I say almost, because while it's fairly comfortable when the vessel you're on is cruising, it's something else altogether when it's stationary and rocking wildly.
Especially when you're trying to frame a 30-tonne yacht that's coming at you at 25 knots through a camera viewfinder. Somehow the eye and middle ear conspire to trick the tummy into thinking it's been put in a bag and churned wildly.
Avomin, for the record, only seems to make things worse...
Fortunately, the challenge here wasn't so much the task of dealing with imminent sea-sickness. But the job of producing a shot, at twilight when all the lights in the Singapore skyline were on, along with setting off a bunch of strobes via radio. And trying to make sure the whole kit kaboodle came out sharp.
Fortunately a combination of high ISO, a camera platform that was a modified barge, and some daredevil runs by a certain almost-heroic Italian captain did the trick. In the end though, we put everything in the computer to even out the color grade and construction mess that speckled the waterline. So much for getting it all done in one go; but at least we tried...
I'd like to do this shot again with a larger yacht than the 63 footer here.
As soon as my stomach stops churning from the memory of the aforementioned experience.
