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A few pics from fishing yesterday.

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:24 pm
by mr tibbs
Here is my brother. I let him use my fishing pole for 2 seconds and he catches a fish! :mad:
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I can't decide between these 2 photos.

#1 nice and clean
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#2 SET IT ON FIRE!!!!
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And this is my personal favorite of the day. I think this one is getting printed and framed.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:36 pm
by Misfire
That bottom picture is fantastic! Nice shot!

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:43 pm
by mr tibbs
THANK YOU!! What makes is so great to me is that the guy fishing is my old man. How many people have a pic like that of their old man?? :mrgreen:

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:35 pm
by bretti_kivi
Nice set.

Bret

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:15 am
by stipud
I definitely prefer 1 to 2, but I hate heavy processing :P

I see you and your brother were beaten with the same ugly stick :lol:

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:09 am
by bretti_kivi
quick thought on the last one:
- either slightly higher, place him directly in the middle of the lake
or
- slightly to the right or left and almost on the floor. f/4. Isolate him, horizon of lake and catch the line as it flies....

Bret

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:46 am
by 689nzo
nice pics

cpl filter?

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:12 am
by mr tibbs
689nzo wrote:nice pics

cpl filter?
Lightroom presets :wink:

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:15 am
by mr tibbs
bretti_kivi wrote:quick thought on the last one:
- either slightly higher, place him directly in the middle of the lake
or
- slightly to the right or left and almost on the floor. f/4. Isolate him, horizon of lake and catch the line as it flies....

Bret
I guess I could try cropping it and see if that isolates him a little better. I'll try it a little later on and see if I like it better.

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:10 am
by stipud
mr tibbs wrote:I guess I could try cropping it and see if that isolates him a little better. I'll try it a little later on and see if I like it better.
His head is getting cut by the horizon, so I dont think you can crop that better. A bit higher would have put him over the body of water, or lower would have put him in the sky. That makes his silhouette more apparent.

Minor aesthetics like that are hard to get perfect, and even harder to spot on the LCD once you have taken the picture. I try to get it right, but I usually take a couple shots from different positions just to have more options. Sometimes the ones I think look worse through the viewfinder look better on my screen. That's the benefit of not having to pay for picture development!

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:24 am
by bretti_kivi
I will admit right now to having two stepladders in the garage. They're mine, too, for photography. One is a two-step one I'll be using again with some extra feet in the winter, the other is five steps and around 4' high. Works wonders :)