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Guest Blog with Bret “Gatorbyte” Nelson
Posted by: | CommentsBret Nelson, AKA Gatorbyte, is a director for North Georgia Trout Online (NGTO). Like all of us, he has an interest in fly fishing photography. I recently met Bret at the NGTO fall fling and as we were swapping fishing stories I noticed the pictures on his iPhone were good examples of how fun it is to capture the fishing tales on camera. Even more exciting was the fact that he had been practicing with his Olympus Stylus 850 SW waterproof point-and-shoot camera and he mentioned that some of the lessons he reviewed were from this site, Fly Art Studio. Since I believe the waterproof cameras should be considered a modern piece of gear in every fly fishers vest, I took the opportunity to invite Bret as the first guest photo-blogger to showcase some examples of how he uses his camera on the river. In the future I hope to follow each of the point-and-shoot tutorials with a guest blog that showcases tips and tricks on how we can better use the point-and-shoot cameras on the water.
The following are Bret’s answers to a few questions I asked.
Q: How long have you been fishing, where do you fish, what do you fish for?
White Balance Correction Techniques – And The HL Midge
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“Y’all have created a monster. I’m pretty impressed with this result, considering it’s a waterproof snapshot camera.” – Abe Mathews -
This is a guest host fly tying tutorial and also a lesson on how to correct white balance using computer software. The guest, Abe Mathews, shows us how to tie the HL Midge. This was originally posted on The Itinerant Angler (www.itinerantangler.com). It is a great looking midge pattern and Abe does a great job detailing the tying steps. He used a Pentax Optio W60 waterproof point-and-shoot camera for this series. We had been discussing white balance and the challenges of getting truly corrected color out of a point-and-shoot camera for on-the-bench tying instruction. As you know, those incandescent and fluorescent bulbs can really throw off the auto white balance. However, there are some good techniques to help combat this situation before shooting and some even more powerful tips and tricks to correct color in the computer once the shoot is over. With that in mind, let’s look at Abe’s great tutorial and my follow up comments on white balance correction.
***The original Tutorial***
***The HL Midge (Hobby Lobby Midge)***
Professional Fly Photography by Ben Cochran
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I am very excited to have professional photographer Ben Cochran do a blog entry here at FAS. Ben is a wealth of photographic knowledge and also an experienced fly fisher and fly tier. I have been wanting to showcase other people’s work and thought this would be an excellent way to bring together some of the fundamentals we have been discussing in recent posts. With this in mind, Ben will answer a series of questions in relation to general fly photography and offer his advice on certain principles to consider in your own photography. Feel free to post questions for Ben at the end of this blog.
And let’s not forget the wonderful flies themselves! These streamer flies were tied by master fly tier Robert Schreiner from Philadelphia.
Ben’s bio and introduction . . .
The Hopper Juan
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This is the first guest host tutorial on Fly Art Studio. The Hopper Juan, by Juan Ramirez from Coloradao Springs, Colorado. It was first posted on the Itinerant Angler blog under the fly tying section.
These pictures showcase great fly photography from a point-and-shoot camera and upon seeing them I didn’t hesitate to ask Juan’s permission to show them here at FAS. He used a Canon Powershot A720 to take these exceptional macro pictures of his Hopper Juan pattern. Notice the rich colors, good white balance, unique and interesting composition, clarity, and lack of blown out highlights and shadows. Even professional photographers are commenting on Juan’s tutorial. Here is a quote from Ben Cochran, “. . . Great [tutorial] and very good photographs. It is so much easier to study a [tutorial] when the images are crisp and show good detail, VERY well done!! This illustrates that the camera is secondary to how the photographer uses their equipment. I hope this also encourages others to learn their P&S cameras so that they too can see that no one has to purchase expensive DSLR’s, just to get the same quality shots that you did.”
Mini Hopper Juan
