Whale and shark photo tour: Does anyone have any advice about equipment to take on a photo shoot/Photoshop excursion in Provincetown, MA? Most of the trip will be on the water but also...

nickims2 Loc: Mississippi currently

Does anyone have any advice about equipment to take on a photo shoot/Photoshop excursion in Provincetown, MA? Most of the trip will be on the water but also they will take us around in dune buggys to tour the area beaches and towns. I have a Tamron 18-270 and also a Canon 75-300 (with no IS). I also have numerous other lenses but I am thinking I can get away with only the one Tamron. I don't know whether to take a tripod- would the Tamron be sufficient without one since it has IS? I know a super zoom would be the best solution in the ocean scenario, but alas, I can't afford one yet. Any advice would be appreciated. Also, do I need waterproof bags for this sort of thing?
Thanks, Nicki

George H Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Nick,
I would surely recommend waterproof bags. Even just a little spray of salt water can do tremendous damage. If you can afford to buy one get a bag that has a shooting port built into it, expensive but worth it in the long run. Hell of a lot less than buying either a camera or lens.

Have fun, hope you see lots of whales and Great Whites.

mafadecay Loc: Wales UK

I would take some great big electric power cables, hand grenades, harpoon guns and oxygen tanks coupled with flares. Have you never seen Jaws? Oh and you are gonna need a bigger boat! Everybody out of the water.

Rolltide1949 Loc: Ocala,FL

I have not,had much luck using a tripod in a rocking boat on a lake...suspect the waves there will be higher and you may be able to steady the camera by hand better,using a fast shutter speed.
Enjoy your trip...it's a nice place to visit
Roll Tide

Rolltide1949 Loc: Ocala,FL

I have not,had much luck using a tripod in a rocking boat on a lake...suspect the waves there will be higher and you may be able to steady the camera by hand better,using a fast shutter speed.
Enjoy your trip...it's a nice place to visit
Roll Tide

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

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I'd take some sort of weather protection, and I'd figure on not changing lenses, to much bad stuff in the air that could get into the camera, Bob.

14kphotog Loc: Marietta, Ohio

mafadecay wrote:

I would take some great big electric power cables, hand grenades, harpoon guns and oxygen tanks coupled with flares. Have you never seen Jaws? Oh and you are gonna need a bigger boat! Everybody out of the water.

Sounds like CLUCK, cluck, cluck, Been in water with sharks at non feeding areas. NO FEAR !!!

George H Loc: Brooklyn, New York

mafadecay wrote:

I would take some great big electric power cables, hand grenades, harpoon guns and oxygen tanks coupled with flares. Have you never seen Jaws? Oh and you are gonna need a bigger boat! Everybody out of the water.

Well since I was in the dive industry and also shot for the NY Zoological Society, I happen to have know Peter Benchley and Stan Waterman the Cinematographer for the movie Jaws. Peter regrets ever writting it and Stan and anyone that has ever been in the water with Great Whites promotes saving them. There is nothing as majestic and graceful as the swimming shark, gorgeous animals.

George

mafadecay Loc: Wales UK

I am personally terrified of water so for me the thought of one of natures most capable predators scares the S--- out of me. I wont even sleep with an arm or a leg out of the bed in case a shark gets me in the night and thats just plain psycho as I live no where near the coast and our waters are too cold for great whites anyway.

My comment before maybe let me down once again as my humour does not seem to flow well on here.

nickims2 Loc: Mississippi currently

Not to worry...I took it as humor even is some others didn't. Yes, I saw Jaws and had nightmares for weeks! I can only hope that the boat we are on is a really big one! My concern is that the wimpy lens I have well not be enough to catch anything (unless it is jumping in the boat). May consider renting a lens - has anyone ever done that?

Fathed Loc: Virginia Dale, Colorado

I just rented two lenses ( please don't correct my spelling if two lens is not spelled this way ) from lensrentals.com. I was very pleased with the whole process. It was my first time renting and it could not have been easier. I rented a 11-16 Tokina and the 70-200 Nikon. The waves and rocking boat will make a tripod useless. Good luck!

mafadecay Loc: Wales UK

Fathed wrote:

I just rented two lenses ( please don't correct my spelling if two lens is not spelled this way ) from lensrentals.com. I was very pleased with the whole process. It was my first time renting and it could not have been easier. I rented a 11-16 Tokina and the 70-200 Nikon. The waves and rocking boat will make a tripod useless. Good luck!

Curious to why you wouldn't want to be corrected if wrong. My spelling is bad and I welcome correction so next time I can spell it correctly. Lenses is plural for lens but one lens can also be spelled lense with an "e". What you said in the brackets was slightly incorrect because 2 lens is plural and would be 2 lenses. But seen as you were using it for description gives you poetic licence making it right.

Besides all this what did you make of the 11-16mm Tokina and was it on a crop or full frame body?

George H Loc: Brooklyn, New York

mafadecay wrote:

I am personally terrified of water so for me the thought of one of natures most capable predators scares the S--- out of me. I wont even sleep with an arm or a leg out of the bed in case a shark gets me in the night and thats just plain psycho as I live no where near the coast and our waters are too cold for great whites anyway.

My comment before maybe let me down once again as my humour does not seem to flow well on here.

Well I don't really know if the cables would work, sleeping with a foot exposed I doubt would tempt them, as for cold water, I live in NYC and we have them off the coast here so the water temp probably would not deter them. But your paranoia, is just that Psycho. LOL

mafadecay Loc: Wales UK

George H wrote:

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Im sure I heared a couple of years ago some were spotted off the coast here. Now you have gone and taken away my safety blanket. I thought if a shark bites a live power line would almost certainly work like the movie. Suppose I can stop sleeping with mains cables under my pillow now. Another movie that added to my nightmares was deep blue sea. Its not just sharks though any movie about killer fish scares me. Piranha scared me also. But I love vampire films lol.

Larrie Loc: NE Ohio

Take warm outerwear. It may be 80 degrees in port but out on the water it will be closer to 50 to 60 degrees. By the way you chronic mis-spellers, go to iespell.com and download their free spell checker for IE