Openers fun

[Wulff 0]

Well this weekend marked the opening of Trout Season.

Including 12hrs over Tues/Wed shooting (and about 9hrs driving added) I spent about 30hrs total shooting various fishing related stuff over the past few days. Man am I dog flipping tired but it was fun

 

One goal I set myself was to get a selection of Steelhead Airials this weekend. Few fish can rival their acrobatics. Its tough going though, as you only have about one to two seconds to acquire them before they are back down. SSs negate stopping down for extra DoF. Learned a few things now that Ive had time to go through the images, will be better prepared next time. The biggest being 1/800th to 1/1000th often isnt quite enough, F7.1-F8.0 would be about perfect (but so tough to acheive due to light), and that silver scales and white bellies are a biatch. Lessons learned

 

All shot with the 24-70 f2.8 all with the exception of 1 are full frame.

Hope some of you enjoy something you dont see every day.

 

First a couple of nice Hens brought to hand

 

 

 

They eyes have it

 

Obligatory Reel shot

 

Chrome!

 

Some aerobatics

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4 This ones cropped a fair bit but I loved the vertical so allowed myself the consession on this one

 

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7These last two are at f2.8

 

8 Just slightly ooof due to the razor thin DoF

[oatka 0]

WOW!

 

Great work!

 

I love the second shot with the water (all 18 gallons of it) dripping off the fish.

 

Those aerial shots are nice. Is that the hook at the very top of the fish in the completely vertical one?

 

Keep photographing and sharing!

[Wulff 0]

yeah, I beleive so.

if you look hard enough you can just make out what looks like the line. In another shot ( the one with the gaping mouth) you can see the roe bag in its mouth

 

 

[Vito1 0]

Very well done, Wulff! Those are very tough shots to get. Steelhead change directions so quickly that they are in the frame one second, gone the next. The second hen is a beauty!

 

Looks like the lampreys are eating well.

[JayMorr 0]

absolutely awesome Wulff! I love the jumping shots. Well done!

 

 

[troutgeek 0]

As usual, absolutely amazing exposures John.

[Mokai 0]

VEry nice work John..You captured some great moments here..

[Ashby 0]

Wow, those shots of the aerials are awesome, I can only imagine how hard those are to get. All of the pictures are pretty awesome John, nice shots.

 

Ashby

[dwiltshire 0]

Those are great. I love the aerial shots. Come to think of it, I like them all.

Nice work

[Frogfish 0]

Very nice John!

 

One question...do you ever do any fishing yourself?

[Wulff 0]

Lol.

 

Im hoping to get out this weekend for some me time.

Honestly though, I hope Im so busy this year that my rods do gather a little dust.

 

 

[stonefly1 0]

Makes me miss the stealies! Well done John!

[Frogfish 0]

Lol.

 

Im hoping to get out this weekend for some me time.

Honestly though, I hope Im so busy this year that my rods do gather a little dust.

I'm looking forward to seeing some pics of you and fish...in the same frame.

[Wulff 0]

Well I can almost guarentee that. I hit the water by myself a fair bit and end up use the timer for self portraits., but if its just my ugly mug you want to see.

 

Via timer

 

 

Via 1 hand

 

Via my daughter on a g5

 

Via my daughter on a XT

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[Frogfish 0]

Nice brown there John!