Well my neighbour gave me a challenge to make a fly reel look interesting.
This is what i came up with. Setup on an arm chair using natural window light only. Materials were materials used to make the fly.
Various shadow/highlight adjustments. Curves, dodge and burn and an increase in temp. white balance set to cloudy. Framed resized and saved.
I have always loved the look of the fly reel and i hope i have caught its beauty. I love fishing and for fathers day last year my son got me a T-shirt which said.....
"Fishing isnt just about catching fish...Its about being with Dad!" Would have loved that title but thought it would be too long. Not all that big on frames but think/hope this one adds to the shot.
Hope you all like it and any comments or crits to help my work improve would be greatly appreciated as always.
Howzitboy, Nixter, Thanks for those wonderful comments guys. Really boosted my confidence. I feel this was probably more luck than judgement but am slowly learning off some great/stunning work from this site.
Great capture! I love all the warm tones and colours. I like the composition with all the fly tying materials too. Perhaps the only change I would make would be to include all of the reel and fly in the frame. Very nice work and well done!
what an outstanding job!! you took your neighbors challenge and out did yourself! just look at that shot. it should be in a poster hanging in a fishing store! such soft, warm lighting, such a nice balance of items with all kinds of textures. I bet most guys here would say, if they took this shot, that its their best work ever. Gratzz!!
It feels a little off-balance to me because the top half is all feathery and the bottom half is all mechanical.
Thanks Guys for the very unexpected great comments. Posthumous, your comment is truly appreciated. I think thats what i wanted and take your point however the feathers in the background were materials that were used to make the fly so thought i would add them too the composition. My main intention was to have the real and lure in sharp focus and the feathers in a blur just to compliment the real.
I can see what you meen though now and will try better or think about it a little more in future compositions. Thanks for all your inputs, this is how i learn.
IMO, everything under the lure is absolutely amazing! The PP is dead on perfect, I love it. But the lure and the feathers above it are somewhat distracting. Overall though, it's still a phenominal photo. I'm sure your neighbor thought so too.
My goodness, you certainly did make a fly reel look interesting. Great lighting and detail. For this particular shot, though, I think I prefer to see the whole of the reel, and not have it cropped off on the left.
This is a really beautiful image...it has a softness and professional quality...the whole arrangement is very well done...could grace the cover of a fishing magazine...
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