Still Life- Fly Fishing

[edG]

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6060/6279175168_0fa9a64b5e_b.jpg

Shot this with a Mamiya m645 with Ilford HP5 Plus 400 iso using a f2.8 80mm lens using continuous light (decided to try lighting it without using speedlights)

Film was developed in Ilfosol 3 for 6.5 minutes, negatives were scanned with a Canoscan 9000f, imported in to Lr 3.5

[JAS_Photo]

Lovely still life and nice tones in the B&W.

[edG]

Thanks JAS!

[Barefoot]

Wonderful image. Unfortunately, it reminds me that I have enough unused fly fishing equipment laying around, that if sold, I could buy a D3X.

Again, I enjoyed this shot.

[Iguanasan]

Nice shot. The light makes it feel like it's 4:00am and you're packing up to head to the lake! :)

[Marko]

I like this as well Ed!

[edG]

Cheers Barefoot, Iggy and Marko.

[asnow]

Very nicely done. Now I want to see a picture of the fish you caught.

[edG]

Thanks asnow, funny thing is I rarely took a camera when I was fishing (mainly used a cell phone since I had to carry it with me at all times).

[susan]

Love still life photography in general -- I really like what you did here! Job well done!

[edG]

Thanks Susan!

[thoughton]

I really want to like this, great subject matter, like the toning and composition. The feather background is genius. However I think the DOF is a bit too short, my eyes are drawn to the OOF handle of the reel/spool thing, and the flies seem a little soft (I guess that could just be a side-effect of furry flies).

[Mad Aussie]

Cool still life shot Edg! I like the slight sepia tone for this too.

[edG]

Cheers MA and Tim.

Tim - absolutely agree with you on the DoF, could not use the lens I wanted due to space restrictions and I was too lazy to set up the speedlights - so mea culpa