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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Tompot Blenny

These little Tompot Blennies were photographed under Swanage Pier.  I was using a 105mm macro lens which has a closest focus distance of about two feet.  One little blenny, with a real bouncer-like attitude, found that if he swam closer to me than two feet I would back off.  I kept moving backwards because he was too close and out of focus but he seemed to take delight in 'chasing' me away...

I went to Swange with my diving photographer friend, Linda Pitkin, whose work I really admire http://lindapitkin.net  Thanks for a lovely day Linda and for two really fun dives :-)

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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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Matt

It was time to experiment with a new black background, and so here are some underwater portraits of Matthew Clarke.

You're a super cool underwater model Matt....


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Underwater Portaiture

Here are some underwater portraits of Dominic Colenso

Thanks Dominic :-)

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