Picture from the weekend - 4

The image I have chosen for this weeks picture from the weekend, comes from our long suffering shoot with our 9 year old model, the one who claims he will become famous... which is now probably true. This gorgeous boy is my nephew and belongs to my sister and brother-in-law, and all throughout his life, has been used by default for photo shoots, tea making, dish-taking to the kitchen etc etc, you catch my drift.

The idea for this part of the shoot, was to try and get him coming out of the water, and catching the photograph just at the right point where there is still a layer of water film around him. Penny Haynes type of style...

This is roughly what the shoot sounded like:
"ok, now i want you to go under the water, and come up slowly"
*Garion goes under the water and comes up slowly... only problem is, only his forehead and half his eyes are out the water*
See Exhibit A:

Ok, so that didnt work out so well....

"no, not like that, i want you to go under the water and come up a little quicker and in one motion (photographer motions with hands on how to go under and back up)               

*Garion goes under the water and SHOOTS up causing massive splashes, ripples and the photographer to cut half his head off*

See Exhibit B:

                           

Right, so then we have to adjust our thinking.... and decide to go with the continuous shooting option and just hope and pray that we get the shot. Not always ideal for someone wanting to call themselves a photographer, but as the novelty for our youngster model was wearing off, we had to do something drastic to get the shot.

Here is the final shot below, not 100% my vision, but I definitely think it came out well and is pretty awesome!

Thoughts and comments welcome!

Love you my little monster and thank you!

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