might help.. and it does seem to help.

Cute kitty.

i choose (A)dye the cats
lol