Eric DeWitt
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I’ll throw another comparison out there out of the hunting world… Like every other industry, the marketing hype is that lighter is better.
Great fishing for sure… almost makes me want to go up north this weekend and chase steelhead, instead of Iowa to chase big bucks.
The shots look great matt, i see you changed the home page away from the graphic and to a flash image.. my one suggestion would be to make the flash a link, i wanted to click on the flash to goto the gallery, but i had to go up and use the links at the top.
While i kinda agreed about the splash page, i was diggin’ the artwork you had there.
I’ve been fishing on the michigan side of lake michigan for a quite some time now, and i haven’t heard of any river that has fishable run of browns.
Maxima ultagreen is a religion here in Michigan, 6-8lb typically for steelhead and salmon leaders (not tapered), and 10-15 lb for trout streamers.
I can tell you a little bit about getting hats done… They can typically turn any jpeg or vector type file into embroidery.
i had to make a similar decision a while back with the 24-70/2.8 and the 24-105/4 IS, i ended up picking the IS and i wouldn’t go back.
I have absolutely no sympathy for any of you out there in montana. 🙂 Its almost 80 here in michigan right now too.
And since it seems your into red meat… check out Buck’s T4 Lodge in the Big Sky area if you get close.
Thanks for the insight guys, i too would have like to crop some of the shots a bit differently. The problem is that the vehicle would come to a stop, and you kinda would get what you get. You try and stop at a good place, or creep forward, but most of the time the animals wouldn’t stick around long enough, or there wasn’t another shot that was more open. I guess that is the reality of shooting wildlife, and makes me respect the guys that do this stuff for a living even more – it has to be really tough to fill a book with good shots. Maybe in a national park where the animals are more tolerant of vehicles, it would be easier?
Carter, the ones with the sun in the background was a combination of lucky timing with the sunrise, and a few trial and errors to get the exposure right. I think i ended up with the flash set at 0 EV, and the camera (background) -1 or more. If i would have left the camera at 0, it would have been blown out for sure. On most of those, i did a few test shots, got it how i wanted, then had to hand the camera off for the final shot.
The kids were fun to shoot, but quite shy, and i was almost out of my candy supply by the time we stopped by this village, so i was having a hard time keeping them in range, haha.
These weren’t shot for a specific magazine, but i may submit them to a few and see if they go somewhere when i have a spare moment or two.
Richard and Seafood, i’m not here to start any arguments and everybody is entitled to their opinions, but i do find it mildly hypocritical and a bit disappointing that guys who support the sport of fishing, where fish die for sport – and i don’t care what people say, even the best catch and release guys still kill a percentage of the fish they release – but don’t support ethical and legal hunting? Guys, we would all be better off if fishermen/hunters/outdoorsmen stuck together on these kinds of issues because the activist groups don’t care which one they take away as long as they are taking something away.
There was a good discusion about these types of issues in this thread:
http://www.itinerantangler.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1188512381
Feel free to read about how our hunting was conducted, and how hunting these animals actually helps support and protect them from overharvest, poaching, etc.
I am most impressed with guys who dont own “the hottest gear” but show up on the stream with the basics of what they need and go out there and fish circles around the rest of us with $2000 worth of labels waving around in the air. Kudos to those of you who could care less about the name on the gear.
I’ll second that… that almost made me laugh thinking about some of the cats i’ve seen on the river like that.
Its funny, but i used to poo-pah the cabelas name brand gear, until i was actually at the store and checked it out- that stuff is pretty freakin good, and its alot cheaper than Browning, Rocky, North Face, or whoever they decided to copy.
I’ve gone back and forth, but mostly i just shoot jpeg’s. I agree with most here that ultimatly you can get a better image using RAW with some work, but using the histograms, and previews, i think i can get within about 95% of the RAW file output, and it takes me alot less time because i don’t ahve to do all the post processing – assuming i take a little bit of extra time and get the shot right in the camera the first time. All the RAW editing in the world won’t make up for poor lighting conditions, or not being there to get the shot because you are stuck behind a box doing post! I have made 20×30″ prints from 6 mp jpegs, and unless you look at the print from 6″ away, people love them. Learn how to use the different settings in the camera (WB, saturation, sharpness, contrast) to get the results you want when you pull the trigger, and i thnk you will become a stronger photographer.
Programs like lightroom and aperture which allow for editing of RAW files, and also provide alot of other great tools certainly make it alot easier to work with RAW’s though, so i will keep experimenting. But they also allow for lossless editing of jpegs which is really cool too. Ughhh..
Good insight, carter, i haven’t really looked into it as far as disease is concerned, more that idea of fair chase. We discussed the SA lion hunts quite a bit, and was told it has become quite an industry with full on breeding operations etc. I was also told by the owner of the safari company that we hunted with that if you want to hunt wild lion or elephant, do it in the next 2-3 yrs, because its days are numbered, FWIW.
The only real restriction that i know of for hunting leopards is that it has to be a male. That was the source of some serious stress as the PH tried to look for the family jewels on a cat at 60 yds. In national parks you can’t shoot tham at night with a light, but on privately owned land that doesn’t apply.
Alot more of the high fenced hunting is taking place over there now. you can actually pick out a lion on video, and schedule when you are going to shoot it. At some levels i have problems with that kind of thing, but at other levels, as long as the person buying the lion understands the situation, he can spend his money how ever he wants. The problem i do have is when that guy scoff’s at my dad’s lion because it doesnt’ have nearly as good as mane or something. Well, it took my dad 2 trips to africa and over 30 days of hunting to get it. It certainly wasn’t bought with just money, alot of sweat and work went into it too.
Carter also hints at another reality which i didn’t talk about. In national parks, hunters are typically accompanied by armed game scouts (kinda like our DNR) with a shoot on sight order for poachers, particarly those that are after ivory. And the poachers shoot back. This is rare, but it does happen.
Joel and Will, i would be happy to try and explain a little bit about what happens out there, and try and give a little bit of insight into what motivates me, personally, as a hunter.
