Fever Fish Shots

Fever pose steps:

1. Get the guest to hold the rod under the armpit

2. Reel it in almost all the way


3. Pass them the lead weight and ask them to “hold it tight and dont let go”


4. Frame the shot to tell the right story “I caught this fish on a kayak”

5. Take in 16mm wide angle

Framing the shot check points

• Include the kayak: make sure that you can see the ENTIRE chair of the subject.

• Rod: under the armpit and pointing towards the camera, this bring the fish as far away from the subject

• Fish: about half the height of the frame.

• Horizon: 1/3 rule

• 16mm wide again

• Taken 45° from the front

Check Points

• Line is reeled in all the way, there should be a bent in the rod

• Holding only the sinker and not the line

• Rod is pointing towards the camera

• The fish is nice and far away from the body

• The hand is behind the fish and not above the fish (relative to the camera)

Boga pose steps:

1. Hold the boga at a 90 degree angle (use the fish to hide as much of the hand and boga

2. Push the fish out all the way to the camera

3. Frame the shot to tell the story “big fish on a kayak”

4. Take in 16mm wide angle

Framing the shot check points

• Include the kayak: make sure that you can see the ENTIRE chair of the subject.

• Boga and hand: hidden behind the fish

• Fish: about half or more than half the height of the frame.

• Horizon: 1/3 rule

• Taken 45° from the side

Boga pose steps:

1. Hold the boga at a 90 degree angle (use the fish to hide as much of the hand and boga

2. cradle the fish with the finger tips, hide as much of the fingers as possible.

3. Take in 16mm wide angle

Framing the shot check points

• Include the kayak: make sure that you can see the ENTIRE chair of the subject.

• Boga and finger: hidden behind the fish

• Fish: about 3/4 the length of the frame.

• Horizon: 1/3 rule

• Taken 45° from the side or from the front

Boga pose steps:

1. hold the fish like a rifle

2. Take in 16mm wide angle

Framing the shot check points

• Include the kayak: make sure that you can see the ENTIRE chair of the subject.

• Fish: about 1/2 to 3/4 the length of the frame.

• Horizon: 1/3 rule

• Taken 45° from the side

Boga pose steps:

1. point the fish right at the camera

2. put the fish as close to the camera

3. Take in 16mm wide angle

Framing the shot check points

• The focus is on the eyes of the fish

• 16mm, camera just above the water line

• Taken 90° from the side

• Getting the guest to do stupid shit like that usually get a good laugh out of them.

• Make sure your camera is ready to capture these moments

• Can be taken in any zoom 16mm to 50mm

• Taken 90° from the side

• Let the first person hold the fish, the pose is similar to Classic pose with rod or clasic boga pose

• Important: Get the person at the back to scoot as close to the person in front as possible.

• Take in 16mm wide angle

• Taken 45° from the side

• Let the first person hold the fish, the pose is similar to Classic pose with rod or clasic boga pose

• Important: Get the person at the back to scoot as close to the person in front as possible.

• Take in 16mm wide angle

• Taken 45° from the side

• Let the first person hold the fish, the pose is similar to Classic pose with rod or clasic boga pose

• Important: Get the person at the back to scoot as close to the person in front as possible.

• Take in 16mm wide angle

• Taken 45° from the side

• On the rare occasions when someone catches 2 good size fish, get them to take a photo with both the fish to show it off.

• One fish on the rod, 1 fish on the boga

• Take in 16mm wide angle

• Taken 45° from the side

• If there are some Tao Pao worthy fish at the end of the trip, that can also be use as the prop

• Because there’s a fish in this image, and we want the fish to look big, we use 16mm wide

• Put the Fishes in a clear space (white sky to contrast with the fish) so that the fishes are clearly visible.

• Take in 16mm wide

• There are many variation of kiss the fish

• Lips to lips

• Or just like this image here

• Take in 16mm -50mm

• Using both hands adds more impact to the photo, like they are really going to eat it already

• Take in 16mm -50mm

• It will be the firs time for many of our guest to hold a live fish, so let them hold a little chocolate, they will remember that for life

• you can get them to lip the fish or just hold it in the palm of their hands

• A Great way to engage with kids too

• Take in 16mm -50mm

• It will be the firs time for many of our guest to hold a live fish, so let them hold a little chocolate, they will remember that for life

• you can get them to lip the fish or just hold it in the palm of their hands

• A Great way to engage with kids too

• Take in 16mm -50mm

• A fun way to get some real candid smiles and laughter

• Take in 16mm -50mm

• The fish Moustache

• Take in 50mm full zoom

• When you have 2 chocolate at the same time, you can try this stupid one, sure to get a nice laugh from the guests

• Sometimes, the best way to capture this shot is to fake it, when they get snagged, get them to lift the rod up a little can capture this shot from the side view to see the full rod bend.

• capturing the actual moment of a fight is possible too, you just need to be fast.

• Take in 50mm full zoom

• Taken 90° from the side

• This works well on a medium to big fish, when you can really see the rod bend

• you get get is from a low angle at 16mm to make the fish look big and also capture the full kayak and the subject

• you can also zoom in 50mm and capture the shot on the left.

• Taken 45° from the side

• This works well on a medium to big fish, when you can really see the rod bend

• Take in 50mm full zoom

• Take at 90° from the side

• Zoom on on interesting details about the fish like this eyes

• Zoom if its a rare fish, can capture the unique colours on the body

• Zoom in on the crazy looking teeth of a grouper

• zoom in on the jigs

• Capture details in 50mm zoom

• Take a variation of zoom for weird creatures that are caught.

• 16mm wide to 50mm zoom