john michael white
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John,
Nice pics of those bucks.
If you aren’t doing this already, get a set of antlers, or fake antlers made for rattling, and use those to simulate two bucks fighting over a doe. Rattling antlers will call in all the big boys in the area, and at the time they are rutting, they will litterally come running at full bore. I also use a grunt call, but the antlers have given me the best results, even without the grunt call. This is a highly successful technique used here in Texas, and I am sure you have seen it on hunting shows and used elsewhere. It really does work.
Shanon, I noticed you’re in Denton. I was born and raised in Denton until I went off to college. Yes, the Guad is running exremely low right now…about 56 cfs.
Matt, that would be cool to hook up sometime to fish and get some photos on the Guad.
Olle, good eye on the horizon being slightly off. I have adjusted the horizons and have reposted them on my website and below. For some reason, the larger links won’t update here on IA.
Update: It looks like the larger picks above in the first link finally updated.
There are many folks on this forum more knowledgable than me, but a simple answer is that the JPEG image is porcessed by the camera, so you are seeing the end reslut the way the camera chose to process the image.
Got one today. This guy had some teeth! 🙂
Love this time of year .. The colors are stunning!
Corey, something about this pick says “Gaurd Dog” to me. Awesome job. This should be on a cover somewhere if you have a vertical version. Otherwise, a full page spread would do nicely ;D.
I like a little of it all as well. I like to learn, so anything new and technical is interesting. I’m really into photography, so I drool over the big glossies. I think the number one reason I read magazines is because I LOVE flyfishing, but don’t get to go as much as I would like. Even though I get to go fairly often in season, I don’t have the luxury of living on the water day in and day out. Thus, I read and look at the fly fishing magazines so I can “fish and be on the water” vicariously. I don’t really read destination pieces as much anymore….some are interesting, but 99% I will never visit. Some I enjoy because it expands my horizons, and I learn more about the world and our country, and what they have to offer, and it is nice to get a taste since I probably won’t ever see them in person. Nowadays I tend to read more lifestyle. I for one love the American West, so I could look at it all day long.
I agree that this board has a wealth of info, which is why I was specificaly drawn to it, as well as the podcasts/music, and photography forum.
As far as mags I subscribe to (don’t mean to knock the others, these are just the ones I have chosen):
Fly Fishing and Tying Journal – gets the techie stuff covered
The Drake – makes me laugh outloud and covers the lifestyle and great photography
Gray’s Sporting Journal – Great photography/fine art and a more literary approach which I appreciate
Trout– I peruse it and it keeps me informed on conservation issues, etc. Some I agree with, some I don’t. I read it criticaly and make my own conclusions.
Currently I have a 10D and would think we are dealing with similar settings here. If you shoot RAW (I use the Adobe RGB RAW), at least on the 10D, you can not adjust the parameters. The +4 or -4 parameters you can set in camera only affect the JPEG files (and modes you shoot in that produce only JPEG files). I think this may be your issue.
When I get my RAW images into DPP, I usually bump the saturation up several notches. Then I do a copy recipe and paste it to all the rest of the images.
Nice Work John! Beautiful. I really like the one of the hunter shooting at the flushing pheasant (#4)! The hen flying is a beautiful one as well, and the #1 & #3 rooster. I can see those in magazines.
I wish we had pheasants down here. About an 11 hour drive for me to pheasant country.
Thanks a ton for your help Ben, and the rest who chimed in.
If anything does come of my submissions, I’ll let everyone know. It has been really cool to see other IA folks’ work get published recently. It’s nice to be reading a magazine and see an awesome photo, and say, “Hey I know that guy!” and celebrate with them.
EDIT: Ben, I reviewed the contact sheets last night after they had dried 24 hours, and I ended up going with the ones where the printer was set to Adobe 1998 after all.
