Backup and workflow considerations for professional wildlife photographers.

I’ve written (and routinely update) this article so that (1) it’s easy to refer people with questions about the gear I use, and how I set it up, and (2) I can remember what settings I use, too.

Of the 7,998 photos I took with the 200-600 mm shots in Kruger (excluding those taken with the 1.4x teleconverter, discussed below), 6,930 (87%) were at focal lengths from 404-600 mm. The extra reach over the 100-400 mm was definitely useful, and I used it a lot.

I’ve just been testing and refining my gear configuration for macro, so I thought it’d be useful for Future Simon – and hopefully you too – to write up some notes on underwater macro photography with the Sony A7rIII camera, Sony 90 mm macro lens, and Nauticam NA-A7RIII housing.

I’ve been using the Sony FE 90 mm G OSS macro lens as my go-to underwater macro photography lens since late 2018. I really enjoy using it – with the exception of poor autofocus in low light underwater using the Sony A7rIII, which I rant about in great detail here.

Bored of simply trying to take good photos, with complicated equipment, while lying suspended in thick liquid, within an unbreathable, alien environment? Don’t worry, I have a solution. We’ll do all of the above… at night. Also, let’s add a thick mask filter so you can’t see properly.

Plastic in the ocean is a problem. That will be news to precisely none of you. It’s still worth talking about though, even now. Plastic is an obvious part of all of our lives and, despite the global scale of the concern, it’s one of the most immediately actionable marine conservation issues.