Flying cat! Just great!

Good grab shot ! *R*

yes thats great

my cat is too lazy and too fat i cant do such a shot ...

I had a crazy cat like this once and one day it just flew off and never came back. Great timing and very funny.

Thanks for the comments, "Tony" is a ragdoll cat he is a blast to watch! I had just gotten my new camera "sony 828" and since it was way below 0 degrees here. Much too cold to do any outside shooting. I was sitting with it in my hands when Tony must have read my mind. Cause all of a sudden he started jumping around. I just took the shot. He is the star!

Is it alive after this test 828? Extra!

And he is ready for more! He loves to play! For a further explanation he was chasing a feather toy and leaps like this after it.

Geeez, he looks like my flying squirrel...bet THEY'D get along :-). Great shot!

He does resemble a flying squirrel doesnt he? Maybe he isnt a ragdoll after all, gasp what an expensive squirrel! LOL

This one caught my eye. There is something about it i cannot place yet. I think its the cats position all stretched out. The lighting is perfect. I almost thought this is was composite until i really gave it a good look.

Very impressive test-flight.

Well, this shot is the hit of the day in the school office :-).

That is one athletic cat! Keep working on this--if you had a plainer background and could see some of his/her face, you'd have a 7/7 for sure. Very cool!

Did you kick it?:)

so funny!!!!!!!^________________^ a decisive moment well captured!

Amazing capture. Although the photo lacks technical detail, the subject matter more than makes up for it. Excellent!

NO CATS were hurt during the making of this photo!

Did you throw it down or he was playing himself? good timing! ///A

Ok, I must say this photo sure is getting a lot of attention. To answer some of the questions. No the cat didnt get hurt he is up and jumping around like always. He was not picked up and tossed or anything like that. He was chasing one of those feather toys and this shot actually caught him at the height of his jump. As far as capturing the pic, to answer the question above it was totally spur of the moment there was no thought that went into it. I had just received my new camera Sony dsc-F828 and was trying to learn where all the controls were. I had it turned on and was adjusting exposures and testing the external flash i had bought for it to see if it would trigger with the camera. I noticed "Tony " had begun his routine of chasing the feather toy. I just pointed the camera set it in manual adjusted the ev to 0 set the aperture at F2.2 and figured about 1/40 i bounced the flash off the ceiling and here is the shot. Right as it came out of the camera. Ill say it was pretty good for a test shot! So there you have it Flying Tony!! Thanks for all the comments I think he will get a special meal tonite. DG

You can barely see the strings suspending the cat ...

j/k

Super Cat flys with the greatest of ease! Love it, Cat's Rock!! Great exposure, I would like to see a series of these shots. Go For It.

I think you meant "test flight" !

Fantastic! Looks like Matrix-cat. Have you ever seen the book "Mourka"? Great b/w photographs by Martha Swope - the "autobiography" of George Balanchine's cat Mourka, known for his balletic superleaps. It's by Balanchine's wife, Tanaquil Le Clerc. (Out of print I think.)

Omg, that is funny! It reminds me of a cat I had as a child that played hide and seek with us and climbed walls. Fun shot!! Thanks for sharing it.

very cool shot indeed! that external flash seems to work very well, exposure is perfect... was the flash bouncing off the ceiling? the lighting is nice and very even, no hot spots. again, perfect exposure! could we get some technical data - ISO, aperture, shutter speed? i'm pretty impressed that you were able to capture this with the F828 and external flash, the shutter lag must be quite low (certainly closer to a Canon 10D than a point-and-shoot).

Marc, there is no noticable shutter lag with the 828. This truly suprised me and is one of the reasons I love the camera amongst many others. The 828 has gotten a bad rap and its too bad because all cameras have some shortcomings but this one it seems has had its perceived shortcomings overblown. I will say I was not capable of doing this type of shot with my 707. Notice I said I and not the camera as I truly dont know. Now aperture I had initially thought was F2.2 but i went thru the exif on the pic and it was F2.5 which makes sense due to it was probably about 35mm and not the 28 i thought i was at, the iso was 100 the ev value was 0 and the shutter speed was 1/40th the ceiling is about 5 feet up and the subject the cat was approx 8 feet in front of me. The flash is nothing but probably the cheapest external flash one can buy its a vivitar 2000. I just picked it up to evaluate how an external flash would work with this camera lets say im very impressed as i also after capturing the picture said "WOW Dead on!" I particulary noticed that his white fur was not overexposed which in the past has always been what has ruined this type of shot for me other than the shutter lag on the 707. there has been no post processing of the file other than cropping and resizng to meet the posting guidelines here. It is straight from the camera. Personally this picture has brought me that inner satisfaction all photgraphers seach for when we shoot. And its even sweeter since it was the first series of shots I took with the 828. Ive taken 500 since and im very pleased with the cameras performance. Thanks for your comments and I hope I answered the questions. P.S. "Tony" the cat has been signed to a contract I now need to go get him fitted for a crash helmet LOL. He is a riot, and im glad the picture is making people smile. I may attempt some more of this nature in the near future.

Regards and again thanks,

Dave

Fun shot! I can almost imagine the other cat in the picture looking on and thinking "whatta show-off!".... :-)

Wow...a flying cat!!!

Funniest pic in months! :-)

Haha.. so cute.. Would have been great to see the front to see the expression in its face. Great catch though.

I hope you didn't throw that cat. I can never forgive you for throwing that cat.

Jake, DG has already said "No the cat didnt get hurt he is up and jumping around like always. He was not picked up and tossed or anything like that."

The cat was not picked up, thrown, tossed or anything like that.

I absolutely confirm!! I've 11 cats at home, and they jump out of bed/cupboards/doors/windows like your cat in this snapshot!! ^___^

Ele

The cat is cute!!..but I wish the background wasn't so crowded..

I have to return to this photo over and over again. Zippy loves it. She purchased a springboard and she's practicing her spreadeagles. She does not launch very high (2" is her record) but she does like to dream. Check her out in her own folder.

GREAT test shot. I have the older version of your camera... you have a great one... enjoy it!

great CATch ;-)

Tony must be a young ragdoll. His agility is astounding. You must be commended for a truly unique shot. Our 7 yr old Ragdoll named Birdie used to fly too. Unfortunately now at 18-l/2 pounds, she prefers to sashay on all fours. You definitely have a showstopper. Congrats.

Hi, Tony will be 2 years old in May. He weighs 11 lbs. 1 oz. Our other Ragdoll will be 4 years old and weighs 8 oz. more but she does not jump as high as Tony. Thanks for the comment.

Nice

awesome!

I have no other words than the previous. Only FANTASTIC!