Erin Ranney is a wildlife camerawoman based in Alaska and Washington State and she also has temporary residency in the Falkland Islands. Erin has a variety of remote field experience, both on boats and land, and has set up and run remote field camps in Alaska. 

After finishing her Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Ecology at Washington State University and working as a field technician in the rainforests of Madagascar, Erin completed her Masters in Wildlife Documentary Production in England. She then began interning with Mark Emery Films and assisting cameramen in the field.

Erin now works as a camerawoman for companies such as the BBC, PBS, Smithsonian, and the National Geographic Channel.  She worked on a children’s conservation series for CBBC that she both filmed and hosted. Schoolyard Films’, "In the Wild… with Bears” showcases her talents as a cinematographer and a guide.

As well as filming wildlife on land, Erin is also a deep-sea video engineer. She originally trained during an internship with Dr. Robert Ballard’s exploration vessel, Nautilus, controlling the live cameras on ROVs at depths of 4000 meters.

Erin is a third generation commercial fisherwoman on the largest sockeye salmon run in the world and still runs a commercial set net fishing operation in Bristol Bay Alaska.

She is a trained guide and naturalist in bear country and has consulted with production companies for Alaska based films. She is also an FAA certified drone pilot, a certified Wilderness First Responder and BSAC certified SCUBA diver.