Robin Fisher is a wildlife camera operator specialising in long lens topside as well as underwater camerawork. Having previously filmed an award-winning natural history film about kingfishers which featured on BBC Springwatch, he has spent the last year working as a freelance camera operator/assistant working on a production for Terra Mater in the Philippines. During this time he has garnered a wide set of skills including filming at height and canopy access rope skills in order to film a philippine eagle nest, as well as night shoots filming tarsiers, and underwater shooting skills filming reef-scapes, turtles, thresher sharks, whale sharks and philippine crocodiles both topside and underwater. He is versatile, skilled at fieldcraft, knowledgeable about natural history and passionate about the field.

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Topside, he is experienced filming with CN20 50-1000mm and RED rigs, proficient with using sliders, gimbals and drones for landscapes. Underwater, he is capable in the STO of Gates Underwater Housings including in the use and setup of DSMC2 camera systems such as the RED V-Raptor.

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Robin has a background in Zoology, specialising in Marine Biology and shark behaviour. He has extensive in-water experience working with sharks and other marine life. He is an experienced free-diver and Scuba Diver. He holds his HSE Commercial Media IV Diver and has a PADI Rescue Diver and Drysuit qualification with approx 80 dives. He previously interned as a researcher in South Africa, studying ragged tooth sharks and white sharks. Subsequently, he published a research letters titled Possible causes of a substantial decline in sightings in South Africa of an ecologically important apex predator, the white shark.

 

Robin also completed an MA in Directing & Producing Science Natural History at the National Film & Television School, so whilst he specialises in camerawork, he is knowledgable about all aspects of filmmaking, from researching, pitching and pre-production, to logging and organising footage for the edit.

 

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