Serval cat

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image showing Serval cat

ThornyBeard on October 26th, 2021 at 12:05 UTC »

I originally read the title as “several cat” and was like ‘no, there’s only one.’

Samuel_Laululintu on October 26th, 2021 at 12:54 UTC »

Very rarely would I point it out in a comment, but this is a photoshopped image. I've just been scrolling for pics to use for my photography class tomorrow and I'll use this one as one of the examples. It is a cute composition, but it is good practise to try and recognise what is real in this time and age.

The questions for the class would be – how can you tell? Here we have the all the usual suspects: depth of field (focus on different parts of the composition, such as the softer edges of the serval), shadows in contrast to the light direction (backlight in this case) and colour balance of the layers. Usually it starts with a "double take" because something just feels off in the picture.

Here is the original background.

IglooPunisher on October 26th, 2021 at 15:45 UTC »

Sumbitch looks like it was 'shopped on a flip phone.