[b]Here are a couple of variations, that I just posted on the Flymph forum,
they were quite well received.
I think I prefer the first, the sea-trout fly.
I was ‘Flying High’, my mp3 player was on Handel Piano Sonatas and
then on Art Tatum Group Masterpieces.
Hook: #4 low water salmon.
Thread: Uni 6/0 wine.
Tail: C.d.L. Hen fibres.
Tag & Rib: Silver wire.
Body: Claret Antron dub.
Thorax: As body + fluo red seal?s fur.
Hackle: C.d.L. Speckled hen.[/b]
I think a rib of silver oval tinsel would have been better on the salmon fly
I am using a Sony DSC-T50, which I have been using for a few years. It has an easy to use Macro and simple White Balance. I mostly set up the Macro and set the camera on incandescent for the White Balance. Two 50W lamps for illumination and a
coloured card, usually blue, for background. My camera is fixed on a mount for birdwatchers, camera/telescope.
The whole thing does not take above ten minutes to set up.
I looked into various camera set-ups via the inter-net but initially I tried the simplified version shown above.
It worked just fine and I have never really bothered to alter or improve (?) it.
My set-up, especially the camera, has been rather ‘looked down on’ by some, but it works for me and
the fly-dressing is my interest and main hobby not photography, although if the results had been very
bad, I would probably have complicated it a bit more.
One thing I do is use is ACDSee Pro3 to process the raw pictures. I crop them to a suitable size and then,
I use a white balance facility it has.
It can alter the colour of the picture, which I find easiest to use by making sure the back-ground blue looks
correct, to my eyes, and just hope the rest comes out ok. That is it. I don’t really want to go any further with the processing etc. Fly-dressing is a sufficiently obsessive
hobby for me.
