Please Read BEFORE you read the repository/montage

[Neal Osborn]

I am going to start a montage post where we can copy and paste any previous threads or advice on fly tying photography.  The topic comes up often enough and the information is fairly disjointed and spread out over months and often hidden in other unrelated posts.

If you have posted anything on the topic of photographing flies or fly tying please go to your post and hit the modify button and then copy the text to paste in to the montage/repository post to follow.  Just make a reply and paste the information.

Zach – I didn’t run this by you first so feel free to modify or delete.  Just thought it would be a good idea to put all related information in one place.

[dusty montgomery]

Neal,
I think this is an awesome idea… a collection of what has been discussed would make getting to the info much easier. Also, I believe a similar thread on macro/shooting flies would be advantageous.

Thank you Neal,
D.

[dusty montgomery]

Sorry Neal,
I should have clicked on the other post first. Well done my friend!
D.

[Neal Osborn]

I would post both topics in the same repository – fly tying and macro fly photography.

[lee church]

Neal don’t know what we’d do w/out ya.

[Neal Osborn]

I originally found this site by searching for fly fishing photography.  I wanted very much to take good pictures of my flies but couldn’t figure it out on my own.  Thanks to the wonderful people here and much (much!) studying and practice I have been able to make a bit of sense out of a very complex process. Over the past year I have focused most of my energy on macro photography and I shy away from commenting on other fields since it is out of my league. These notes are in no way professional advice, rather an attempt to give something back.  

Thanks to all the pros here that have offered great foundation advice on photographing flies.  

I look forward to seeing other people’s setups, comments and pictures on this topic of fly photography.

[Mike McKeown]

I originally found this site by searching for fly fishing photography.  I wanted very much to take good pictures of my flies but couldn’t figure it out on my own.  Thanks to the wonderful people here and much (much!) studying and practice I have been able to make a bit of sense out of a very complex process. Over the past year I have focused most of my energy on macro photography and I shy away from commenting on other fields since it is out of my league. These notes are in no way professional advice, rather an attempt to give something back.  

Thanks to all the pros here that have offered great foundation advice on photographing flies.  

I look forward to seeing other people’s setups, comments and pictures on this topic of fly photography.  Still so much to learn.

Can’t remember how I bumped into this site… oh wait, I was searching for fly casting videos, before YouTube became full of them… I remember thinking, these videos are pretty poor, but far better than the other stuff I had found, and that this site looks a little different and interesting… Must have been when there were only 4 or 5 podcasts up.
I just read the board here and there, but started realizing the importance of the info that the members posted. I can still thinking that the posts were long winded and a waste of time, “Hell, I can’t read all of that, it’s just drivel…” then I read all of that and it hit me how poor the other forums information was.

So, I stand with you Neal, I have learnt more from this place than almost anywhere else…

[glow=yellow,2,300]Let’s get that tread sorted…[/glow]

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