How to Photograph a Carp

I hope you enjoy this article and find some inspiration for your next photography journey!

One of the most beautiful moments after capturing is the photo, I think we all agree on that, right?

The photo serves to immortalize a moment that carries with it an incredible magic, the shot captures all the preparation for going fishing, all the time we waited before leaving and the whole fight.

Do you understand how important a correctly taken photo of our fish is?

We must therefore pay attention to that "click" almost as much as to the preparation of the material we take with us when fishing. When we press the shot button with our finger, we must be aware that that click will be the culmination of meticulous and painstaking work.

So having a cell phone in your pocket isn't enough to take decent photos, even if you paid €1000 for it. It doesn't matter, you need a camera.

The quality, the details, the color depth, the pixel density is completely different from a smartphone to a camera, yes, because in the end we must never forget that the smartphone is used to make calls :D, it's a joke logically, but deep down it carries with it a truth and now we are going to find out which one.

What interests us is the optics, the optics are the fundamental part of the camera we use, and this brings with it a series of characteristics that determine the quality of a shot, in this article we will focus on two characteristics, the main ones:

Aperture or Brightness: it is equal to the focal length divided by the maximum diameter of the lens diaphragm, for this reason it is indicated with the fraction symbol f/1.4.

So the brighter a lens is, the better it will give us excellent shots even in low ambient light conditions.

Lens Focal Length: It is a good thing to keep in mind that the human eye, that is what we see with our eyes every day, when compared to a photographic lens corresponds to a 50 mm, hence the basic rule applies:

shorter focal length = wide angle 17/24/36 etc. etc.

longer focal length = telephoto lenses 75/132/300 etc. etc.

The unit of measurement for focal length is mm.

So we come to the point where we're interested in how to take beautiful photos of the fish we catch.

To avoid distorting the image, we have understood that the focal length to use is 50mm. This is because the 50mm does not "distort" reality, the 50mm gives a 100% truthful image of what we frame. Taking an "original" shot home, developing it, storing it in your albums, and looking at it even years later will allow you to relive the exact same emotions experienced before that "click"!

We would like to thank Mattia Travasoni who, during one of his fishing sessions, kindly took pictures of the same carp with different lenses . You can clearly see the difference in the results from a 50mm to a 35mm:

Photo taken with a 50mm

Photo taken with a 35mm