SFBAYIMAGES.com on the San Francisco Bay provides marine film services in the San Francisco Bay and Beyond. Below are some pictures of a documentary being filmed with an image stabilizer and crew in the tricky waters of the Gulf of the Farallones. Image Stabilizer is an understatement. Below you will see pictured an industrial strength Mako-Head marine film stabilizer.
Camera: Sony F900 HD.
Client: Preeminent Nature Documentary Producer.
Crew: Excluding Client, Guests and "Talent"
Director of Photography/Camera Operator
1st Camera Assistant
2nd Camera Assistant
Sound
Production Coordinator
B Camera Operator - (with Hand Held Gyros)
Director/Producer
(3)Production Assistants

Boat Captain
Deck hand
Still Photographer
Marine Biologist
Craft Services

Crew, Equipment and Boat provided by SFBAYIMAGES.com. To assist the client, the expenses were offset by inviting SF Bay area professional photographers to pay for passage with us. We would like to thank all of the photographers who participated.


Marine Mako-Head Image Stabilizer being used at the Farallon
Islands on a Nature Documentary. On location sound for interviews, nature sounds and an attempt at recording from an underwater hydro-phone. On other trips
we have captured incredible underwater marine mammal "communications". This trip we had spectacular breaching whales, but no underwater sounds.




Marine Mako-Head Image Stabilizer being used at the Farallon
Islands on a Nature Documentary.






Humpback Whale Breaching, Farallon
Islands.






Checking the footage on the monitor tap.






Camera on the Bow.






Thom Miller with the camera on the Bow.






Marine Biologist, Carol Kieper, on the left talking with the producer/director. Carol was the naturalist onboard identifying the marine wildlife.






Hand Held Gyro Stablilizers.






Hand Held Gyro Stablilizers.





Field Producer. Camera mounted on mako-head secured on platform on the stern.