Pike and touch up

[Lee Haskin]

I learned a valuable lesson on my last trip:

This picture ended up being one of my best from a recent trip to Alaska, however, for publishing, I learned that the Boga Grip, attached to the fish in the original picture, made the picture unusable.
After some touchup I was able to create a more "acceptable" picture in the eyes of those that care about those things. Grin!



For those of you that use a boga for saltwater species, etc., you might keep the "boga factor" in mind, if you intend to sell the shot or use it for an article.

$.02
Cheers,
Lee

[jbird]

Lee

Photoshop programs are the best thing since sliced bread! This is a picture of a striper my friend Mark caught in Mexico. Everything looks beautiful in this picture... It didnt start that way. This fish had 3 feet of its stomach hanging out of its mouth in the unedited picture. I went on to eliminate all the bimini structure and fly rods in the final edit, leaving nothing but fish and sea.

Jay

[Lee Haskin]

Very nice.

Yes, it is great to be able to "recover", when you have a super shot, and a minor flaw ruins the picture.

I took dozens of pictures on this last trip to Alaska, and was glad that the best pictures were able to be saved with Photoshop.

Here is another Boga-less picture. 15 lb. Sheefish.