FISHEYE: A GUIDE TO ANGLING PHOTOGRAPHY. By Matt Hayes.

2012 1st edition. Large 4to (232 x 292mm). Pp200. Colour photographs by the author throughout. Grey boards, upper board and spine titled in silver-gilt.

"Matt Hayes has made more than fifteen series for Discovery television and has appeared in Angling Times for over twenty years. His photographs have been used in books and calendars, on the cover and in the pages of several angling catalogues, as Christmas cards and, of course in angling publications including Angling Times, the Times, Trout and Salmon, Trout Fisherman, Blinker, Beet, Improve Your Coarse Fishing and a host of other magazines." This is a detailed exposition of how to tackle photography, both of angling itself, and of the sort of situations which anglers find themselves in when pursuing their sport. Chapters include: The kit; Lenses; Taking good trophy shots; The keys to creative angling photography; Light and angling photography; Framing, composition and depth of field; Macro, candid, wild and still-life, abstract; Angling photography at the limits; Underwater photography; Night and low light photography in angling; Software, file formats and HDR; Making movies. Hundreds of pictures by Matt Hayes.