Picture from the Weekend 8

I dont think we need many words for this one....

A SUPER HERO IS BORN

I absolutely love this, and all credit to him... this was one of his own ideas :)

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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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Week 5 : Underwater

Week 5, and we are really starting to get the hang of this and thoroughly enjoying the project!

Obviously when we see the weekly theme and start thinking about what kind of images we can shoot for it, you have this wonderful idea and a vision in your head of how you would like the image to come out... that's exactly how we were.

So, we enlisted the services of our 9 year old model, and off to the swimming pool we went, with him stating he was now going to be famous! :)
The 1st 10-15min of the shoot went fantastically well, and then the bribery had to start as the novelty of this modelling thing wore off.
As with all types of photography, and especially when shooting with children, you have to adapt and change your plan as you go along, but luckily for us, I think the adjustments turned out pretty well...

This is what we got! Thank you monster for helping aunty out, and thanks to sis and bil, you guys ROCK!

Week 5 : Underwater

Comments and thoughts welcome!

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