Eric DeWitt
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Nice shots john, i especially like the first one with the orange sky in the background.
Do you use any of the scentlok type products with that activated carbon? I use the scentblocker baselayers and i like them alot. They aren’t going to stop all your scent, but will cut it down when used properly. A scentlok head mask will do wonders too – i read somewhere 90% of your odor comes from your mouth and hair? I was going to reply to your other post a few days back. Maybe your already caught on to most of this stuff, but i’ll post some of my tips for you here…
1. Make sure your showering with no-scent soap/shampoo before going out. This is probalby the biggest favor you can do for yourself, it will make a huge difference in not getting winded.
2. Wash all your camo clothes/layers in one of the hunter type detergents, and then keep them in a rubbermaid tub. If you can find them, HS Scents makes “fresh earth” dryer sheets. throw a few of those in there. Also, either hang your clothes outside to dry, or dry them with those dryer sheets. Another option is to take some pine boughs, leaves, etc., and put them in the tub, after a day or two you will smell like a x-mas tree. Don’t get dressed with these clothes until you are in the field. I keep a spare piece of carpet in the truck and stand on that while i change.
3. If your frequenting the same area, the rubber knee boots will go along way towards reducing the amount fo scent you are leaving on the ground.
4. Is baiting legal in your area? I don’t bait for hunting, but i would pulll out all the stops for taking photos. A 5 gallon bucket of corn will go along ways.
FYI, Most of the guys you are seeing on the cover of Deer and Deer Hunting and other similar magazines are are taking photos of deer inside enclosures. Charlie Alsheimer has basically conditioned the deer inside his fence to his presenece, and they will allow him to walk within feet of them. And then these guys use food to get the deer in the right spot (background/foreground/lighting) for those pheonomenal pics you see on the covers. So, your off to a great start accomplishing this stuff in the wild.
Heres my deer photo… got him opening day of bow season!
Here’s one i can throw in the mix, if its not to late. I’ve got some more from this series on the computer at home.
I haven’t downloaded and tested this yet, but i read on the adobe camera raw site this weekend that there are new specific camera profiles you can download, and then select in the “camera calibration” panel under the devolop module.
Wow, great thread, i feel like i am a little late to the party.
I have to say, i am with zach on this one, i shoot in sRGB, process in it, and print in it (i also shoot 90% of my images in jpeg, but thats another story).
I think the second set of images definalty looks better than the first. The other advice that pops into my head reading this, is to forget trying to make it look exactly right, just make it look good – if that makes sense?
heres a couple shots and a gallery froma pheasant hunt i was on with lots of orange.. in the gallery a few were edited, most are directly out of camera. The ones i edited for keepers, i know one of the main changes i made was warming them up quite a bit.
http://lucidarc.com/photo/tailfeathers06/index.html
I think the text and borders is working ok, although the changes others suggested wouldn’t hurt. I am partial to the darker backgrounds, maybe its the designer in me that always likes black and grey, but i do think its a bit easier on the eyes than the white, especially when reading in lower light levels.
The 10-22 may not be considered a low light lens, but most cetainly wouldn’t consider a 28mm, or even a 16-35 on a crop body to be very wide.
I’m not saying you can lay out 80’ers with a 6wt line on a 3 wt helios, but casting out to 35′ or so, where i would guess 90% of peoples fishing happens, it fished really well – especially roll casting which you have to do alot of on michigan rivers, and shot line like a rifle.
I know what you mean zach.. so are you reimporting all your images manually to do that, or is it an option when exporting/importing a catalog? I experimented a little bit with that when i was getting started with LR (the whole thing was a bit fuzzy at the time to me) and at the higher settings didn’t seem to slow things down much, but as the library size builds, i do worry about it.
Do you see a difference in image quality when looking at images in the “fit” view then? I;m assuming that when you go to 1:1 view it is still rendering it at that time?
Jon, so you give the nix software a thumbs up? I’ve looked at the nix stuff as well as couple other packages a few times (i will post some links i have saved at the office for people to check out tomorrow), but never worked up the nerve to take the plunge on it. I always really like the examples they show. Can you post the original of your image for comparison?
