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No Brian doesn’t pay……..
Neal I’m not a technical guy, I think its just a matter of doing it better. I think we need to learn to better use all those other times of the day when the light isn’t perfect and to develop the eye for slightly quirky or even the almost cliched shot better.
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It could take someone like this to change the current situation where its mostly free on the net. Then again I’d hate to be negotiating image prices with him unless – I had a shot of Madonna cavorting with an alien…….
Maybe this is the beginning of something new……..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8186701.stm
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Del Brown didn’t name the fly as a “Merkin”, he really didn’t like the name but lived with it as it stuck. Great fly, great angler.
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Part of the problem is that we’re becoming conditioned to mediocrity and worse – “everyman’s” level of quality; news footage shot on cell phones is a good place to start so everyone is now a news reporter. That’s progress they tell me.
But as several doors slam shut because of the technology, others are opening for the same reason. Print on demand books and the reach of Amazon are a case in point.
Visiting the fly fishing trade show in Denver last year was a real eye-opener. It is a very small industry that’s populated by a lot of very passionate people. Its a credit to it that it has produced and sustained in part so much great photography and some really fine photographers for so many years. But as others have suggested its time to look ahead for what new opportunities are opening up through the same technology that’s killed it.
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A good and timely rant Dave.
No matter how anyone wants to dress it up and sugar coat it, cheaper inevitably ends up as nastier.
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Zach, you’re in a position to do it as a “hobby” and can afford to give work away. For some its a full time ‘lifestyle” living.
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Thanks Bob,
Mark I took a moment to straighten the horizon. Hope you don’t mind. Nice work for the subject. Lost a little overall quality in translation.
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Thanks guys, not that one, but I did send the guys a copy of this one each for their walls, Simon, Bob, and Carl McNeil – I like it even better – it was one of those “light” moments. It was in the “year of the mouse”.
Interesting piece Neal and vital for landscape (and other) photography where you have time to compose. Worth studying. At all other times I consider horizon position and the rule of thirds in some way to be my main “speed” composition elements. But there are always exceptions, and cropping.
Neal, That just makes me want to get back to Keys more than ever. That’s a huge poony for first fish – sheeeeet!!!
I really like your use of the horizon – no “horizon head” and its never through the middle of the shot, its a hard thing to avoid in the heat of the moment, bend your knees or go up high. Well done mate.
Jumping fish are really tough to catch, you need anticipation and a very fast drive. Its the main reason I’m holding out for the new Canon 1D mk4. Unfortunately anticipation comes from experience – seeing the angle of the line change lets you know the fish is going to jump and when they’re like that its pretty difficult to not stand there like an idiot with your jaw dropped to the deck and the camera not even lifted up. I had a chance at a blue marlin on the teaser earlier this year, unbelievably spectacular blue around 500lbs that utterly demolished everything we had in the water – I took two shots of nothing because I was so overawed by the moment. I think just about the only things that gets you past it would be time in a war zone, a lifetime of high speed sports photography, or just a vast amount of experience that has you being a little nonchalant at the moment. Lots of opportunities helps.
For jump shots on big fast fish 10fps is good but a shutter speed preset at a minimum of 800 and better at 1200 is ideal.
Well caught though!!
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Good subject Neal and something I don’t consider nearly often enough, often a bit difficult when you spend so much time in boats and there’s little to use as a frame. Its another one of those things you need to be alert to so the opportunity can be seized.
Another bit of natural faming.
And this is one my personal favourites. Bob Wyatt and Simon Chu.
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One thing on your fish portraits Nathan is to avoid the fish’s underbelly. Its usually white so will usually be overexposed and there’s more colour and interest in a fish’s back. But above all focus on the fish’s eye.
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Nathan as Mark said the foreground is a real distraction. Also the fish is a long way off however there are some really nice oily patterns on the water around the fish and when you get in close there’s also a lovely reflection of the fish on the water, something you should take advantage of. Not sure what kind of resolution you’re dealing with but this was crop I did – hope you don’t mind me jigging your image a tad. Play around with some cropping – the fish isn’t quite sharp enough to do a tight crop. From my perspective I’d also look at straightening the horizon a little, not all the way, just a little.
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This one is an old favourite of mine. Its been sold quite a few times, about to be made into an advertising poster -(with a little clean up).
The place is a billabong on the floodplains in the Northern Territory just at the end of the wet season as the floodplains drain off.
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Neal that second shot with the backlit highlight coming through the cloth is in my view what makes these kinds of shots. I really like the last one too, if you ever wanted to convey a feeling of heat and discomfort after a hard day in the sun on the flats that’s it. It isn’t a comfortable image, it isn’t meant to be. That is exactly how most of my flats fishing has been, hard, hot, and looking into the burning sun, especially late in the day before it gets softer and you can look into it safely. 😎
That’s what its all about. Great flash work too.
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