Portrait shoot ideas: cool off with water

Monday 12 June 2023, 20:10 by Elja Trum | 4,028 views | 2 comments

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The weather is quite warm today and for the next week. Almost too warm to go out taking photographs. You can of course adapt your portrait shoot to the warm weather. Here are a few ideas for a shoot on a hot day.

Find some water

If there is one thing that cools you down, it is water. Just being near water often makes things a bit more pleasant. So plan a shoot near the water.

Get in the water

Of course, you and your model do not necessarily have to photograph only beside the water. It is even better to get into the water as well.

You do need to be extra careful, of course. You do not want your camera to go under. Even if you do not go much further than knee-deep, it is wonderfully cooling.

Go underwater

Underwater photography is great fun. You can buy a housing for your camera so you can take photographs underwater with it too.

There are cheaper options as well, though. Smartphones are often quite waterproof these days. So you could try using your smartphone underwater. The quality is often perfectly good, especially because you will generally get very few truly sharp images underwater anyway.

I took the photograph below by placing my camera in a rectangular fishbowl and pushing it partly underwater. Put a towel in the bottom of the bowl to work more comfortably and to have something close at hand for removing any splashes straight away.

Create your own rain shower

We cannot really count on nature to provide a refreshing shower, but you can of course make one yourself.

The photograph below was taken indoors using a water container and a tube with holes in it, through which water flows. You can make it easier for yourself by using a garden sprinkler, for example.

No water container? A nice shady spot outside combined with a sprinkler can also produce great photographs.

Do you have any other fun ideas for combining water with your next portrait shoot? Let us know in the comments!

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