Eric DeWitt
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Thanks guys. Its a cool river, thats for sure. It looks so good in may and june, with all the fresh new leaves and grasses coming up. I wish i could spend more time up there this time of year.
The boat is actually a cedar strip power drifter, built in michigan. Its owned by a local guide, Walt Grau. Hell of a guy, been fishing with him for over 15 years, and I don’t know anyone who is more innovative, passionate, and dedicated to the sport. (Zach, if your reading this, he would be a great podcast!) I’m sure i have some more pics of the boat on my computer at work. Its the only drift boat i’ve been in that i’ve been able to comfortably stand and fish, without the need for leg braces.
Wow, another great opportunity brought to us by Zach and Phil!
The hardest part is picking just 3, especially when thinking “magazine” and not just “cool photo.”
Tim and Mike… i was already planning on heading up this weekend to the cottage, and i just “suggested” to my wife saturday would be a great day to go do some shopping in traverse city.
So i was out of town yesterday, and missed this when it was posted then, and i am revisiting it again at home tonight, but man, Matt, you have literally just raised the bar so much higher with these shots, that i don’t think i even need to take a camera with me fishing, again, ever.
Helluva trip, and flash or no flash, damn good pictures that do a great job capturing the emotion (unlike the boring shots of the lake michigan shoreline i saw for sale in the restaurant last night).
I read in an article somewhere that the best photographers sometimes have to wait minutes, hours, days, or even years for the perfect light for a perfect shot.
To me, the origanal post by Alan sounded like he might be trying to provoke a response when i first read it?
Makes perfect sense zach! Thats why i’m an architect and not a famous fly fishing writer i guess! ;D
Thanks again.
David, i bet it would fit in alot more in Australia than it does here.
Thanks for the great and fast feedback. The web is a beautiful thing. The consensus among a couple of my architect buddies has been #2, with the text location (right justified) of #1.
I agree that #3 would be the traditional approach, and is a bit expected. The angles and having the person in the first shot seems to really make it unique compared to what you would typically see in a publication like this.
The logo has already been fixed! but thanks for pointing that out zach!
The other big yank on this thing is the use of the word “modern”. People in our are historically really shy away from modern styling in architecture, preferring the known and comfortable. Typically Shinge or Cottage style architecure: Cedar shakes, field stone, lots of trim, etc. The Pottery Barn kind of thing. All of the response to this project has been “wow, we never knew modern could be like this, i love it”, so i need to be careful to not turn off/scare away the fence sitters before they even get in the door.
Instead of “modern done different” maybe its “architecture done different” or something like that.
And i do see the idea of “don’t” being negative. I’ll have to think about that.
Here’s where its at now:
P.S. I love shooting in the last 10 minutes of light, when its almost dark, its just to bad you have to lug a tripod around to do it. All the colors in the shot are as is, direct our of camera. But they do need to be converted to CMYK, where most of the blue, and part of the orange are out of Gamut, their intensity drops by quite a bit when converted. Try it in photoshop and you’ll see. Anyone have any advice/experience with that?
