Try posting that in the spearfishing forum...
Do photographers inadvertently harass marine life?
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Try posting that in the spearfishing forum...
SMH
Darnold9999
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My best photographs and video tend to happen when I figure out where the creature I want to photograph is going to be and I go there. My best manta video is one of a manta going from diver to diver along a ridge having a close look at each. But for her knowing exactly where her body was she would have hit me. She just wanted to see the new creature in her world. Same with a morey - out of its den swam directly to me and passed within an inch or two of the camera. Learned this trying to get turtle shots a very long time ago. Chasing them never works. Have I stressed out a creature by flashing lights in its eyes - of course. But I try to do as little damage as possible to the world I am visiting.
Macro and Zoom lens aren't the same. Macro are actually used for getting closer or even super close to the subject and have the ability to focus very close and creating 1:1 image size for the subject.
Zoom lens just have the ability to change the focal length of the lens over a certain range. What you are actually thinking of are the "Telephoto" lens which aren't used underwater.
No problem as animal harassment has no part in responsible and respectful hunting. A responsible and good hunter has a great deal of respect for the animal they kill for sustenance. Any amount of suffering is regretted and avoided at all cost.
Dunno dude, I would rather be hit with a strobe than a spear.
I have a lot of respect for the animals that model for me. The hunters are better people because they kill the fish after startling it?
Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with hunting. Just not sure where all this shade being thrown at photographers is coming from.
Robot induced hate wave...
Keep in mind that most animals are constantly aware that other animals want to eat them. Divers trying to take their picture instead of having them for lunch hardly compares.
Catito
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You all are too perfect. The photographers I have observed are not. In fact, on Saturday, two terrible ones on our boat crashing into everything to get a photo of a filefish or something as mundane. I am going to start videotaping these divers and start a wall of shame. Maybe then you will believe me. Horrific.
Darnold9999
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So you take video, must be a terrible diver then??? Don’t disbelieve you at all. I have seen the same. But that is not restricted to photographers. Worst diver I ever saw was an older gentleman - think grizzled marine seargent - long time diver(according to him) lay down in a coral bed to look at something and instead of breathing in to ascend just kicked the crap out of the coral. A cloud of debris came up with him.
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