Robin Fisher is a versatile, early-career Wildlife & Documentary camera operator working topside and Underwater. 

His experience makes him capable of filming full long-lens and wildlife sequences for small to medium productions, or as a second camera capacity on larger blue-chip productions.

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​He is experienced filming with CN20 50-1000mm and RED rigs, Phantom 4K flex long lens and macro rigs and proficient with using sliders, gimbals and drones for landscapes. Underwater, he has filmed with RED Gemini rigs and owns a Sony a7siii Nauticam rig. He is proficient in the STO of Gates Underwater Housings including in the use and setup of systems such as the RED V-Raptor.

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Since 2024 he has filmed wildlife sequences for 'Wild Philippines', a three part Blue Chip Natural History Documentary, commissioned by Terra Mater and Blue Ant Media/Love Nature. Robin became seasoned in long lens hide work including remote canopy access to film sequences of a Philippine Eagle nest, Philippine Crocodiles and flying lemurs. Robin also shot hybrid adding an underwater element to topside shoots. Notable examples were shooting a sequence of a Philippine Crocodile underwater, and banded sea kraits on a remote island. Robin also filmed various macro, nestbox and night shoots, most notably a sequence of a tarsier mother and baby.

Since then, Robin has operated in a run and gun capacity  shooting drone, topside and underwater (occasionally all at the same time) for Atlantic Shark Expeditions and for a Sharkweek talent-led documentary about white sharks in Canada (in post prod.).

 

​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. 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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