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Technique

Working on technique - depth of field and background colour. The image below was made from thirteen separate images focus stacked.

Folio Proposal

The idea I have chosen for my folio is fly-fishing. Fly-fishing covers a range of things from entomolygy through to bamboo fly-rod construction. There is also a vast range of literature associated with the sport that goes back as far as 1420 - The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle.

As this is such a large area to cover I have decided to focus on fishing flies and also fly tying.

I plan on taking photos of various flies to convey the intricacy of their construction as well as their beauty. Not all of the flies I will use may be the best ones to fish with, but they will represent the art of fly-tying.

I will also be attending a fly-tying evening at my club and take some shots of people in the act of tying them.

I have built a macro studio that I will use for taking the photos of the flies. The plan is to take a number of photos of the flies and then to have a central photograph to put them in some form of context. This may be the equipment used in fly-fishing or an actual fish with the fly still in its mouth.

The video below is an example of fly-tying.

Some fly-tiers go to extremes with their realistic impression of insects – here are some examples.

Graham Owen - Tier and photographer

 Graham Owen - Tier and photographer

Here are some photos using the macro studio!