Long day. lots of pics
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Went fishing with a friend on Thrusday. We hit the “local” for Browns. Out the door at 4:00am, home just before 10:00pm. It marked my first full day loaded with both fly and photo gear. After 19hrs, 12 of them on the water I was bagged. I’m just now getting to the point where I feel Im modeerately recovered :).
As for the day its going to be a hard day to beat anytime soon.Heres some of the 300 pictures from the day. 😉
Crane
Caddis
??Grey Fox??
Heres another
My friend Darrin
Onto the Browns
Feel free to add any feedback. I’m still trying to learn and improve and I haven’t been shooting fish or macro very long.
Nice shots John,
My favorite is the first of the browns in the water, it’s got great feel..
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
Macros are great John – pin sharp. The mayfly’s a little knocked around, always a problem when trying to get them to hold still for long enough. One trick I have is to wet your fingers with a little saliva and then stick their wings together, that’ll stop them for a minute or so and won’t damage their legs.
Personally, for “man holding fish shots” I really like to see a curve in the back of the fish so its arched, and always aim to get the head a little more towards the camera. A good “fish wrangler” is worth their weight in flies. I fish with a few guys I’ve trained really well!!! This is only a personal preference. The colours are great.
Morsie
Thanks Morsie.
That fly tip will pay off huge as I’ve been struggling with that issue. It doesn’t take hardly any pressue to damage their wings and with macro lenses its pretty obvious. Of coarse if your super careful, well good luck shooting a flying Mayfly with razor thin DoF 🙂Pleasure John, I’m also very interested in anyone else’s tips for handling and posing insects. I capture and refrigerate them whenever I can then as they warm up and come back to life you get a good minute, then back in the fridge. I’ve always wanted to photograph a scorpion, such wild and wonderful looking creatures. About a month or so ago I was in the desert in Western Australia and a friend brought me a scorpion. It was night so I put it in the fridge for the morning but the thing died, I guess the fridge was too cold.
This is what I meand by arched back and head to the camera. You have to direct you “wrangler”, I’m always giving instructions – “higher lower, roll its back over to me” – that’s the commonest one, trying to avoid the shot of a fish’s belly.
Morsie
Hey, i saw this earlier this week and haven’t had time to respond till now, and i wanted to get a responce back since people have been real good about critting my work.
Thanks for the feedback Eric, very helpful and something to keep in mind next time I’m out with company.
Re the macro work.
Funny, the harsh light never factored into my mind. You can tell by the shodows the shots were mid day. A time of day when shooting any other subjectsThe easiest solution might be to just wait for the cloudy days, that is when i seem to get the best shots.
Another solution would be a small scrim.
You can get small round ones that fold up small and just pop it out to make your own shade.
They’re also much cheaper than flash.We have to use them here for no fishing work as the sun is very strong and no amount of fill flash will give you a natural looking shot.
The best ones cut the light about 50% so you might need to use ISO 200 to get your speed back up if you use longer macro lenses.www.dsaphoto.com
A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
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