I decided to capture a cinematic headshot for my friend Talal AlDuaij. While I was waiting for him, I saw a cat. Whenever I walked, it followed me around. I was holding my Nikon D850 along with my Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR lens. I started taking pictures of it. I was much more confident and had a better camera body and an incredible lens than my last cat photoshoot.

The cat was photogenic, and it gave me different kinds of poses and followed me around.

I managed to shoot three stunning images.

I've always loved the low-key black cat with yellow eyes image. Unfortunately, the cat was not black, but I managed to colourize it in Adobe Photoshop. It took me approximately an hour and a half of tweaking and minor adjusting to reach the final result.

As a general rule, I hate to make significant changes to my subjects. However, I found it necessary to do so in this particular image. Ideally, I would have searched for a black cat and repeated the whole photoshoot given the opportunity. But the magic of Adobe Photoshop overpowered me, and I had to do it.

Compare the Before and After to See the Magic of Adobe Photoshop

The Gear I Used

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