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Run Mouse, run!
« on: February 22, 2013, 02:19:54 PM »
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2013, 06:47:08 PM »
speedy gonzales?

how do you edit a image and get this results?
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2013, 07:43:34 PM »
Very Carefully!  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2013, 06:59:33 AM »
This pic was taken at just the precise moment by a professional nature photographer.
Perfect timing, or maybe lucky timing. The cool thing is that the mouse has a small piece
of cat food in his mouth and he's haulin' ass with it.  haha ;D
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2013, 07:58:38 AM »
Did it mention if the mouse ended up as the cats' second course?



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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2013, 10:25:11 AM »
 ;D ;D We'll never know if he made it.
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2013, 10:45:35 AM »
Cats certainly can outrun a mouse, I've seen that myself.....fast they are.... :) ;D 8)
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2013, 12:02:56 PM »
Cats certainly can outrun a mouse, I've seen that myself.....fast they are.... :) ;D 8)

Cats have longer legs. We need handicapping rules for cats and mice!
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2013, 12:45:57 PM »
Amazing photo, look at the claws, the cat is just about to go SWAT !

speedy gonzales?

how do you edit a image and get this results?
High speed camera, very fast frame rate, used generally in Nature documentaries, Sport, MythBusters for slo-Mo of explosions , etc.

Only chance the mouse has is if he pullls to the left or right, the cat will most likely tumble and mouse will get away to live another day. Looking at those talons I think the cat got him, but the beauty is we'll never know.  ;)
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2013, 01:17:47 PM »
I just wonder if the mouse is an ordinary mouse. Most mice are mouse-coloured. Laboratory mice are albinos, that is to say white. This mouse is mostly white but the hind third of it is mouse-coloured. Might it be a special breed that is particularly good at evading cats? I for one hope so.
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2013, 05:14:58 PM »
Well if it's anything like Tom and Jerry, the mouse hole is just inches in front of him and he just makes it through
the hole, then the cat slams into the wall.  ;D
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2013, 09:47:09 PM »
Amazing photo, look at the claws, the cat is just about to go SWAT !

speedy gonzales?

how do you edit a image and get this results?
High speed camera, very fast frame rate, used generally in Nature documentaries, Sport, MythBusters for slo-Mo of explosions , etc.

Only chance the mouse has is if he pullls to the left or right, the cat will most likely tumble and mouse will get away to live another day. Looking at those talons I think the cat got him, but the beauty is we'll never know.  ;)

Actually, to capture an image like this one, you use a slow exposure. The fast exposure times are to prevent this blurring effect.

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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2013, 07:55:33 AM »
Thanks Rudge, yes you are correct of course. If it was taken with a High speed exposure it would have perfect clarity, no blurring. I stand corrected.  ;)

The more I look at the pic, the more I think the mouse is a goner.


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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2013, 04:01:49 PM »
Yes it doesn't look good for the mouse.  If he'd only dropped the cat food it might have given him
just a tiny bit more speed.  ::)  I would like to think he made it and went on to live a normal happy
mouse life. In somebody else's house of course.  ;D
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Re: Run Mouse, run!
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2013, 07:26:44 PM »
This photo was most likely created digitally.

Take a look at how far the mouse's black rump is blurred. It goes all the way back to "at least" the cat's left paw. That means that the exposure time would have had to be at least that long.

Now notice how In focus the mouse's head and the cat's head are. You can practically count the whiskers on the cat.

There are three ways to get images of things moving fast, you can move the camera very carefully at the same speed of the subject, which will create a focused subject with a blurred background or, you can hold the camera still, which will create a blurred subject and a clear background.

The third way is to use a very fast shutter speed which will create a clear subject AND background.

There is no way that I am aware of to create "selective" blurring of both the subject AND the background.

I suspect very careful use of a "smudge tool" that created this image. ;)

I hope the mouse got away, if it was ever even really there to began with.  ;D ;D    
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