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Well, again, Aaron, you should not cut something just because someone else would. Judge everything on its total merit count to you. If it was the loch ness monster, I could stand the photo being slightly out of focus ;).
I really liked the first gallery in your second post, BTW. You have a good eye.
Aaron, you are a brave person. 🙂
I’ll give you my thoughts, but please understand I’m not the best judge of what you want to accomplish. I’m just looking at them from my own tastes.
1) “Hiking In” is an interesting shot with the lighting and the angle, but I can see nothing but a cemetary in it. It strongly conveys that image to me and no matter what you title it, I will always see headstones on a moon lit night. The one rock in the center of the picture is the focal point, and it looks like a headstone to me. You may have been going after that graveyard look, if so you succeeded. ;D
2) “Second Look” – that’s a great title cause it took me several looks before I saw what you were trying to capture. As an abstract scene, I like it, although can’t help but feel it would be lost on a lot of folks. I can appreciate the experimentation it must have taken, as you noted, to get that look. I counted at least 14 fish by the way. Awesome.
3) “Toad” – aptly named! What a fatty. I am not distracted by the water as much as the funny angle of the tail finning which makes it look malformed–not that a fish that size isn’t malformed already! On an opportunity like that I would be shooting from as many angles, perhaps bracketing, as fast as I could before I moved him out of there. I was wondering about a lower angle and trying to put some space between it and its shadow to emphasize the body shape even more. Definite be shooting as he starts to move away–you might get a better view of the tail fin or shadow.
4) “Torpedo” – If it were me, I would toss it. My instinct is to delete photos which are not flattering to the subject or technically good. Fish is not in focus and the pose makes it look deformed. Fish was a distraction, not the water. 🙂 Focus on this photo I would think would need to be the nose of the fish. looks like you might have had some camera shake going on or holding with one hand. I also find it extremely difficult to make a good fish photo if the mouth is half way in/half way out of the water. Either submerse the whole mouth or lift the whole mouth out of the water.
One of the hardest things for me has been to learn to use the delete button. Here’s two of my criteria:
1) If the critical parts of the subject are out of focus – trash it (exception – it might be salvagable as a reduced size image in a montage or background for web use, of if part of the subject is in focus and can be used for a color or pattern image for some purpose). It takes practice to judge whether something is in focus or not. Make a decision based on how the photo looks at 100% on a large display (20 inch). I can never tell well on my laptop display.
2) If the subject is in an unflattering position – trash it. Generally, you want to present your subject in a flattering pose.
No expert here, but just some of my thoughts. I look forward to seeing more of your photos!
Scott
Bob, this is great news. Our Tuesday evening Bible study group has been praying for you. They will be interested in the update.
Great picture. The smile says it all.
Peace and blessings,
Scott
Michael:
We had a big rain event this weekend and all the White River reservoir levels are rising significantly. It always takes a while afterwards to see what that will mean for the generation pattern. It depends on inflow, river stage downriver, and the other lake levels. We also have rain chances again the last half of this week. Norfork should keep rising into the flood pool a bit, which may mean we will have some flood releases just in time for a shad kill about the time you will be here. Shad should be starting to die in the lake as we speak, and all we need is some consistent heavy generation to pull them through.
On the downside, the number of rainbows in the catch and release area is way down since AGFC has not been stocking in the middle of the river after McClellans closed. They are working on trying to get access for the stocking truck. But as of last October when the electrofishing sampling was done, the number of rainbows was down significantly in the middle of the tailwater.
Anyway, be sure to have some shad patterns ready when you come. If the shad are alive when coming through, swing some zonkers or other white patterns on a sink tip. If they are dead, you will have to fish more of a white jig deep under an indicator.
Hope this helps,
ScottMan, Zach. You ought to be happy with those shots! Awesome.
Thanks for the details and to everyone for their ideas. I’ve learned a bunch.
if your using TTL (+FEC) or increasing the flash power with the flashes on manual
So you did JB.! There’s a lot of info crammed into these posts.
Hey Zach. This has been a great thread. I especially benefitted from John P’s comments.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned flash exposure compensation yet. I did some test shots tonight and found I had to set FE to +2 on the flash in order to get the background approaching anywhere near the white I wanted.
If this is an option for you on your nikon flashes, you might try it.
Here’s my samples.
Cardboard and tissue paper lightbox
Manual f/11 @1/250 sec, 100 ISO equivalent
580EX II flash as master (+2 exposure compensation) for top lighting through paper
420EX flash as slave with additional diffuser for side lighting through paperI’ve been using a Garmin GPS Map 76CS plus for two or three years now. It’s a marine unit, floats, color screen, and auto routing(with the additional road maps downloaded). I use it in my truck and on the rivers.
I’ll agree that the whole map buying, limited unlocking, and multiple formats for maps really suck.
At the same time, garmin units are the most versatile, user friendly, and feature rich gps units around.
Drifter, the key to running rivers is to make your routes at home. Then your river routes will be point to point, straight lines down the river. So your mileage will be close, as well as ETA readouts.
Anytime the managing agencies give the proper flows.
All the tailwaters down this way are open year round and fish fairly good year round.
Who’d you buy the boat from if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m not sure how far your looking to travel, but we have a ton of great tailwaters here in the southeast. Once you get down around KY, you’ll start seeing some big lakes on your maps, and most of the larger lakes have a great tailwater running out of them.
TN is loaded with fantastic tailwaters, and there are a few good ones in GA and NC as well.
Like I said, not sure of your travel allowance but you might consider the southeast, as our weather will get nice here in a few weeks and it will seem like spring well before spring actually hits.
