[Eric DeWitt]

I agree about the mass.

[Eric DeWitt]

Nice looking shots.

[Eric DeWitt]

I’ll second the gallatin, great river, and easy access – just pull over to the side or the road – perfect for a quick fish with limited time.

[Eric DeWitt]

Hey, there isn’t anything wrong with that shot, its pretty good.

[Eric DeWitt]

I did play with the aperture a bit till i got the exposure about right based on the camera preview.

[Eric DeWitt]

It was set to manual focus at infinity, with a 24-105 lens.

[Eric DeWitt]

Shoot, i wish i would have seen those bags from lowe-pro last year.

[Eric DeWitt]

Found some of the nyon coated multi-strand stuff at Michaels, also got some great beads to thread on the wire between the hooks.

[Eric DeWitt]

Any decent art shop will carry the prisma colors too, tim.

[Eric DeWitt]

Thanks for the compliments guys, but seriously, its the lighting that makes these shots, not some great thing that i did.

[Eric DeWitt]

I thought it stayed open for at least a little while, i believe one of the other guys from the shop and also a guide from the PM area went up there to run it.

[Eric DeWitt]

Great pics and narrative.  I’m diggin the underwater shots, thats one thing you don’t see much of.

[Eric DeWitt]

Here ya go, i did this in a couple minutes, it really should be done with a bit more time so not to get so much halo effect, but it gives the general idea.  I think it is successful in seperating the foreground from the background, what do you think?  It is getting a little bit pixely, but that is probalby becuase of the low resolution file.  With a little more time it could be done better.  Best thing is to play around and find what YOU like best!

By the way, all these images look a ton better on my desktop at work, and don’t look nearly as good on my laptop.

[Eric DeWitt]

Here is another before and after example with a bit more relevant material :).

[Eric DeWitt]

Will, taking a quick look, i only see very subtle differences on my monitor, maybe a little bit of color and contrast improvement.  But if they were in a lineup, one would not jump out at me vs. the other.  I would like to see you try and take the catfish one and selectively burn the background to get the angler to really pop out of the image.  I think sometign like that would take a well shot and composed image, and make it great.  If you don’t mind, i can tweak on yours a touch and post it to show what i am talking about.  I also attached another example of what i am talking about.  But, keep in mind, this is just how I like to edit images in post.  I like dark backgrounds, with moody, dramatic skies, and when i can i ususally underexpose to get that.  Everyone has there own look that they like to go for, so please don’t take what i say as criticism.

[Eric DeWitt]

I’ll second tim on that, the whole mousin thing has been a bit of a local’s/guides secret here in michigan until the last couple years.

[Eric DeWitt]

Hey tim, looks like your luck was a bit better than mine!

[Eric DeWitt]

Hey, i’ve heard it too.

[Eric DeWitt]

I’ve got a 24″ dell lcd’s, as well as a couple of 20’s, and as i understand it, both dell and mac use the same supplier for the actual screen.

[Eric DeWitt]

Another kinda cool (and proably totally useless!) thing that article reminded me of is that our eyes “take breaks” when we are moving them, basically not sending an image to the brain when we are moving them from one point of focus to another.

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