There's little doubt most of these fish were comparably bright. But this has become a
fish PICTURE contest. Angles, lighting, and focus have so much to do with the pic results.
Bob really has the angles down; and the flash on his camera must be 10,000 candle power
they make the fish look brighter than in real life.

Keith, in your new ones just above, the first one is as chrome as they get, but it lacks the
angle to best reflect the brightness and light. I think even on sunny days that those using
the flash to 'fill and highlight' are doing it right. Your second one has the right light on
the side but the belly on that one isn't gleaming snow white like most of your other fish.

TH, your chromer isn't squared enough to the camera so the glare took out the back and lateral line contrast. And it would really help these threads to downsize the pics before posting them. It saves download time and server space; and won't cause having to scroll acoss to read - like in this paragraph. Besides, downsizing actually adds better clarity and brightness to a fish pic. That is one really nice fish though!

StorminN, I was able to click on your posted url and saw your pics, which are very good.

Those are the professional picture opinions of "Ebert and Hanson". ... Naah, just my
opinions based on seeing so many fish pics, and talking to guys who actually know their
stuff with photography - which I don't. We need 'fishead5' (Doug the pro photog)
to check in with in his opinions.

RT

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