Grace Underwater - Extras (Patreon)

This set of 35 hi-res images is now in the massive Archive folder available to $25 Patrons - consider subscribing at that level for access to literally thousands of images and videos.

Sometimes when I am shooting I get really fixated on one moment and shoot a ton of images observing the same scene, probably TOO many images.  Grace was not doing anything more than practicing sinking and sitting calmly beneath the surface, but I love everything about it in that moment - the contrast of colors between her tan skin and the dark blue of the pool, the shadows of the water caustics dancing on her skin, the strange, distorted reflections of her face on the undersurface of the water, and just the look of her face underwater (most people's face look strange underwater, and perhaps less "beautiful" than they do on land, but Grace's facial beauty held strong underwater - I still have yet to figure out the formula that predicts whether someone's face will look lovely underwater or not).

I did, however, manage to pull myself out of that moment and run Grace through some of my other underwater series, such as my "Sinking in Bubbles" images, and also my "Halo" series - where I basically have the model swim normally at the surface and I try to swim upside down with my camera rig and try to line the model up between the sun and me (which basically blinds me constantly, making it difficult to see anything or line the model up properly, not to mention the pain from all the water rushing into my sinuses due to being upside down) in order to try and capture this kind of image that I always love of rays of sunlight radiating out around the model on all sides, especially if I can get the sun right behind her head.