FOX'S LAIR

Oh I like these very much, Julian. The contrast between the froth of the net and the scales glittering on the deck, and the fish themselves, is fabulous. I especially like the composition of the first with the way the boat nestles into the floats and the last, with the fisherman standing swathed in his net - very, very effective.
 
Pete Askew said:
Oh I like these very much, Julian. The contrast between the froth of the net and the scales glittering on the deck, and the fish themselves, is fabulous. I especially like the composition of the first with the way the boat nestles into the floats and the last, with the fisherman standing swathed in his net - very, very effective.
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Thanks Pete. Yes Will asked me to take these, so I said I'd get a print done. Means fish for the year ;) did not get any today as I'd forgotten to slip a a plastic bag in with the camera gear.
Those two small blue boxes of fish are each on top of two large ice tubs full of fish, he's already been there several hours getting the catch out from the nets, it looked as he's be there a further four hours or so by the time he's get them boxed weighed and iced and into the cool room. Probably an eighteen hour none stop day or more which is not unusual.

I wish I'd taken and almost did bring along my older cameras which would have been more practical, I did struggle at low iso's to get enough shutter speed. Think I need a Ricoh GR or something similar to have in a pocket handy for such dull dark days.
 
Not that I'm one to complain or anything, but you spelt RADJEL wrong :rolleyes:

Good to see other people working ;) Can't stand working, myself. Love the net in the last shot especially.

Is that a fox eating a fish?
 
Rob MacKillop said:
Not that I'm one to complain or anything, but you spelt RADJEL wrong :rolleyes:

Good to see other people working ;) Can't stand working, myself. Love the net in the last shot especially.

Is that a fox eating a fish?
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Indeedy Rob I did. Just old age, not that you'd know anything about that ;)
Not sure about the fox and fish, unless the head came off, maybe an eel? I'll ask next time.

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I love your shots of fishing boats and their occupants Julian!

If I'm allowed to be picky? I would just watch that greying of the lost highlights in the sea in the second one. Perhaps a smidge of underexposure at the point of taking the image might retain a bit of data there without doing too much damage to the rest of the exposure?
 
Hamish Gill said:
I love your shots of fishing boats and their occupants Julian!

If I'm allowed to be picky? I would just watch that greying of the lost highlights in the sea in the second one. Perhaps a smidge of underexposure at the point of taking the image might retain a bit of data there without doing too much damage to the rest of the exposure?
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You are right Hamish and Exactly why as said above I wished I'd have taken the 5D or much better the EM-5. The Merrils will not allow underexposure , not if you wish to have any decent colour rendition over iso 200. They are wonderful at over exposure and bringing back the highlights, the Quattro's by all account are the opposite. Yet the second one i do remember using the grad tool in Cs6 to bring down the highlight and it got muddy as it is when the saturation was reduced as well. I did not like it at the time and thought I'd discard it and forgot.
This part of the harbour is about as bad as it gets for photography. It faces NNE and the high building shades everything tight to the harbour wall, so anything in the water against the quay is bathed in deep shadow with half the frame in bright water. Wait until the evening and all is fine but boats usually have finished landing by then.
The water in the first image was also problematic also being iso320, but in the end the image shows enough I think rather than being technically good, these days to be truthful I do far far less post work than I used to, as I am finding it so tedious sitting at the computer. I have in fact been contemplating stopping photography because of that, yet resist and will plough on a short while yet to see if I can get exited about it again.
 
Since I am a latecomer to this thread, I can only agree to the superlatives and wish you not to stop your photography if possible. I don't know but Fuji in jpeg works fine I'd say and since the Merrills cover 28 to 105mm I am sure that a Fuji lens of quality can cover the same. That probably would make things easier I hope? One camera, one lens. Look who's talking:D
 
Ivar D. Larsen said:
Since I am a latecomer to this thread, I can only agree to the superlatives and wish you not to stop your photography if possible. I don't know but Fuji in jpeg works fine I'd say and since the Merrills cover 28 to 105mm I am sure that a Fuji lens of quality can cover the same. That probably would make things easier I hope? One camera, one lens. Look who's talking:D
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I dont think I could shoot in jpeg, it brings out a rash . Not keen on zooms, I used to be, the canon L's which I have were ok, but have become a snob of late and like primes ;) , I'll have to have a moment more to find excuses not too get a fuji. Oh I have the EM-5 and some gorgeous primes. Seriously though it has crossed my mind, mostly as the XT 1 looks so sexy for a camera, but really am fed up of paying out that initial £1300 for a start of a system to find it all has very little to do with the gear ( Merlins aside ;) It won me a small competition on Fred Miranda last month) but the luck of where you find yourself standing with camera in hand.

I'll probably end up buying the new EM-5 coming soon which will have the ability to capture 40Mb raws. More money down the drain.
 
Well I follow you there, but my "old" trusted Fuji xe1 handles pretty well both in jpegs and raw and as I have set certain parameters in the raw converter, there's next to nothing to do on the pc in photoshop. And now I've chosen sensia as the film in raw. You see I am not so colourful anymore. Well 18mm works marvelously well, a pancake I'd say. That combo fits in a larger jackets outer pocket and xt1 and xe1 have the same output. And you are used to take your time. An xe1 could possibly cost you about 200 £ today. I'll even give you one of mine:). All the best to you.
 
Ivar D. Larsen said:
Well I follow you there, but my "old" trusted Fuji xe1 handles pretty well both in jpegs and raw and as I have set certain parameters in the raw converter, there's next to nothing to do on the pc in photoshop. And now I've chosen sensia as the film in raw. You see I am not so colourful anymore. Well 18mm works marvelously well, a pancake I'd say. That combo fits in a larger jackets outer pocket and xt1 and xe1 have the same output. And you are used to take your time. An xe1 could possibly cost you about 200 £ today. I'll even give you one of mine:). All the best to you.
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I hear you Ivar. I mention the XT-1 as I am never comfortable with the range finder style cameras. Odd but that is how it is. I've enough, there are souls out there who would love one camera, I must remember that. I've yet to get my Mamiya out working, maybe that will create a spark. It's bloody heavy though.
 
Just trying to help Julian and I myself flutter about between Pentax and Fuji. Love them both, one for taking it easy and one for trying to be fast. So far I've been slow. XT1 is not in my price league when I can be allright with just as good a one at one third of the price. Take care mate and I loved the story.
 
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