Well I was playing around with low light photography at home, just for the heck of it - It was late afternoon, I was just shooting a hawk in my backyard, and swapped out the big bird lens for a small 50mm F1.7 prime that I usually put on the camera when I put it away. I saw my cat Mickey lying on the carpet playing with a toy, and decided the dark room and low light would be fun for some wide-open high ISO shots.
The cat is an adopted stray I took in back in June, and she was with me through December, then went outside and didn't come back...I figured her for gone, until she showed up one night a month later...I've since had her spayed, got all the shots, and she's now an indoor cat, loving life! The only other photos I had of her were from many months ago, so it was nice to get some updated shots too.
I dialed to A priority, set the aperture to F1.7, cranked the ISO to 1600, and got down on the floor:
I got her a collapsable tube to play around in which she loves...here she is loooking through a side hole as I was shooting through the end hole:
After running through, she came out the end hole:
The camera still gets her attention - this reflecting glass thing pointing at her and making clicking noises!:
Here's a very close crop of that last shot - not bad for ISO1600:
So that's my cat!
Your window looks just like our glass front door. Everyday our chocolate lab Rocky sits and waits for my DH to come home and when the sun shines in mid-day, all you can see are nose smudges and slobber.
