Paulus Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Hi all, it's been a while since I posted (life being that way... sometimes...) but I always love to share my "jumping steelhead" pics with this group. I was down at the local dam this weekend, with my 300mm zoom lens, hoping for good results. A tiny bit of cropping & a few adjustments later and... you be the judge! p.-
BillM Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Beauties!! I'll bring my 100-400mm and tripod and let you have a go at it :)
Roy Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Really nice pics, Paulus. Some of those fish look like they're laying on ice. Thanks for sharing.
manitoubass2 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Great pics! How the heck do you do that? Sequence photos and fast shutter speed?
BillM Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Great pics! How the heck do you do that? Sequence photos and fast shutter speed? Good lens, good lighting, fast shutter speed and a bit of luck. Paul has it down pat.
manitoubass2 Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Good lens, good lighting, fast shutter speed and a bit of luck. Paul has it down pat. Cool! And yes he sure does!
highdrifter Posted April 14, 2015 Report Posted April 14, 2015 Well done budday. Seeing steelies do their thing is sometimes more entertaining than drifting for them.. Somethimes.. tisk. As-tu des plans cette fin de semaine?! cheers HD
sofabed Posted April 15, 2015 Report Posted April 15, 2015 Great Pictures. I wish I lived in area where you could watch fish jumping like that
Paulus Posted April 21, 2015 Author Report Posted April 21, 2015 Good lens, good lighting, fast shutter speed and a bit of luck. Paul has it down pat. That's about it, and a sore buttocks...I sat there for an hour with my eye stuck to the viewfinder, doing my best to click whenever I saw one jump. So I snapped well over 300 shots, most of which were either out of focus or had a tail in it or just a head etc... Some of them were just really crisp freeze-frame pictures of running water, lol. . Another trick, if you have a dslr (probably works with upper end point and shoot cameras too), is to press the shutter button halfway and keep it pressed, while you wait for the next fish to make its move. That way, the camera is already focused when the fish passes through the sight & it doesn't waste any extra time before engaging the shutter. Thanks for the kind words everyone . p.-
Paulus Posted April 21, 2015 Author Report Posted April 21, 2015 Well done budday. Seeing steelies do their thing is sometimes more entertaining than drifting for them.. Somethimes.. tisk. As-tu des plans cette fin de semaine?! cheers HD uh, this weekend? I'm not sure really............. p.-
BillM Posted April 21, 2015 Report Posted April 21, 2015 Depending on your camera I'd be using back button focusing with AI-Servo. You're losing a lot of time by using one button for both auto focus and shutter. Also if you know there jumping in a specific spot, manual focus the lens and use a remote shutter. So you can just sit there in your lawn chair and press a button anytime one jumps, if your DOF is deep enough it should work. Also use high speed continuous for your 'Drive' mode. No go back and try that, lol!
Jon Posted April 21, 2015 Report Posted April 21, 2015 What Bill said, although I was sitting on the rocks, not a lawn chair. https://www.flickr.com/photos/91080279@N05/sets/72157652090117845/ Jon
PUMP KNOWS Posted April 22, 2015 Report Posted April 22, 2015 Did you take any pics of them on the spawning beds?
Paulus Posted April 22, 2015 Author Report Posted April 22, 2015 What Bill said, although I was sitting on the rocks, not a lawn chair. https://www.flickr.com/photos/91080279@N05/sets/72157652090117845/ Jon Exactomundo! Which is why I referred to my sore buttocks - I think I might have seen you there. Lovely shots. You captured some true monsters p.-
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