Reel and Fly Photos
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I went out fishing yesterday and caught a few gorgeous trout, but didn’t have the camera with me because this day was to be mainly fishing, and I had a ways to hike. The fishing was good.
Later in the morning, I moved to another spot where I had broke off a nice trout last weekend on 8lb tippet and it would be easy to bring the camera with me. This weekend, I had on 12lb tippet – and armed with the camera – hooked up :)……..and tippet broke off on the set again :'(
Didn’t have any more hookups, but I did find a cool piece of driftwood and tried to set up a reel and fly shot. So, below are the shots I came up with. 4 color and the same in B&W versions. They are all pretty similar, but I am having a hard time narrowing them down. So, which ones do you like best?
Color:
B&W:
Nice color & light on the reel, though the fly is a little lost in the darkness in them.
Black is hard like that – a little silver reflected light might pick it out a bit or you could tickle it up in post maybe ?
The log driftwood and plain water background are cool as well, but the way the rod is situated makes the shot a bit busy.
I think if the rod was only on top of the wood and the background was all OOF water it would be killer.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very nice, I just a picky bastard.. 😉
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#1, at least so far. Maybe burn a little on the next few color images? #2 has strong potential and would probably be my favorite with better color because it presents the fly very well. Very nice work on the B&W, and maybe that could be better for some uses, but IMVHO the color really catches the eye for that particular image.
Nice shots John … I like the colors. I’m partial to #2.
The fly is an articulated fly by Kelly Galoup called a Sex Dungeon. There is an excellent IA podcast that Zach did with Kelly, that talks about his development of this and other articulated flies and how he fishes them.
Great podcast and great fly!
John sometimes when you get a string of very similiar images you have to look for the tiniest of details in order to decide which one to keep. This is normally my 2nd and 3rd culling pass.
I get this alot just bcase of the nature of what I do alot of. Sometimes I’ll have 4 to 10 images that are exrtemely similiar and its a blade of bass in the breeze that determines which one I keep.
Thoughts
#1) underexposed, I’d delete it#2) Exposure is good, but Due to the shallow DoF the reel is OOF. Nothing wrong with that if that how you want it.
3) Not sure Id want the view of the fly from he back end
#4) Kind of flat with the straight on perspective, could stand with a 1/3 more exposure or lightening of the shadows.
Of them, I like 2 the most
Like Dave I think the fly is lost in the bg of the timber, might have been better positioned against the reel seat, or the cork.
Morsie
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