Fishing with a camera
For Mother's Day, I took my wife up to Pine Mountain Lake for the weekend. We rented a cabin on the water and checked out the area. Since it was her weekend, I left my fishing gear at home (except my Pentax Optio WP waterproof fishing camera).
Sunday morning, while everybody was grabbing a shower or sleeping in a bit, I went down to the dock and checked out the early morning activity.
Thanks to my polarized sunglasses, I could easily see more than a dozen fish in the water near the dock. I laid down on the dock's deck where I could reach the water.
I stuck the camera in the water hoping to get lucky if I waited a while. Imagine my surprise when, despite the camera beeping as I periodically focused it to prevent it from turning itself off, several of the small fish came right up to check out the shiny silver thing in their playground.
They got close enough that I had to switch to macro mode. Because the camera was held under water and my head was still on the dock, I couldn't really see what the camera was pointed out. All I could do was guess, and shoot repeatedly.
Here are some of the better shots. No editing (yet)...just showing what the camera can do underwater when the bluegill come right up to say, "hi".
That last one was taken with the fish maybe an inch or two from the lens looking right into the camera.
Sunday morning, while everybody was grabbing a shower or sleeping in a bit, I went down to the dock and checked out the early morning activity.
Thanks to my polarized sunglasses, I could easily see more than a dozen fish in the water near the dock. I laid down on the dock's deck where I could reach the water.
I stuck the camera in the water hoping to get lucky if I waited a while. Imagine my surprise when, despite the camera beeping as I periodically focused it to prevent it from turning itself off, several of the small fish came right up to check out the shiny silver thing in their playground.
They got close enough that I had to switch to macro mode. Because the camera was held under water and my head was still on the dock, I couldn't really see what the camera was pointed out. All I could do was guess, and shoot repeatedly.
Here are some of the better shots. No editing (yet)...just showing what the camera can do underwater when the bluegill come right up to say, "hi".
That last one was taken with the fish maybe an inch or two from the lens looking right into the camera.
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Speaking of polarized sunglasses... I put a polarizer filter on a telephoto lens the other day and shot me a fish while standing on the shore.
Look how small those buggers are compared to the leaf on the bottom.
Regards,
-joel
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