Underwater Sax

Gerard Gregg-Smith is a tenor saxophonist who plays at the jazz club that takes place every Thursday evening at the Charing Cross Sports Club in Hammersmith.

Gerard dressed in a suit jacket and shirt, played a saxophone underwater - and looks so cool :-)  

Underwater Portraiture 30th January 2011

On Jan 30th, following a short piece in a local paper and few posters that I had put up around the Charing Cross Sports Club, I photographed ten people underwater in three groups.  Apart from working for baby swim schools, this was the first time I had offered underwater portrait photography to the public.

The first session had been booked by a family of five, who really got into the spirit of an underwater photoshoot, which produced really fun family portraits. 

 

 

Then it was the turn of two young twins and their baby sister.  The boys just wanted to have fun, diving to the bottom and playing underwater....

For the last session, I had three beautiful synchronised swimmers to photograph.  The girls had come very prepared with several changes of outfit and a clear idea of the kind of poses they wanted to do. 

Thank you to everyone who I photographed that day and to my assistant Charlotte....

Baby Portraiture

Recently I photographed lots of tiny babies for Aquatots, a really cool baby swim school based in Cheltenham  http://www.aquatots.co.uk/  We hired a pool and spent several hours photographing little babies.  It was magical to see how they responded to being submersed for a few seconds, mostly relaxing and looking very comfortable being underwater.  All the babies had been attending Aquatots swimming lessons and had practiced submersions before, so it wasn't new to them.

After setting up my underwater studio in the pool, expert baby swim teacher, Fiona Munt-Whittle, carefully placed each baby in turn into the water in-front of me.  Previous baby photography sessions had left me feeling a little rejected as most babies burst into tears when they saw my diving mask and big underwater camera.  So this time I attached windmills and small toys to my camera and strobes, which definitely helped :-)

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Gui

Having invested in another very expensive underwater strobe with off camera cabling it was time to test my new piece of equipment. Gui Pinto offered to model for me and once my underwater studio was set up, we had about fifteen minutes to get these pictures. Thanks Gui - you're a great model and I'm looking forward to doing some more portraits with you...

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Con the Builder.....

Well it was Conrad Mitchel's turn to try his hand at posing underwater.  A former builder, Con was keen to don his builders kit and get wet - thanks Con :-)

 

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Chris and Mike Shaw - Underwater

This week Chris and Mike Shaw go underwater for the latest underwater portraits....

Thanks guys :-)

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