DSLR, Phone or both
Photography
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Interested to know how many folks on here are using DSLR's for your trophy shots or have you gone down the route of phone images only.
Personally I like to take my shots with the DSLR but also try to run the phone in video mode as a back up should I ever have an issue with the camera.
I understand that a lot of people have come away from DSLR's as they don't like lugging the extra kit around. I just don't think you can beat a DSLR for the quality of shot you can get though in comparison to even the best phone cameras
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Photography is a secondary passion, plenty of time to do it when fishing so I have a very good bridge camera with a 600mm zoom.
I always use this in conjunction with an intervalometer for all trophy shots.
I guess I would be happy using a phone for daytime shots given the quality of phone cameras these days. I saw a recommendation recently regarding iphones and using portrait mode. the later iphones allow depth of field adjustment to the photos after the event.
Night shots I'm not so sure about. Dont think the phone flash would be up to the job. I'm interested in the led lighting options available now as they give much more depth to a night shot but have no experience with them yet. Also its something else to lug around :)
Given one of the lakes I fish, I'm fishing for a once in a lifetime fish so would always use my main camera should I eventually grind it into submission :) - Photography is a secondary passion, plenty of time to do it when fishing so I have a very good bridge camera with a 600mm zoom. I always use this in...
The introduction of the remote intervelometer into my photography was a game changer. The main benefit being you can set up with number of shots and time between shots just makes self takes so much less effort and so much more efficient to be able to get the fish back quickly.
I use a small 64 LED Godox light, mounted on a separate lightweight tripod for my night shots, which to be honest I'm still playing about with and trying to find the balance between compact lighting solutions but also have enough light for depth of shot.
One of my friends produces night shots as good as his day shots but takes a studios worth of lighting and remote flash kit, which is great with a power barrow but not so much when you're a portalite barrow user 😊I've actually pulled stills off the phone video clips which people have said are great pictures until they see the difference between those and the DSLR shots.
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Interested to see the 64 LED Godox light when we finally bump into each other
