Eric DeWitt
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Zach, what do you mean by “uploading everything in smaller file sizes”?
I haven’t upgraded yet, but definatly planning on it.
I thought i remember someone saying that the line-x stuff is smooth as the coats are applied, and its only the last coat that gives it the texture, i’m assuming you could just have them do it without the texture?
If we knew what the planned end use is, it would help to narrow in the feedback…
One thing i would look at is some selective vignetting to isolate the subject from some of the backgrounds.
I can ask a couple of the guys i mentioned in the last post this weekend when i am up there, but it seems to me they have said the past couple years the late november thru the first week or two of december has been the best for steel – on the PM anyways.
I said i wasn’t going to upgrade the 30D until i could double the MP, and now this is going to be close to making me look.
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Might as well give that one to the dog.
Won’t need to tenderize that one before cooking.
Was that a four-ten?I wasn’t referring to using the ladder in the middle of the hunt… but off to the side of the action, with the 400mm lens.
Great shots john, i wish i had the skill to be able to catch birds in flight like that. The last 2 are classic (at least if you’ve done alot bird hunting), i can hear the guide or whoever saying “do you think you can let them get out a little bit further?”
I did shot some pheasant hunting 2 years ago when we were out in south dakota. We were hunting wild birds, so it made it alot harder to get bird in flight shots, but that was my goal. As for advice, I would put the 400 on, and get out in front of the hunters, i think it creates a much more dynamic image when you can see the bird, dog, and the front of the hunter instead of the back. As long as you can reasonably trust the hunters to not take low shots, or let the birds get out to the side a bit, you should be in no real danger.
Also maybe thing about taking along a 6′ step ladder or something. I got on top of a pile of dirt to get up above the grass and it worked great.
http://lucidarc.com/Photoblog/index.php?showimage=114
http://lucidarc.com/Photoblog/index.php?showimage=115
http://lucidarc.com/Photoblog/index.php?showimage=97
http://lucidarc.com/Photoblog/index.php?showimage=100If weight is a really serious issue, a duffle will beat a roller hands down everytime. I weighed a couple rollers, they average around 10 lbs, duffles were 3-4 lbs.
The biggest question is what are all the guys that throw Orvis under the bus for selling dog mattresses going to do now?!?!?!
I won’t rehash alot of the good advice that has been give here, only say that i play/shoot hockey as well, and its probably not your fault.
For most of the photo post work you will be doing, whatever the current version of PS is will last you for at least a few years.
Thanks for the input, i don’t recall ever casting a tipflex rod, all my orvis stuff right now is mid flex or a superfine, so i really don’t know how they feel, but am interested in finding out.
In the digital age we live in, do people still rely on light meters the way they once did, or do they rely on the DSLR for the correct info.?
Thats what the histogram and LCD is for!!
What about a great hatch during some amazing magic hour light?
Haha.. i guess that is the true test!! I guess you can fish with one hand, and hold the camera in the other!
I agree with Chad and Zach, I think its a great concept and a good snapshot at this point, but i would love to see it explored a little further in better lighting conditions. Either first light or last light, or maybe with some big fall clouds rolling thru. Sometimes if the shot isn’t there, you can’t force it, and you just have to wait for the light.
Flip thru some of the coffee table books and look at the pictures… sure, i can go take a picture of someone standing in the Firehole with some steam rolling in the background and it would be OK, but it might take a year for the stars to align on a great shot – the sun setting with just the right amount of clouds to fill the sky with colors, maybe some snow on the peaks, the fall colors in the leaves, a buffalo standing on the bank… etc. And it takes alot of time and dedication to be there when that happens. Thats the part that sucks.
The lighting and timing is what seperates alot of good photos from great ones. Read what ken rockwell has to say about it on his site, there is some pretty good insight there.
I tend to worry less about taking pictures when the light ins’t good, and more about fishing, and the opposite when the light is good.
