A few pics from fishing yesterday.

Post by **mr tibbs** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:24 pm

Here is my brother. I let him use my fishing pole for 2 seconds and he catches a fish!

I can't decide between these 2 photos.

#1 nice and clean

#2 SET IT ON FIRE!!!!

And this is my personal favorite of the day. I think this one is getting printed and framed.

Misfire · Post by **Misfire** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:36 pm

That bottom picture is fantastic! Nice shot!

Post by **mr tibbs** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:43 pm

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??

bretti_kivi · Post by **bretti_kivi** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:35 pm

Nice set.

Bret

Post by **stipud** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:15 am

I definitely prefer 1 to 2, but I hate heavy processing

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

bretti_kivi · Post by **bretti_kivi** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:09 am

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

689nzo · Post by **689nzo** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:46 am

nice pics

cpl filter?

Post by **mr tibbs** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:12 am

689nzo wrote:nice pics

cpl filter?

Lightroom presets

Post by **mr tibbs** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:15 am

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.

Post by **stipud** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:10 am

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!

bretti_kivi · Post by **bretti_kivi** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:24 am

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