Every night before we go to bed, Dusty goes crazy when we open up the basement. It is like a whole new world for him to explore and he usually tires himself out pretty quickly by jumping around and playing.
We usually spend about 30 minutes or so playing with him and the other cats before they have chilled out enough to go to bed. The dogs usually just lay on the bed and look at them going crazy.
I am so glad that Dusty's eyes aren't all crazy like they used to be. He was so cross-eyed when we first brought him home, but now he looks normal. He hasn't grown much and is still very tiny, which is cool because I don't think that he will get much bigger than he is now. Keiichi and Rusty got huge over the past two years since we got them, but I think Dusty will always be pretty tiny.
You can see here how tiny he still is next to Harley's big head. I think Harley is ready for him to chill out and lay down next to him. Dusty usually ends up cuddling with us on the bed and sometimes lays down against Harley to snuggle.
One of Dusty's favorite things to do at night is to hide under the bed and slap at our toes when we walk by.
He is such a weirdo.
Titus wanted to be close to the action as well. He mainly wanted Dusty's little fish toy.
But he was sad when I wouldn't give it to him.
For these images, I was using my 50mm lens and my Canon Speedlite.
I usually use my 100mm lens with the speed lite, but I wanted to see how things turned out with a wider lens. The only bad thing about using the 50mm lens is that it can't focus up close, so sometimes the flash will illuminate a lot of the stuff in the background instead of just illuminating the subject and keeping the background black.
But if you are able to get your subject in focus right at the point where the lens is able to focus, that is the sweet spot of keeping the background dark. It was a lot harder than you think because with a 50mm, you need to be closer and when I got closer to Dusty, he thought it was time to play and he would usually move right before I took the photo and I was shooting some of these wide open at f/1.2 so the focus would get off pretty easily whenever he would move.
