Zach Matthews
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Hey that makes a certain amount of sense – swiss straw is sometimes used as shellback and easter packing material.
I’ve seen scud flies that are pink and orange, although I have yet to actually see a scud that color.
Hey GS –
I responded in the other thread but just for posterity: per Thom Hogan, it isn’t possible with the remote. You can get someone to stand there and push the trigger, but you can’t do it alone.
Zach
Hey GS –
From talking to my editor. I’ve sold them quite a few pictures and I know where I am on this. I need to be able to scan slides in advance to send in *electronic* proofs – it is much faster and most submissions are being handled this way now. Fly Fisherman had me upload my images via FTP, but American Angler and The Drake accepted them via email as well.
Most major magazines want 300 dpi. Multiple 300 dpi by the 17″ by 11″ double truck print size and then divide the results by a million and you have your megapixel count. 16.4 or something is the requirement for an out-of-camera 300 dpi print. Now they don’t actually print in 300dpi (they only need 266) but they still want to see the images in that size to be able to crop as needed.
All of this is actually moot, I’ve talked about it extensively with a couple editors now and a D200 will get the double truck job done – they can enlarge these images enough to satisfy them. The 300dpi thing, like the RAW requirement, is really only in place to discourage mass submissions by amateurs. (My John Wilson shot that ran full-page in this month’s American Angler is a D70 JPEG.)
Also, continuous bursts with the D70 are not, alas, possible.
Mike –
In September we are expecting the Nikond D50 to drop into the sub $500 range with a kit lens (which is pretty good).
Solid shots, too, Ian – yours or Taylor’s? Who post-processed them? The top one is slow enough that I know someone brought the reds back up, because exposures that long in the Park go green. Good job both of you. Your color saturation is excellent on the second and third as well. None of the brookies I caught had that degree of separation between the colors; they were muddier looking. Given that the watersheds are actually cut off from each other, I wonder if we were catching separate strains within a mile of each other?
Hans said the Deep Creek trail requires a “two to three mile hike before you even see fishable water.” So much for reliable maps, eh?
You did right to go in early – Hans said there were ten anglers fishing behind him when we turned around, and I had covered about two miles of water at that point without seeing anyone. That’s what I got for going downstream; a nice hike. I also jumped a couple grouse – I hike quiet when alone.
Here’s the same fish shot from the side; notice how the yellow sub-spots on the side are less defined, and how it seems to lack the dual colors of the belly (although you can’t see completely underneath).
Hey Pancho –
I’d get the G2 and here’s why: both rods will handle the tasks you need them to with no problems.