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Bob I’m with you. When it first came out I described it as “looking like a dropped pizza supreme while on a bad acid flash back”.
They wanted me to do something on Australia – 2,000 unpublished words and a submission of 30 images. I said “How much do you pay”?
They said “We don’t pay”.I won’t say what I said. ;D ;D ;D 😮
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2 TB Lacies plus numerous older drives and Time Machine, Toast and a big box of filed DVD’s.
Get a Mac mate. I use a 13 inch Mac book 90% of the time now, may have to upgrade with my next camera but its a wonderful little contraption.
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Matt when I used them, I only ever used polarisers in full sun, that’s when you really get the wow effect.
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“Don’t fear the flare” – its part of the package. Â Lens internal structure is going to have a good deal to do with this – higher number of elements will make it more likely.
Get a subject between you and the sun to put the lens in shade and hit it with some flash. Its about back lit highlights.
For this photography your lends needs to be immaculately clean as well.
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David – that horizon is crooked…….. ::)
I wing it a lot when using a wide lens because I shoot from low angles or high angles and don’t use the viewfinder.
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Henry – love your work mate. Agree on Lightroom but have stuck with it in the face of the devil you know………
Rugby discussion on a US fly fishing/photography site, now the world is becoming
Done that myself on several occasions Kendal, camera in and out of bag, looking at the scene and not noticing (same lens) ……..
I also like sexyloops because of the socks and because Clark Reid does a front page once a week. 😀
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Neal I’ve noticed a few magazines using really skewed horizon images, I’m a bit old fashioned I’m afraid, I find myself reaching for the horizon straightening function tool  😀 I guess on the macro stuff its something you could get away with provided the composition was also good.
In your image here if the fly was coming down a slope towards the bottom right hand corner I could deal with it but as I see it that large dark area top right is really distracting. Not only is the horizon on a slope but the composition is out of balance too, it makes me want to fall off my chair.  😉  🙂
This is a deliberately skewed horizon image, Dave Anderson took the pic with my camera when were mucking around on the Tongariro trying to do some different stuff. It works – just. I think it works because of the flow and direction of the river in the BG.
MorsieRob I love your use of the horizon, great composition and I guess thats what its really about.
Chad you’re closer to Baja than I am. I reckon that would be pretty bloody cool. Some dramatic landscapes down there from what I’ve seen, and of course there’s the fishing.
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GREAT casting site that many of the finest casters and anglers on the planet frequent, also quirky, irreverant, and at times right out there in discussions on politics, religion, whatever – and best of all its not cliquey and regional, its definitely world wide. Sometimes its like being in a pub at about 11 o’clock at night. Many world wide friendships (and enmities) have been made there.
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Matt, We’re going to have to get together again soon, preferably with a bit of fishing water very nearby. The bottom pic could do with a bit of post adjustment, are you shooting in RAW or jpeg?
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Look for difference and for drama, stay away from the picture postcard scene.
Position your horizon thoughtfully.
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Pics 6 & 7 John – there’s a very dull grey sky (with interesting cloudage) and then this rich warm glow to the water. Then in 7 there are some intense colour highlights in the sky reflected on the water over the horizon of the hill that are not there in the sky.
There’s some lovely pics there though, I like the first few and the people sitting in the waterfall is great, I really like the angle and the way the (backlit) trees take you off the picture to where the river’s come from. Not the same problem elsewhere.
Dave what flash did you use to light that bike – BOOM!!! They must have seen that on Mars?
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John – one comment – you should match the colour of the reflected sky in the water with the colour of the sky itself….  🙂 Unless of course that’s a deliberate look.
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