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Martin,

I must admnit I have a wide concept of "Magic", Flyfishing is magic for me, a nice cast too, the landscapes or the "fish tails" of GFF galleries are also magic, a great website as yours is it too, so you are magicians!!

But in the meanwhile, this is black magic:

I made a picture in the middle of nowhere with a red analog camera. Then I sent the film to get developed. After all my family and my friends saw the pictures, I gave them to a guy who works with me (My job is in a Prepress and Printing service) who scanned the pictures (I can swear he doesn't know what camera I had, or when I took the photo... well, I didn't know too, for me was just a red Canon that I have for many years in my fishing bag waiting for the right moment). Then, the picture was compressed (I guess), and sent by the web to GFF, and that is the magic:

1. For me is enough to see the picture placed on a website (The fish is still fresh, the mud is still wet, there are no flies surrounding...)

2. But this is too much:
Below the picture appears:

Camera manufacturer Canon
Camera model Canon PowerShot A300
Exposure time 1/640 s
Lens focal length 5 mm
Lens aperture f 3.6
Date and time of original 2004-12-05 15:07

Aren't you sorcerers? (Or, aren't your software something like a witch pot?)

Great anyway!

Submitted by Frank Nazario on

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WOW!!
function and simplicity... what else can you ask from a fly pattern. Amazingly easy to modify in color ... do not substitute materials i have found it to be perfect for large mouth bass in central florida and incredible in smaller sizes for blue gill and crappie!!

[quote:99ff3d7814="CARLOS"]...Since I saw the technical data below the pictures sent by the visitors of GFF. How could you do that? How could you know if the picture was taken on a determinate camera, with an specific ASA, certain diaphragm aperture, and at a determinate speed?

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... How can you do that with analog pictures taken on conventional cameras, developed and transfered to paper, and then scanned, maybe fixed on Photoshop, converted to JPEG and transmitted (encrypted) by the Web? [/quote:99ff3d7814]

Carlos,

There isn't much magic in that.

The trick is called EXIF, which is short for [url=http://www.exif.org/]Exchangeable Image File Format[/url].

EXIF-information can be embedded in any image file - also ones taken with analog cameras on film and later scanned. You just type it in in your editing or scanning program. Modern digital cameras encode the images automatically and some programs transfer the data all the way to the end, to the web picture.

Our software does no magic at all. It just looks for that EXIF information, and if present, interprets it and prints it under the image. We don't create or construct anything, but just read what's in there.

So much for the magic...

Martin

[quote:f2fd7516e2="Esox"]Tell us Yanks about these Garfish, please. They look small and skinny. Do they fight like rats and hit like lightning the way Chain Pickerel do? Also, do you eat them? I like fish with teeth in general but they look so frail. How big do they get? We have Gar in this country. Several species and a few get into the hundreds of pounds.[/quote:f2fd7516e2]

Bob,

Garfish are small fish compared to your gar. They are usually a pound or so and a 2 lbs. specimen is a trophy. But they are feisty fighters and take a fly willingly - and come in great numbers. You may call them skinny, but they are just shaped like that. Very long and very slender. They are strong and fast, which makes them fun to catch.

They don't hit like lightning - rather the opposite. They pick up a fly slowly and several times and only rarely stick to the fly unless you fish very small flies.

And we eat them, and they taste great.

You can find a lot more info [url=http://globalflyfisher.com/keywords/?keyword=garfish]here on GFF[/url]

Martin

Tell us Yanks about these Garfish, please. They look small and skinny. Do they fight like rats and hit like lightning the way Chain Pickerel do? Also, do you eat them? I like fish with teeth in general but they look so frail. How big do they get? We have Gar in this country. Several species and a few get into the hundreds of pounds.

Submitted by wolfie on

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Nice shot in itself, don't know why rated below average - did you do some post processing on this? It does look a bit "over sharpened" with some odd pixelation at edges of objects.

Submitted by wolfie on

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Good sharp close up - cunning placement of the purple out of focus flower to highlight the fly in the jaw - really makes the picture pop!

Submitted by Patricia Raddatz on

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I am the owner of the property that Jim writes about on the banks of the Tomorrow River.

Submitted by Bo Hartwich on

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I am very new at this and have still to make my first fly... how do you seal the end thred ?? so it dosent just hang loose.. please i want to learn .

Submitted by Robin Rhyne on

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those are simple, elegant patterns. Makes me want to get out the vise right now!

thank you

Submitted by chris from canada on

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Amazing fly!!!

Please , can anyone direct me to a place that I can purchase some zonker strips in that color.

Thanks in advance,
Chris from Canada

Submitted by G.A. Morresi on

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I am SO glad to have found this article! I now have a much better understanding of the many uses of the many kinds of hen hackle.

Thank you Mr. Petti.

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