» Topic: images by jason jagger

This topic has 31 replies, 16 voices, and was last updated Apr 11, 2009 at 2:20 am by john michael white.

Viewing 20 posts - 1 through 20 (of 32 total)

1 2 →

Author

Posts
Mar 25, 2009 at 4:02 pm #7985

jason jagger
Member

lets start with rising trout for now.Not too many in the low resolution
file right now,but will convert more soon.

Mar 25, 2009 at 5:07 pm #67153

Zach Matthews
The Itinerant Angler

These are good, Jason, but would you care to give us a little context?

Mar 25, 2009 at 5:18 pm #67154

cole m.
Member

Those are awesome!

Mar 25, 2009 at 5:47 pm #67155

jason jagger
Member

Zach sorry,I was in a hurry…First one is on a pond,eating callibaetis,all
the rest are on a tailwater,mostly this fall.I think the first one was on Catchmagazine,but the rest are not published.
I posted a thread on the drake,and will try and not duplicate it?

Mar 25, 2009 at 6:25 pm #67156

Corey Kruitbosch
Member

Fantastic shots .. Big fan of your photos!

Mar 25, 2009 at 6:46 pm #67157

lee church
Member

Zach
I posted a thread on the drake,and will try and not duplicate it?

Entirely different joint over here but introductions are nice too.

Mar 25, 2009 at 7:49 pm #67158

Tim Angeli
Member

Jason,

Good to see you on this board. I never get tired of seeing your photos…they are decorated the walls of my apartment at school and my parents house. Don’t worry about duplicating what you put on the Drake, this is a very different crowd.

Mar 25, 2009 at 8:21 pm #67159

jason jagger
Member

Thanks Tim,and Corey-congrats on the Midcurrent piece.
I’m from northwest Colorado,been guiding some,still seasonally.I
always wanted to get images that were different,but still represented
our sport.
Here are some from last October…

Mar 25, 2009 at 8:42 pm #67160

Tim Angeli
Member

#4 from that group is absolutely awesome! Aside from the light spot

Mar 25, 2009 at 9:26 pm #67161

Mike McKeown
Member

Great, Awesome, Brill… I mean really, they are some of the best I have seen… I loved them in Catch…

But how??? a little insight would be awesome…

Mar 25, 2009 at 10:17 pm #67162

jason jagger
Member

Mike-volume is an effective tool-take thousands,get 5.Learn how close
you can get to a fish without a flyrod,and still be comfortable,sitting
preferably.Hope for a hatch,hope the rocks aren’t as hard as the last
place,and once in your spot-don’t move for hours.
The minimum focusing distance on your lense is important-expensive
prime lenses in 300mm plus can only start to focus after 12-15ft.They are tack sharp on the football field,but its hard to see a BWO from 6 yards.

Mar 25, 2009 at 10:49 pm #67163

John Bennett
Member

The hard part is the waiting, and hoping for a rise in clear enough water. Got everything but clear water, few of our streams get that clear, so seeing them as they come up is difficult 🙂

Very nice jason.

Re lenses.
The perfect lens might be the Canon 100-400 L. 400mm with a MFD of 6 feet. Another good lens might be the 300mm f4, its MFD is about 4 to 5 feet I beleive.

This year I plan on trying again with the 500mm f4 and 66mm in tubes. Should get the MFD down to around 6 or 7 feet.

Mar 25, 2009 at 11:22 pm #67165

jason jagger
Member

john-the 100-400mm is the one I use the most,but also a 70-200mm
w/1.4x teleconvertor.I’ve tried the extension tubes,makes the AF
sluggish,and you lose an aperture or two.I try and use nonIS
lenses,or turn it off,prefer a monopod.No filters,(sometimes a circ. polarizer) no hoods,let the light in!
Here are some bonefish/pelican shots from venezuela,competition
at its finest,minnows lose both ways.

Mar 25, 2009 at 11:25 pm #67164

anonymous
Member

Welcome to the

Mar 25, 2009 at 11:36 pm #67166

lee church
Member

Great stuff.

Mar 25, 2009 at 11:47 pm #67167

John Bennett
Member

Yeah, it’s a struggle.
So many variables to contend with and alot of hours sitting waiting possibly on nothing if theres no insect activity 🙂 Been there, done that 🙂 Then you get the days when you have the time and you get a hatch but nothings in range, or fish arent rising 🙂 Then you get the days where it all comes together including sunlight and the fish/bugs get active and then you think to yourself.

What the help am I doing, theres big fish rising to dries and Im watching it???????

Lol.
Seriosuly the biggest hurdle here is water clarity. Only a few small streams are clear enough that you get to see the trout rising in time and they tend to be Brookies. Where I fish for Browns its not as clear and they normally hit fast, by he time they register with youreye and you hit the shutter its happened. :'(.

Mar 26, 2009 at 12:06 am #67168

Bryan Gregson
Member

Sick work man!!!……. like the others, I am a big fan.

I look at your pics and always think a few things –> patients, persistence and how much work it must take to capture the images. Excellent work, you have made many fishers stoked.

Thanks for posting the hows and the whys…. interesting stuff and thank you for your insight.

Looking forward to seeing more of you work in the future.

Mar 26, 2009 at 12:19 am #67169

jason jagger
Member

my local tailwater opens April 1,looking forward to that.Hopefully not
too much algae.Some more insight…

Mar 26, 2009 at 2:13 am #67170

Chad Simcox
Member

Welcome to the board Jason, great shots! I don’t know how you do it, personally there is no way I’ve ever been able to put down the fly rod and start shooting. Especially when fish are rising like those shots.
What river opens up April 01? Yampa? The Pan?

http://society6.com/grainfarmer Fly Fishing and Landscape open edition Photography prints.

http://grainfarmer.vsco.co/ iPhone photos
http://instagram.com/chad_simcox Instagram

Mar 26, 2009 at 3:00 pm #67171

Eric DeWitt
Member

Awesome… glad to have another “pro” hanging around here.

Do you have a website of any sort with more of your stuff?
Author

Posts