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Tom Morgan makes a 3 piece 4 weight that I have cast. Its a sweet rod.
Check it out at troutrods.com I talked to Tom a few years ago he is a really nice guy. He is ill but they are building some beautiful rods.Scott it would look like that GPS feature would be great for tracking where you catch all the big ones worthy of a shot! If it were only waterproof!
Early on in my career as a photographer I had a really good mentor his name was Fred Picker. Fred had a way of summing things up and getting right to the heart of a issue. He once said “if I heard Ansel Adams was making prints wearing hip waders I’d give it a try”. I miss Fred but there are many stellar photographer using either brand and you can study there work and get a feel for how one brand of camera looks compared to another. If a exceptional photographer working in a area changes gear and he’s not on the dole from the manufacturer I would check out why they switched. You really are kind of splitting hairs now between Nikon and Canon for a small format camera now though.
I shoot Nikon but its the person behind the camera that really matters.
Nikon is kicking ass and taking names right now and people are switching.
Scott Bourne of the This Week In Photography Podcast is a really good bird photographer and he shot Canon for 16 years and he switched over to the Nikon D3 System. You might want to check out the podcasts from the past few weeks to hear what they have to say about it.I use a D2xs but I would go full frame now and intend to in the future. I think the DX format is going to fade. Having bigger pixels is better!
I wouldn’t miss a shot fussing with a Macbeth card or Expo Disc but if there is time I use them in the field for the first shot. You can save a lot of presets in camera for different conditions but in practice I have never done it.
Every setup I do in studio starts with a parameter setting of the Macbeth card in my capture program and I use those setting for all the shots under them same lighting. It save a ton of time in post.
AWB can bounce around but under mixed lighting its amazing. If you can get in the habit of doing it shoot a Macbeth colorchecker when you begin shooting a session and when the lighting changes shoot it again. You can batch apply settings to groups of files shot under similar conditions. They make a mini colorchecker which is handy. Quite a few people use ExpoDisc and get good results too.
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http://www.expodisc.com/tips/Its going to have to be something really special for me to part with any money! The economy has gone to hell!!! I have to think twice about driving to the river.
I’ve been a Nikon guy for a long time and their current offerings meaning to D300 and D3 are probably the best action cameras going right now. I think the D300 is a better camera than the D2xs which is what I use now. I don’t know much about to new D700. I use the 17-55 2.8 and 70-200 2.8 with the D2xs and they are great lenses but expensive. I would like to get my hands on the new 200 2.8 but once again its really expensive too. You have a opportunity to rethink your kit which I guess is the silver lining to a otherwise bad situation.
Sometime I’ll vary the degree of polarization, crank it for the full effect and then back off a bit. You can minmize unwanted contrast. Uneven skies with wide angle lenses can be a problem too. Some polarized images look kind of dead when all the highlights are reduced by polarization. The filter factor for a polarizer is 2.3 to 2.8 stops increase in exposure according to how its positioned… Thank you B+W.
Rio Fluoro works for me I know a guide that swears by it! A bit pricey though. The Powerflex is really good too. When I tie my own leaders I use Maxima except for the tippet. I once heard Mike Lawson from Henry’s fork Angler say he cut the tippet off his new knotless leaders and tied on fresh tippet because he didn’t trust them. A guy with as much experience as him catching big fish makes you wonder if he knows something we don’t!
You don’t have to own one, rental works! A lot of high end gear that individuals own sits around idle a lot of the time!
I fish for fun and shoot for money! When you show up with a 35 style DSLR some people think they could do what you are doing if they had the latest Canon or Nikon. When I show up with a Medium or large format digital outfit, lighting,laptop etc it provides a real contrast from the rest of the pack! The image quality is much better as well which further distinguishes you work. If you shoot action you don’t have much of a choice but to use a 35 style camera but you are competing with a larger group of shooters.
I Love the Hasselblad there is nothing like it! I had a 500c that I used for 20 years and its still in use at the studio where I was working. Compare that to the new Nikon or Canon or whatever that comes out every 3 months.
I believe if you shoot raw plus jpeg your post time will be cut down because whatever software your using will not have to create a jpeg for the preview. I would stay away from srgb because it is a much smaller color space than Adobe RGB. You want all the color info you can get for you final edit. I use srgb only for web images.
