Henry Gilbey
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Mark – I was expecting the place to be horribly expensive, but as you say, things seemed to be fairly cheap. The guy who was helping us out was really upbeat about life, but then he is more often than not working with foreign clients coming in for the fishing………
This same guy is the person who has had sea trout (sea run browns) of 21, 22, and 23lbs from a river in Iceland – got to see me some of them !!
Very cool, I so want to see these redfish.
Why do weddings always come up when the fishing is going to fire ? Happened to me last weekend……….
Eric – apologies, just checked……. 4x 1TB drives in my Drobo gives me roughly 2.7TB of actual storage. I think the rest is used for backup etc.
Been thinking the same things myself – I run two PCs here, one for “regular” work, and one for all things photography. Relatively happy with my backing up solutions at the moment….running XP, will not go near Vista.
But I keep thinking about changing the photography PC over to a Mac – how hard would it be to use a Mac and a PC together if that makes sense ? My brothers make feature films and would never dream of using a PC, in fact all book and magazine people I have ever worked with run Macs. Makes sense to perhaps run all photo processing here on a MAC, or not ?
Eric – I have been using a Drobo for a while now, with 4 x 1TB dirves in there, giving me roughly 2TB of available storage. Good machine, seems to work fine, but it only works via USB2 with my PC, and not with Firewire 800 as advertised, at least not on my machine (and I have a Firewire 800 card in one of them – roll on USB3). Not a perfect machine if that makes sense, very occasionally Drobo will sort of switch itself off and you have to manually restart it etc. – but cross figners touch wood it is keeping my data safe. Easy to remove and swap drives etc, pretty cheap for huge storage.
But then of course I run backups off the Drobo to other, single 1TB drives – I had to give up on DVDs a while back, not great for loads and loads of RAW files, plus I had some fail on me over time. Perhaps when recordable Blu-Ray becomes really cheap and usable this will be a good way to have another back up solution ?
On the road – ultra-portable laptop, back up hard drive etc, copy to both.
In the end, if my multiple back ups all decide to blow up at the same time, it’s time to drop out and go fishing !!
Apart from the insane trout fishing, they are having a seriously good year on the (Atlantic) salmon front – lots of rivers are stuffed full of small-medium fish, but a few of the rivers are known for throwing up bigger fish……..
Gotta go back.
Some wise old words above (and some awesome shots) – the CP is about the most useful filter there is for fishing related photography I reckon. Water and clouds, big blue skies etc.
Could not imagine shooting on say the flats without one, especially as the sun gets really high and harsh and then lights up the sand flats.
And the Singh Ray LB circular polarizer is one truly outstanding bit of kit. Like John, mine is clamped on front my lens more often than not.
I’m not quite sure how to gauge “expensive” – the trout fishing I know tends to work out cheaper than the salmon fishing, and getting to Iceland is pretty straight forward, from the UK anyway. I believe it is fairly easy from the US as well……..
I would hazard a guess that this year especially there are some deals around.
Speak to the guys I went with if it would help http://www.aardvarkmcleod.com – they do Iceland big time. I will be going back.
Nice one – from my own experience I have always found that magazines etc. prefer “packages” – word and photos together from which they can create a feature or whatever. When I started working in fishing, I worked out very quickly that here in the UK I was never going to make a living if I wrote or photographed only – had to do both and it sort of went on from there.
David has got it right – Photoshop gives you kind of three in one if that makes sense………Photoshop for all that kind of thing, Bridge for sorting/viewing, and then Adobe Camera RAW within Bridge for your RAW processing. Presuming you are shooting RAW that is.
But Lightroom also does a hell of a lot – just depends on whether you can live with the programme insisting on creating it’s own database of your images.
A good “super wide” lens is going to cost, unless you can pick up a good one second hand. Really worth it though for shooting fishing, indeed wide lenses tend to be the most used ones in my camera bags.
Thanks so much for the kind comments – what a place, and we lucked out with the weather big time. But I am always prepared to shoot virtually whatever the weather does. Every piece of water seems to have its own character – they are having a huge run of salmon this year, saw loads of them in the clear waters.
Have not experienced 24hr daylight for a couple of years, forgotten how strange it is. The first three photos were taken at around 10 or 11pm – after a fairly grey flat day, the light suddenly started firing closer to midnight. Kind of messes with your head a bit.
Going to try and go back next year, so much more to do…….
Here are a couple more photos :
I also found out that there is some outstanding sea trout fishing over there (do you guys call them sea run browns ?) – fish over 20lbs taken every year.
A load of photos from the trip are here (salmon and trout) :
http://www.henry-gilbey.com/fishing_pictures/iceland_salmon_and_trout_fishing.html
John – could not agree more, I have always presumed that Adobe killed off RawShooter because it was a threat. I do like various Adobe products, but the speed of ACR or Lightroom for example can still not touch how fast RawShooter was.
Olle,
Thanks so much for that, really kind of you to say so – I have a thing about (sea) bass fishing and photographig, I love everything about it – when it goes off photos wise I reckon (sea) bass fishing can look staggeringly good. I have a vast and ever growing library of bass fishing material, can’t get enough of it !!
You guys have some good bass fishing over there I believe ? I keep hearing reports of some nice fish…….
Anyway, better start charging batteries and packing camera gear up, off to Iceland tomorrow to photograph a bit of salmon fishing, but mainly some potentially awesome wild brown trout fishing – fish to over 10lbs were taken the other day, so it could be mildly fantastic if things go our way………..bring it on as they say. Will put stuff up on my blog if we get internet connections.
Darryl,
Photo Mechanic is a great programme, but it is purely for editing purposes – it can not process RAW files like ACR does.
The way I see it at the moment is that Adobe Camera RAW gives me the “look” I am after, exactly the same RAW processing engine as Lightroom they say, but without all the extra database nightmare etc.
How about the 2nd Lions test yesterday ? What a game………..heartbroken !!
Darryl,
I used to love working with RawShooter, nothing I have seen since has ever come close to the speed of it……..and like you I was gutted when Adobe bought them out and we lost future camera support. So yes, had to stop using RawShooter when I upgraded from 1D MK11 cameras to the 1D MK111 ones.
Tried Lightroom straight away, I really like the RAW processing “look”, but I can’t stand the fact that it tries to force me to create a database when I have already got all my images catalogued and keyworded in a way that has worked well for me for years now…..plus the slow speed of Lightroom put me off. Seems that PCs do not like a programme accessing and creating huge databases all the time.
I use Photo Mechanic as my editing software – keywording, editing shoots, viewing images, renaming, sorting etc. (RAW and JPEGs etc.).
Tried Bibble for a while as a RAW processor, a fairly good programme, but very “buggy”, would keep crashing with large folders of images etc, drove me mad eventually.
Have been with Adobe Camera RAW for a while now – I keep reading that is is not designed to be used for large numbers of images, but it works just fine for me – taking into account that I have done my editing etc. in the far faster Photo Mechanic. ACR I reckon is very good – not as fast as the “old” RawShooter, but seems to be great at RAW processing. Sharpening etc. done in Photoshop/NIK software.
And ACR uses a good old fashioned folder tree which I like a lot because I have a system that works just fine here.
David – us Brits have no choice but to hold on to the memories of November 2003……too long ago !!
Al – thank you. Sounds like it must have been some pix from Gabon when we were after threadfin, cubera snapper and jacks in the surf out there. Wild place, awesome fishing, scary potential. James nailed a nice threadfin off the beach on a double handed fly rod, never heard of that before off an African shore………
Thanks Zach, you guys run a fantastic site here. I love any excuse to talk fishing and photography !!
David – nice one about the rugby, watched the highlights of the match last night in fact, fantastic game, have to admire the French they way they turn NZ over from time to time. Somewhat better than my beloved England rugby team currently, best not go there, too sad !! Roll on the Lions v South Africa though….
I love FlyLife, had a few features with them, not loads – tigerfish, yellowfish, Seychelles GTs and milkfish I think, bones from Los Roques from memory, plus the two covers below. I keep in touch with Brad Harris from time to time, I really like his photo book on trout fishing in Tasmania. Not sure who shot the current FlyLife cover of that monster brown, but it is a stunner.
