05-14-2006, 01:20 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Ah, the age old dilemma of picture shooters through the ages: how to take the best possible shot under the worst possible circumstances.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No doubt about it. Tubing is often a solitary pursuit. That means that you must be resigned to taking shots without yourself in them. Unless you can coerce a fellow photog to come along and record some pixels of yours truly, you gotta go with what you got.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I started writing my tubing book, that is one of the things that immediately became apparent to me. Most of my tubing shots are of dead fish, with tube, or fish temporarily laid out on a tube for a picture, hoping the fish would not flop back into the water before you recorded the event for posterity. Lost a few good fish like that. Okay. They won. Good on them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you tube with others, and you are the only guy with a camera, take a lot of flattering pics of the other anglers. They love that. It will also add to your own portfolio of friends' pics. You never know when one of them will "go away" and the pics will be all you have left. And, in a happy way, recording the success of others on the same trip is almost as good as recording your own. And, once more, if you are the photographer (and director), you can arrange positions and light angles to tell the story better. Too often when you are both angler and photographer you have to grab what you can get and move on...hoping for the best.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sounds like you have a creative mind and some experience at staging good shots. Your past contributions on this board have been great. Nobody would complain about the content or the quality of the pics you have served up so far. I personally never get tired of looking at naked fish pictures. Piscatorial pornography. Yeah![/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]All I can suggest is that if you watch the bank for interesting patches of blooming flowers, uniquely shaped trees or stumps, pretty rocks or rock piles, you can select the backdrop for some fishing pics. Then, all you have to do is catch a photogenic fish, keep it alive and healthy long enough to pose it in your preselected picture, shoot the shot and send the fish back home to mama.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Otherwise, there is nothing wrong with fish held at arm's length, against the backdrop of beautiful scenery and photographed in a manner that records the mood of the day as well as the catch. I have long subscribed to the philosophy that trout don't live in ugly places. Why not show them both off when you can?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No doubt about it. Tubing is often a solitary pursuit. That means that you must be resigned to taking shots without yourself in them. Unless you can coerce a fellow photog to come along and record some pixels of yours truly, you gotta go with what you got.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I started writing my tubing book, that is one of the things that immediately became apparent to me. Most of my tubing shots are of dead fish, with tube, or fish temporarily laid out on a tube for a picture, hoping the fish would not flop back into the water before you recorded the event for posterity. Lost a few good fish like that. Okay. They won. Good on them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you tube with others, and you are the only guy with a camera, take a lot of flattering pics of the other anglers. They love that. It will also add to your own portfolio of friends' pics. You never know when one of them will "go away" and the pics will be all you have left. And, in a happy way, recording the success of others on the same trip is almost as good as recording your own. And, once more, if you are the photographer (and director), you can arrange positions and light angles to tell the story better. Too often when you are both angler and photographer you have to grab what you can get and move on...hoping for the best.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sounds like you have a creative mind and some experience at staging good shots. Your past contributions on this board have been great. Nobody would complain about the content or the quality of the pics you have served up so far. I personally never get tired of looking at naked fish pictures. Piscatorial pornography. Yeah![/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]All I can suggest is that if you watch the bank for interesting patches of blooming flowers, uniquely shaped trees or stumps, pretty rocks or rock piles, you can select the backdrop for some fishing pics. Then, all you have to do is catch a photogenic fish, keep it alive and healthy long enough to pose it in your preselected picture, shoot the shot and send the fish back home to mama.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Otherwise, there is nothing wrong with fish held at arm's length, against the backdrop of beautiful scenery and photographed in a manner that records the mood of the day as well as the catch. I have long subscribed to the philosophy that trout don't live in ugly places. Why not show them both off when you can?[/#0000ff]
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