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| What is your trick to making your fish look so big in photos. I thing the readers need to know what it takes to create good photos. |
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| My genes allow me to make fish look so big. Being short and squatty, small fish even look big next to me. I am still trying to figure out if that is good or bad. I thought musky slime grew hair but I haven't seen any improvement in my phase IV clinical studies.
Short, fat, squatty and bald. Any musky looks good next to me Jason. Why do you think I fish so much (LOL)!
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| Jason,Ted Takasaki insights to me where focus on the fish ,then make sure the angler is in the complete box.Catching good ones help.
Good fish look good no matter what the pics look like.If she is a good size she will shine.Holding them and exposing there flanks properly gives amplitude to the picture.
Quality cameras help also,but you would be surprised of the quality of disposable cameras also when the pic is well taken.
Smile you could be next
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| I think the hold has something to do with it too.
Using a horizontal hold, keep the fish away from your body just a bit, no more than a foot...a little goes a long way and you want it to be subtle or else it just looks like you're trying to stuff the fish into the camera. Also, hold the tail end out just a bit farther.
Then, like Marc said, the photographer should focus on the fish. The way I like to describe it is to "frame" the fish. Meaning, fill the view finder with the fish making sure you can still see the angler's face.
Jono
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| Film can also be key...100 speed for bright and sunny days....800 speed for night.
I also have a digital and having it set up is also very important.
Being ready and having easy access to a camera that is ready to shoot is also very important... Most of my bad pictures have been from rushing do to not being ready.
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| I will answer my own post. I have been playing around with horizontal holds that have the head of the muskie closer to the camera. This gives a perception of depth and the head looks massive.
If you turn the fish and hold it at a 45 degree angle to the camera with the head being closer to the lens, this can be done. You still get a good side view of the fish and 40 inch fish look massive when done this way. Also place your left hand under the belly and let the belly and tail sag.
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| This one can get very contraversial but I will go ahead and put my toughts on this subject.
I personaly like to get a picture of a fish held horizontal and supported and have the angler have his elbows touch his sides.
I for one believe that any vertical or tail out or any other kind of trick to make a fish look bigger just does the opposite. I think that too many try to get their fish to look bigger then they are. Just get out there and catch some big fish and they will look big no matter how you take the photograph. I like to see some different poses here and there but the best interest of the fish should be a priority and not how big you can make it look.
I have been told that I make bad pictures but I can say that I am 6'3" tall and 260 Lbs and I do not have any tricks to make my fish look bigger then they actualy are. I just make them look smaller then they actualy are but one can see that I do not have the fish at the end of my arms and any other tricks to make them look different then they are.
I still have to tell my clients to hold the fish horizontal to get a better picture then vertical. I can't wait to see the pictures from my clients 51 incher from Tuesday as this guy is under 5'6" tall and made that fish look huge.[:sun:]
Hope I don't ruffle to many feathers here but I am desapointed when I get directed to a big fish picture and it's vertical as it is impossible to judge it's lenght or see it for the size that it is. |
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| Jason, the same theory as yours will work if switched around as well-i.e. if you push the mid to tail section away from your body towards the camera on a vertical hold. It gives the fish a good, thick girthy appearance. For an example check out the fish I am holding on page 63 of the summer 2001 issue of Esox Angler. It was a nice fish, but I used the trick on that photo to make it look considerably larger. EJ |
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| Being 6`3 has always hurt,caught 24 inch smallie in Il looks like an average fish,38 inch muskie looks like a 30 inch fish ,I think height plays big part in taking pictures of fish.0723[:(] |
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| Richard you really don't take bad pictures of the fish...problem is you only concentrate on the fish and the angler and background come out at screwy angles[;)]. Richard I don't understand your statement about not being able to judge the fishes size with a vertical hold...at least you have some prosepective with the fisherman's height. With a horizontal hold you have less reference with the fisherman in which to measure the fish just by looking at it. I know you are dead set against vertical holds but the question in this thread only asked how you could make the fish look its best.
I have asked many people at my house which picture looks more impressive of the 47" I caught with you last year....I have a blow-up of the horizontal hold and one with the vertical hold (at the time I did not know Richard was against vertical holds or I never would have held it in that manner--I will say he calmly educated me later that he feels the vertical hold can damage the fish..but lets not get into that here[:bigsmile:] ). All agree the vertical hold picture is more impressive.
I have a den full of pictures of fish...probably around 35, and I think it is easier to make a fish look good with a vertical hold (brand me "barbarian"). You make sure both hands are behind the fish and you can move it out 18-24 inches making it look impressive. The last reponse really tells it to....fill the frame with fisherman and fish, not too much background.
From a Picture Taking Fool,
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| A number of years ago, Tuffy Boats had a release photo contest. First prize was a new Tuffy Rogue. I won and sold that boat and my Esox to get my Esox Magnum.
The secret to great muskie pictures are simple and are quite
easy to do if you think while you are taking the pictures.
1) Catch a nice muskie. 2) Frame the muskie and person(s) with a little space to spare around them in the view finder because most all pictures are developed by machine and the machine will crop off a portion of the negative. 3) If you are shooting pictures in sunshine, turn the boat to get the sun on the front of the subject, take off sunglasses, tip you hat back alittle to keep from having a shadow across your face. If you are using a camera with a flash you may want to use it even in the sun to reduce these shadows. 4)
Take a second to see what will be in the background of the picture. Do you want a guy cutting his grass in the background or a nice lake view? 5)If you are using a true old style 35MM camera, adding a polarizing filter to your normal filter can improve the pictures by turning the sky bluer and it can eliminate glare off the water for great water release pictures. |
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| 6) Take a look at the fish. Is one side better looking than the other? Maybe a fin is missing or there is a scare on the muskies side that might not look to appealing to a non-fisherman.
If there is blood on the fish, no matter who's it is the fishes or the fisherman's, (sometimes Sponge Bob still tries to lip his muskies as if they were a bass!) wash it off. 7)when taking the picture make sure the side profile is positioned to best show the fishes markings, no difference if the fish is being held in the air or in the water. 8)wear something with some color in it. This will better contrast the fish. 9)hold the fish from behind so that your arms or sleaves don't block the view of your fish.
10) take a half a dozen pictures at least. Film is relatively cheap. You don't want the only muskie picture of your fish of a lifetime to have your eyes closed while you are blinking or your mouth in a weird shape while you are talking. 11) Go Fishing! |
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