Shooting Fly casting photo’s

[olle bulder]

Hi guys

For a website i’m making i need to shoot some educational flycasting photo’s. Now i’ve heard that red lines work best so i’m looking for one but it looks like they are not sold a lot.

Anyone got some experience with this and has got some advice on this subject.

Thanks
Olle

[Zach Matthews]

Olle –

If you’ll run a search with your question here, I am pretty sure there’s a thread where we’ve discussed this extensively before.

[olle bulder]

I tried a forum search but nothing came up. I searched for “casting pictures”, “casting photo” an so on. So if you have a link or a keyword that will come up with some matches i would be greatly helped.

[John Bennett]

Two recent samples Ole.

Dark backgrounds are the most important thing, thy contrast the line
This is backlit

backlit, somewhat side

In both cases it’s no coincidence that the BG is darker/in shadow

[Steve K.]

Olle,

Try this:

http://www.itinerantangler.com/cgi-bin/board/YaBB.pl?num=1220827963/10#10

[mike ormsby]

Steve K thanks for link — very helpful

[olle bulder]

Thanks Steve that’s exactly what i was looking for. A search for “Making a fly fly line pop!” is the one keyphrase i did not use 🙂

John also thanks for the examples.

[Mike McKeown]

One of my attempts…

[Zach Matthews]

Cool shot, Mike.

Zach

[olle bulder]

Nice.

[txbluegill]

You might try Bass Pro for the line.

[Tim Schulz]

Perhaps a glow-in-the-dark flyline would help?

This is an excellent line and is very useful for fishing the Hex hatch, or for other night-time fishing.

[Eric DeWitt]

I have a couple of the luma-lux lines, and use them for exactly that!

[John Bennett]

Oh, man the fun you could have with that 🙂

Think firelies flying across a meadow

[lisa meritt a.k.a pixelrod]

A guide/writer wanted me to take a few photos of his D-loops, this was with a Nikon 70-200 2.8…still trying to freeze all the line, but I think the motion imparted is kind of important too!

[Morsie]

Consider doing instructional images at night………

But always consider your background.

Morsie 😉

[olle bulder]

That second one is great Morsie, think i’ll have a try on shooting in the dark also. My fishing mate just bought a wulf line wich is very bright orange and will give a nice light reflection i think.

[Morsie]

Make sure you get good batteries in your flash unit and that they’re fully juiced up. You’ll find it’ll fire on full every second cast. I use Eneloop batteries and a Sanyo charger. It takes 24 hours to fully charge a set but they last a long time and they don’t loose juice if they’re just left to sit.

Morsie

[John Bennett]

Its probably 80% background, 10% line, 10% light.

[Morsie]

John, I’d rate line choice MUCH higher than that and would put the BG and the line on an equal footing – they have to be be contrasting colours, orange against green yellow against blue etc. Orange does stand out against most things You can have the best dark BG with controlled light but if the the line doesn’t pop you have nothing.

Morsie

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