Nopi celebrating Christmas

Happy Christmas Eve! This is Nopi, my little rescue kitten, celebrating her first Christmas with plenty of Christmas spirit dressed in the latest holiday fashion. Thank goodness my wife and I never had a daughter because we'd go bankrupt -- we'd have to build a special addition on the house because Dia would buy so many clothes for her! As you can imagine, getting a picture like this isn’t exactly easy. I photographed Nopi on a white comforter using only window light because I didn’t want the flat lighting typical of on-camera flash. The tradeoff for that is the necessity of a high ISO, but given the quality of the Canon R5 and the post-processing software to mitigate noise, my 8000 ISO setting wasn’t a problem. My other settings were 1/250 and f/6.3. I kept the shutter high because I was using a long lens (100-500mm) and because Nopi was moving all over the place. Her hat kept falling off, but with the help of my wife and a fast frame rate, I eventually got what I wanted.