Rasheed's ultra-long exposure

Rasheed's ultra-long exposure
Originally uploaded by aaipodpics.

My Bengal cat Rasheed sleeping. Notice the parts of the body that move during a cat's sleep (only one ear is motion blurred). That must be a very efficient way to be alert while sleeping.

This is a combined shot consisting of 10 exposures of 15 s. It is the longest exposure time my Canon Powershot S3 IS can take with a single click on the exposure button, using a custom self-timer. There was considerable time lag between the seperate shots, because of the automatic noise reduction. The 10 shots of 15 s each took about 4 minutes to take.

The 10 photo's were imported in a photo editing program (The Gimp) as layers at 10% transparacy, flattened, levels automatically adjusted and sharpened using the Photokit Smart Sharpening script.

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