Neal Osborn
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Mike you are my Zen Fisher Hero. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “I live vicariously through you.”
Your version of ghetto fishing is MUCH better than the one at Urban Dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ghetto%20Fishing
An article on technique with no photographs of the actual technique or at least a fluffy bobber in water shot?
Neal I lucked up and got a deal on an Arca B1 with a RRS clamp on in it on ebay! I can’t wait till UPS Claus drops it off on the porch 😀
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Mike, that is an AWESOME tripod! I have the same model (not the 1541t but the 1541), which I use for travel and hiking. Is yours a “t” traveler or the original 1541? I don’t mind the minimal extra length on the 1541. You will love the tripod.
SO . . . what head are you going to pair with it? PM me if you need recommendations other than your Manfrotto.
If you are doing multiple images for an article then I agree the PS technique is a bit overkill (and time consuming, aagghh). The black felt is indeed the “cheepo” stuff and it works best because it is flat black and sucks up light very well. In that case you just use the black background and be sure to either 1)snoot the flash so it hits just the fly (preffered), or 2)flag off the spill. You can also do bracketed exposures but that is again more work in PS.
This is a snooted shot on cheep black felt.
You don’t need “paint”.
Go to Jo-Anne fabrics and buy a 2-foot piece of black backing felt without sheen. Place it 2 feet from the fly/subject and flag off the flash spill. Done, easy.
The trick is to burn the image in Photoshop to get the black less than 10 (i.e. 1-255, less than 10 is essentially “print” black with full ink on paper). Choose burn tool, set opacity to around 15% and select “shadows”, brush in the dark pixels in the black background and the fly/subject will not be modified; only the shadows get burned.
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