Underwater primary sources

This is one of my primary sources for the theme Earth, Air, Fire and Water. After exploring the topic of reflections further I became more interested and inspired by how water looks in reflected light. I found an artist named Elana Kalis who captures photographs from an underwater point of view with different themes in each. I like how an object or person can look completely different from an underwater perspective. I was very inspired by Elana's work so decided to try and take some of my own. I used a DSLR camera to take these photographs which I thought worked very well as I was able to capture every detail with the water, including the reflections and bubbles, and also within the model's face and emotion.

 

Another thing that interests me is the surface of water, I like how ripples look in a photograph and how they make an image look more intriguing. When taking my underwater images I made the model open their eyes and have their hair down so it could float out by itself creating what I think is a great effect. I feel my photoshoot went very well I am am very happy with the result I have. I like how an emotion or storyline could be put to any one of my photo's and would link in well. For example most of my images are almost shocking and horror like. This is because they link in with drowning which is a very unpleasant or depressing thing to look at. After taking these images I feel I am very confident about what theme my final piece should be about. I am definitely looking towards underwater photography for it also as I feel it looks very interesting and has a great shock factor. Also, it links in nicely with the given theme of Earth, Air, Fire and Water.

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