Archive for the ‘Journal Blog Entry’ Category

July 30th 2010

As you can see on the left  under “popular post” The G.Loomis  NRX photos and write up has been very very popular. Saltyshores is getting traffic from all over the world  of people wanting to know more information and want to see more photos of the NRX rods.

They really want people to hold, cast, demo the rods to appreciate all these upgrades.

Besides being lighter and stronger

Bass Rods Ti-SIC/single Foot recoil, Custom G.Loomis Skeleton reel seats,HD Cork handles

Flyrods: Black ion coated recoil guides, HD cork, carbon rod tubes, micro fiber socks

New Reel seat is 40% lighter

In order to promote the feel of the rods they will actually have a demo day of sort soon. The rods will release next month and I will have the location, date and time posted on here very soon of a location you can go check them out and cast them at in Florida.

Along with the standard lifetime Gloomis warranty, new exclusively for the NRX series is a WildCard over the counter swap out program. This can be used one time.

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July 27th 2010

When you get a  chance this month check out the Florida Sportsmans Magazine.

It’s my 2nd Florida Sportmans Cover, a wahoo. I can’t say it’s my best shot out there but  a cover is a cover, I’ll take it.

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7.26.2010

More images of the storm filled sunsets. One thing about storms, after the come through it slicks out really well. Somethings the fish gets really active as well.

Here are some photos I had a chance to edit from this weekend. Most of these are heavily cropped so it’s pretty only good for web use but still,  I thought they were pretty cool.

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7.26.2010

Shot at high iso as the sun goes down, I manage some pics of tarpon coming out of the water feeding on Glass minnows. Pretty cool to see as they are very aggressive at this stage but are only interested in Glass minnows for the most part.

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July 25th 2010

The last few days I’ve been fishing I have been running home in some pretty cool vivid skies. I mean all the afternoon storms we are getting lately makes from some awesome looking skies in the evening. The sun is setting with the orange combined with all the dark rain clouds just makes for some very interesting contrast. I love it.

I had to stop the boat a few times to take some photos of the wicked skies.

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7.25.2010

HDR photography has blown up big time with the advent of Digital photography. High Dynamic Range photography.
Basically it’s the process of combining multiple exposures to get a look that everything is exposed at a wider color/brightness range than cameras can currently see with only one exposure.

If properly done, It can turn out fantastic.

Kenny Smith reminded me about a website of HDR photographer a couple days ago and I figured I share it with you guys.

The guy is phenomenal. His website gets millions of hits and his work has been displayed world wide including the first HDR to be in the Smithsonian.

http://www.stuckincustoms.com

He even shows you how he does it.

The tutorial

Here are some examples of  his awesome work.

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7.24.2010

Here is a short video of some clips I had laying around. I was messing around and actually put this together back in April and completely forgotten about it. Before I erase this sucker off my hard disk I figure I would upload it to youtube and share it with everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_UhVYn8bLg

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July 23rd 2010

Here is a commercial I shot last month for Canyon Bay 2400. It was a bit of rush job, I wanted better B-rolls and better interior shots. Plus I wanted to work on some after effects 3d text but didn’t have much time between all the stuff I have been working on. It turned out ok though considering all that.

You will probably see it air on the Pro Tarpon Tournament that is on now. I believe it is on Sunshine network, World fishing network and Fox Sport.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZZYjTb0FI8

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July 23rd 2010

Laura and Josh joined me yesterday for some afternoon Tarpon fishing. We were on the water at 4 and did not get off the water until it was dark at 9pm. It was not from the lack of trying but all we caught were a bunch of junk fish. I guess every time this happens I get to hear someone say “that is why they call it fishing not catching”.

All was not lost however. The weather was excellent so we were not getting beat up out there. Of course when fishing was slow all kinds of stupid conversation comes up. Regretfully I left the playsport at home however,  so did not get any on video. It would have been a nice addition to the SS boat confession series.

As the sun starting to set we ran across a bunch of bait. Josh gave it a try but failed miserably. Lauren being the fisher girl that she is wanted to throw the cast net. I thought the lighting was was awesome for some concept shots. It turned out pretty nice as the lighting couldn’t be much better.

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July 21 2010

With ICAST 2010 in Last Vegas then the DOA writer’s even in Stuart, Fl, I’ve been away for almost a week now. So today was another “catch up” day. Yep it never seems to end.

So while cleaning up the hard drive this evening deleting useless stuff I came across some video footage I shot while I was very bored apparently. But the video came out pretty nice. I just put it to some music and uploaded the HD video. It’s just a bunch of baiting swimming around for a minute but it’s actually kinda cool looking.

Speaking of video. If you got a chance to look at my video on the Minnkota Talon I put up 4 days ago its very plain and boring. I just shot it with my Kodak Playsport while I was over at ICAST last week. Well for whatever reason, Youtube sent me an email saying that it’s eligible for revenue sharing.

I guess they will put ads up around the video and I get to share the revenue. I’m assuming that’s how it works. So far the video has been viewed about 1200 times so I’m not retiring anytime soon from it. I’ll keep you up to date though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-9ni2Lof1I

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