Casting

[LightandShadow]

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Needs to be looked at bigger because you’ve caught the perfect moment of the fisherman’s rig hitting the water. I think with a bit of dodging and burning and some work on that white balance you’d have a very very solid shot and in fact I might even crop in on that action.

[LightandShadow]

@admin-2 Something like this?

[Robert Apple]

The crop is better if your featuring the human, but you loose the scale of the river, Not sure what I would do here, that back ground is so bright in comparison to the foreground, I’ll give it some thought.
Now the title may be a bit off , unless he has a brick tied to the end of that Fly Rod don’t think that is a cast , but instead has caught a fish and attempting to land it and its splashing vigorously, so maybe The Fight, or Reel It In, maybe The Landing.

[LightandShadow]

I thought I clicked the shutter as he was moving his arm forward. I was surprised to see the splash when I got the image on screen and surprised that the splash was so close to him. Now that I study this more, his arm isn’t in the forward plane and it looks like he is pulling back on the rod. So, maybe the catch?

I did intentionally frame the wider shot as I generally like to see people in their surroundings in circumstances like this. As happens, there are multiple possibilities within the frame and preference is individual.

[Robert Apple]

Gave it some thought and did a quick 3 part adj. , 1st adjusted the white balance to brighten up the blues a bit, 2nd a selection by luminance range for the shadows, tweaked clarity a tad, dropped saturation a tad, adjusted lighting a tad,  3rd a radial selection around the action Man / Splash at max feathering and raised whites and highlights a tad, makes the fisherman the highest contrast point in the photo to draw the eye without making the lighting unnatural. Also making the fallen tree stand out as a leading line to him. As you said Lots of different ways you could go , but like you. I like showing the surroundings.

[LightandShadow]

Thanks @robertapple for making me rethink the image. I’m not sure I followed all of the advice you gave but I understood the direction you were leading me in.

[Robert Apple]

I sometimes forget adjusting WB is a great way to brighten deep blue shadows.

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Yeah, this is the one that’s heading closer to what I was thinking.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

This version really stands out and love the vibrant colours Steve 🙂

[Tersha]

Wonderful shot Steve, you caught a great moment casting. I looked at all the other photos in your set, they’re all really, really good.

[LightandShadow]

Thanks, @tersha

I originally set up my Smugmug account to act as a portfolio for only my best pictures. It has morphed into a compendium of nearly everything I find worthy of a second glance, working on in Lightroom. Much of it serves as an aid to memory for family. Now that I know how it was going to evolve, I would have signed on for a less expensive venue. I do like the site. It helps greatly to organize my images into more or less coherent groupings.

[LightandShadow]

Thanks for all this feedback, @robertapple @tersha @dahliaambrose @admin-2

I find that I have developed a tendency to rush my editing when I return home from a session in the field. I want to see what I got and don’t spend enough time considering what all I should do with the image. Your feedback, even outside Shark Tank is valuable for the specific image and more generally as well.

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