How to Protect Gear to shoot while Fishing?

I will soon get the opportunity to fish (Salmon and Steelhead) and shoot
pictures that could be used in a magazine. This brings up an interesting
question... what is the best way to protect your gear so you could fish and
still flip over to shooting shots with your expensive gear and not mess it
up.

Any advice for shooting on a boat... thinking of using 28-135 mm lens with
IS and a circular polarizer filter.

"Jim Johnson" <JimJohnson@att.net> writes:
> I will soon get the opportunity to fish (Salmon and Steelhead) and shoot
> pictures that could be used in a magazine. This brings up an interesting
> question... what is the best way to protect your gear so you could fish and
> still flip over to shooting shots with your expensive gear and not mess it up.

If you're shooting for a magazine and trying to get the best possible
shots, you might ask yourself how a professional does it. If you want
to use a pro approach, then take the view you're doing the shooting as
work, not as recreation, so about trying to take pictures and fish at
the same time. Concentrate on the photography and let someone else do
the fishing while you take pictures. If you want to do it as
recreation and both shoot and fish, then that's ok, but that trade-off
will show up in the photographic results.

Aside from that, the obvious measures include things like underwater
camera housings, which cost a lot by amateur standards but which would
seem to be indispensible for professionals. Aside from that, you can
get waterproof equipment cases from Otter, Pelican, etc. that are
affordable, or just use those Ewa-Marine soft enclosures or even big
Ziploc bags if you're on the cheap. Finally there are a fair number
of water-resistant cameras, though not yet any equivalent of the
Nikonos as far as I know.

On Jan 8, 12:21 am, "Jim Johnson" <JimJohn...@att.net> wrote:
> I will soon get the opportunity to fish (Salmon and Steelhead) and shoot
> pictures that could be used in a magazine. This brings up an interesting
> question... what is the best way to protect your gear so you could fish and
> still flip over to shooting shots with your expensive gear and not mess it
> up.
>
> Any advice for shooting on a boat... thinking of using 28-135 mm lens with
> IS and a circular polarizer filter.

While kayaking I use a dry bag to hold my D200 and lenses. Altrec has
one that opens on the long side so you don't have a deep cylinder to
reach into. Works but if you want to fish and photograph, don't know
how you can keep the camera dry and get the pics you want. I second
Paul with concentrate on the photography, have someone else do the
fishing, or you do the fishing and have someone else do the
photography. I have learned that I can't paddle and take pictures at
the same time.

Tom

In article <7xhcv2cc1j.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin
<http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:

> "Jim Johnson" <JimJohnson@att.net> writes:
> > I will soon get the opportunity to fish (Salmon and Steelhead) and shoot
> > pictures that could be used in a magazine. This brings up an interesting
> > question... what is the best way to protect your gear so you could fish and
> > still flip over to shooting shots with your expensive gear and not mess it
> > up.
>
> If you're shooting for a magazine and trying to get the best possible
> shots, you might ask yourself how a professional does it. If you want
> to use a pro approach, then take the view you're doing the shooting as
> work, not as recreation, so about trying to take pictures and fish at
> the same time. Concentrate on the photography and let someone else do
> the fishing while you take pictures. If you want to do it as
> recreation and both shoot and fish, then that's ok, but that trade-off
> will show up in the photographic results.
>
> Aside from that, the obvious measures include things like underwater
> camera housings, which cost a lot by amateur standards but which would
> seem to be indispensible for professionals. Aside from that, you can
> get waterproof equipment cases from Otter, Pelican, etc. that are
> affordable, or just use those Ewa-Marine soft enclosures or even big
> Ziploc bags if you're on the cheap. Finally there are a fair number
> of water-resistant cameras, though not yet any equivalent of the
> Nikonos as far as I know.

Don't forget to get insurance on all your equipmment. There are so
many ways to trash your equipment on a boat that it would be hard to
list them all.

Where ya gonna be?

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