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| This has been done here before and was brought up in another thread. Hope nobody minds doing it again.
How long would you guess this fish is? A hint: I'm 5 foot 10 and around 220lbs.
Might be interesting. Thanks.
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | 52.5" |
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| i'll go with 52 3/4 |
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| Can I guess???? ha ha.
Nice pic. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Oh Boy, Here we go! 49.5..........Let the fun begin.
Nice Pic.
Jerome
Edited by Top H2O 8/3/2009 9:57 PM
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| Who cares ! Nice looking solid fish no matter the length |
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Location: Twin Cities | 45-46. |
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| Yep I agree, 42-45, especially with the size he quotes himself at... |
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| 46 even! 
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Location: Hayward, WI | Don't be offended if my guess is WAY short. I'm going to call it 45 inches. It looks a lot bigger, but it looks like the camera may have been close, and your right arm looks extended quite a bit. Then again the base of the tail looks pretty thick...
I can tell I'm no photo analyist, lol.
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Location: Duluth, MN | Holding it pretty far away from your body and close to the camera....i'll say 45". |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | 5'10" ... you could easily put 235 on that kinda frame ... |
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| My guess 45 |
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Location: martinsburg wv | my guess 48" |
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| nice fish period |
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| Thanks for all the guesses. A little trick I learned to make your fish appear much larger than they are is to try to diminish yourself while having the fish fill the frame. As some of you know, extending the fish instead of holding it close to your body can do wonders. I caught this fish a couple weeks ago on LOTW, and it was 45 inches as some of you had guessed. It actually looks bigger than the 47 and 49 inch fish I caught that week because of me kneeling down and holding the fish this way. That's why it is so hard to tell size from a photo. A few people thought this fish in this photo above was 54-55 inches. I wish. My brother caught a 43 inch fish that looks much larger than this fish because of the way the photo was done. It can make a big difference. Thanks again to all who took the time to guess, I always love posts like this on here. Good fishing.
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Location: Yahara River Chain | I'd say somewhere around 49. Nice fish buddy! |
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Location: So. Illinois | 46.75 |
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Location: Nebraska | Just read the thread so not guessing but, what is it about the photo that is just different to me? It doesn't look like a regular photo, but like it is enhanced color-wise. Did you run it through photoshop or paint and tweak it up? |
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Location: Watertown, MN | I with ya sled, on the 235, but there is no way that is 5'10". I am guessing 43-45", this just goes back on that play that you can tell the size of a fish by photo. You cannot, there is so much to play on with lens and angles. All I know is I want to get in a waldera boat, they simply catch fish.
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| My guess is 44 inches.
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| this is a timely thread, thanks for posting Derrys.
i've been playing around with different camera lenses, subject distances, and poses to find what ones i like best...not necessarily to make the fish look bigger, but rather to find what ones make it look better. your point about filling the shot with the fish is a good one for creating quality pictures.
Richard Collin did something similar a few years back, demonstrating very dramatically how different holds impact the apparent fish size in pictures. i'll try and post some of my experiments on different angles and poses for interest (not size) here in the next few days.
i'm also interested in what effect you used to get that grainy canvas effect, i've seen you use it a few times and i think it would be a good one for pictures you want to print out and frame. i've been looking at various photo creating/editing programs and am thinking about buying something...any suggestions?
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Location: Hayward, WI | I have a picture of my holding a 40 incher on the fridge. First musky I caught while trying to fish for them. Everyone that looks at it thinks it's 45 incher or bigger. Wasn't trying to make it look big either. Must have just been one of those right angle, distance, pose shots that really enhanced the fish.
By the way, I know an easy way to get the grainy picture look...just buy a cheap camera like mine, lol.
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Location: SE Wisconsin | 44" |
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| I thought it was a painting not a photograph...nice fish none the less. I will be on LOTW in 10 days. Can't wait. |
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| Thanks guys. It was early in the morning and I forgot to have my brother flip the flash up. I had to run the photo through an editing program to get it light enough. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, and the program I use to get the photos this particular look is called LucisArts. It's a plug-in program that works with my Adobe program and it costs around $160.00. I use a Nikon D50 DSLR and normally use a 50mm f/1.4 lens quite a bit. That lens doesn't work very well for fish pictures because it's not wide enough. For this shot I used a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens.
As I mentioned earlier, the fish was a nice 45 incher, so you don't need to guess anymore.
Some people don't care much for photoshop effects, but they do allow you to do some neat stuff occasionally. Below is a photo I took a few weeks ago that I used the LucisArts program on. I have a 20x30 print of this shot hanging in my living room now. 
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| I was going to guess 47 MD |
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Location: Smith Creek | I was thinking 47 too. Unless he has a massive right hand. |
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | Looks like the fish was photo shopped over another one?? |
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| Looks kind of like it, but that is just from the editing program used to lighten and sharpen the picture. I don't have the skills needed to do that. |
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