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t was day five in Captain Sams Inlet, and things weren’t going well. After filming dolphin
for two months, we narrowed it down to this week as the best moment to get our most
important and powerful shots for a multi-year National Geographic documentary series.
It’s a gamble that so far was not paying off!
We secured the use of a challenging high-speed camera that is painfully difficult to operate and
costs an absolute fortune to rent. It can film over 1,000 frames per second and makes stunning
images, but it is possibly the most clumsy tool for wildlife filmmaking ever created. But slowing
down those initial moments in a strand was essential to the sequence if we were to fully witness
the unfolding drama, and this was the highest quality camera available.
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