Photo Contest March-April 2012

[Benny]

Photo Contest March-April 2012

Here are the rules

1.Photographs must have been taken during the months of March ~ April 2012 This will be on a honor system so play fair, anyone not playing fair will have bad fishing karma for the rest of the 2012!
2.Photographs must relate to fly fishing in one way or another, a place, person, fish, gear, flies, insects, you get the picture, please don't be afraid to think outside the box.
3.Photographs that have been digitally altered beyond standard optimization (removal of dust, cropping, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc.) will be disqualified.
4.No HDR (High Dynamic Range) allowed.
5.Stitched panoramas creating one photo will be allowed.
6.One photo per contestant, you may submit a different photo before the deadline is up.
7.Contest ends Monday April 24, 2012 @11:59 am...pacific time
8.All forum members are welcomed to submit photos, that includes admin, mods, and newbies.

The winner will receive a GREYS GS Fly Box. Please don't be shy, submit your photos, participation is key for these photo contest to work. Go out, have fun fishing, and don't forget the camera. Good luck to you all, and have a great time on the water.

[Justin]

Well I guess I'll kick this one off. Taken on March 3rd
My Son Bruce with a Trout on


Justin

[darrin terry]

Cool. You win. Or rather, Bruce did.

[Wildman]

How proud can a Father be? Water looked nice and you must have been grinning from ear to ear. Savor these days!

[JGFLYFISH]

Very cool, even got his own lanyard.

JG

[WanderingBlues]

Right on Justin!

[fishabuoy]

Love seeing shots of the "next generation" Nice shot!

Bob V

[flybob]

A great shot from a proud PAPA!

[tenandtwo]

Brown Trout March 6 2012

[Artin]

Hey Benny what does #4 in the rules mean? 4.No HDR (High Dynamic Range) allowed.

Hopefully I'll gt out next weekend and get some content to enter

Artin

[darrin terry]

Here's a link to the Wikipedia article on HDR photograph Artin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

[Benny]

Artin, here is an example of the HDR process. To me it looks sort of cartoonish, some people like it, some people don't. It's just way to much computer software processing and not really the photographer and the camera itself.

[darrin terry]

I mostly agree Benny. I do think it has its place though. Actually, I kinda dig the finished image in the example you posted. The wide angle, exaggerated perspective of that shot works with the effect you get from HDR. I also like it when used with certain beach shots and a few other situations. That said, I do agree that it's too much post manipulation for what you are doing here.

[Artin]

I get it. I read that link as well. It looks good but I think that Benny is correct that it takes away from skilled photographers. But I think they look nice still.

By the way can I enter a picture from March 2 years ago?

Artin

[darrin terry]

Artin, if you want to check out some more great photography, look into the Dgrin.com forum. You don't have to be a member to look and there are a great many very good photogs there. The first HDR pics I saw were on that sight a few years ago. I don't think HDR is a technique used by sub-par photographers per se. It's just another tool to achieve a certain type of look which cannot be had through any other method. It's kind of like a modern version burning and dodging and saturation work which used to be done with film. Different but some of the same ideas happening to pull detail from areas which otherwise would be either blown or blacked out.

Just a tool like any other. When used by good photogs the resulting HDR images can be incredible. Again though, I don't think it's appropriate to this situation.