Like Dan would say, I'm not a pro fish pic critic but I slept at a Best Western last night so I can play one on a fishing BB.
OK Todd, the background is really nice and your mug is fine. It's the fish. The top one is angled with the belly toward you and the top/back angled away from you. That is one of the angles that causes a missed opportunity to get the best light reflection off the bright fish scales on the side and highlight a white belly. That fish is obviously mint bright, but this is about fish pictures. Check out the mint bright fish that caught the right light angles among my long 'favorites' posts, and go back and compare to your bright fish - big difference in bright light reflection. The lower one is a big bruiser buck steelie - a nice catch for sure. But is simply is not a bright chromer. Keith set this whole thing to be 'bright fish pics'. I wish I could fish that river though!
How about some more people voting in their top 3 pics in the 2 catagories?!? If better pics come along later you can edit your votes, or re-vote in a new post later. We need to see which pics are the ones to beat, and I'm the only one who voted so far. Need lots of votes. I'd like to put the winners in STS mag.
[ 11-16-2001: Message edited by: RT i ]