Bobcat

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-- Matt Cox (cox.matthew@worldnet.att.net), September 11, 1999

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Excellent. Technique and location details please. As this is a critique forum, I would have to say that more space around the bobcat, especially in front, would give a much better sense of motion.

-- jason elsworth (jason.elsworth@xtra.co.nz), September 11, 1999.

Very nice (and lucky) shot, Bobcats are hard to locate and even harder to get close to. Just getting it full framed is very good. Pat

-- pat j. krentz (krentz@cci-29palms.com), September 11, 1999.

I'm assuming this had to be taken under "controlled" conditions. These buggers are too smart and wary to let you get this close to them in the wild. It is a very nice image, if it was taken in the wild, my hats off to you, if it wasn't I still like it.

It would be nice to hear some background information

-- steven sisti (stevesisti@aol.com), September 12, 1999.


Great shot, a little more room in the front would be ideal, but you have captured this animal beautifully! Could you provide more technical information, location and such. Thanks, Donna

-- Donna P. Bollenbach (cassidy@icubed.net), September 12, 1999.

Although flattering that some folks think I could get a shot like this of a wild bobcat, I suspect it would be just about impossible. This is a game farm animal in Colorado, which the handler was working back and forth across a rock formation with me standing about 15 feet below. At the time of the shoot, this "supercat" pose against the blue sky was exactly what I pre-visualized, but this is the only one that came out spot-on out of about 20 attempts. I have plenty of shots with the cat a bit out of the frame, or in the frame but not tack sharp. I guess one tack-sharp, full-frame one like this is all I could have asked for. I used a Nikon N90s with 300f4 AF lens, handheld, probably wide open. I metered off the blue sky 45deg up the horizon opposite the sun.

-- Matt Cox (cox.matthew@worldnet.att.net), September 12, 1999.


The results are great. Would like to see more face though.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), September 14, 1999.

I'm a bobcat-lover. My "secret spot" is called Bobcat Hill. The license plate on my truck says "BOBCAT". I've seen bobcats in the wild several times (mostly at Bobcat Hill!).... I wanna say that, though I like the shot, the fact that its handler made it jump 20 times for you disturbs me. Game farms provide critters to shoot with both cameras and guns (not necessarily the same farms, of course), and without being hardcore judgmental about this, I'd like to say that "trophy" animals already are being bred to capitalize on their "best" qualities, and moreover IMHO, a game-farm bobcat is not a wild bobcat. It is a domestic animal and, under the rules of this forum, a photo of one is not a nature shot! ;)

--John

-- John Wall (jwall@earthjustice.org), October 14, 1999.


Love bobcats, but this picture would have been really enhanced if you used Adobe PhotoShop, or something similar. The blurred bottom portion doesn nothing for the picture and you could easily replace it with the blue sky. Other than that, I love its shape and the angle. I'm new to this forum. Is it OK to submit digitally "enhanced" photographs?

-- Thomas B. Roach (sigint@thegrid.net), December 15, 1999.

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