With little convincing from a couple of photography friends I made some inquiries into picking myself up a GoPro Hero cam and am stoked with the outcome. As an extremely amateur underwater photographer and neglectful camera owner this is the perfect go-any-where-strap-to-anything cam.
And of course the first thing we strapped it to in this family was Bernini, a black labrador which captured us some funny vid of him jumping into the lake at the back of house. I’m hoping it will find me some good shots, like this one of Bernini at the beach, for a story I’m shooting that involves dogs and maybe a few odd looks from the folks who come across Bernini-Cam.
The little cam was also strapped to a mast during the King’s Cup Regatta in Thailand when hubby was sailing and the vid quality is very nice indeed. It is definitely coming in handy at home as we have a kid who has discovered the expensive and not a little bit terrifying sport of wake boarding, and we have attached it to the front of the board with some success. Although the wake board isn’t quite long enough really to get the camera far enough back from the user for the best shot. I reckon the best images are yet to come and will probably be from a jet ski shooting with the cam alongside the boarder. Sadly a GoPro was lost to the brown waters of the Coomera River recently when one of the fixings broke on a jump, but by that time we were so sold on the little cams, we had already bought another so now we’re down to one.
I’m looking forward to taking the little sucker to greater depths when I participate in an underwater photography short course being run by my mate Seanna Cronin soon.
Bernini through the lens of our GoPro hero.