Share Six | Water

As you’ve made your way through the circle, you already know by now that August’s theme is Water.  We did this theme two years ago in April and I did some pictures of water droplets splashing into a bowl of water.  This time around I decided to try for some underwater pictures.  I wanted to stretch myself as it’s not something I photograph very often.  It was also made more difficult though as we took our pool down this year.  I had hoped to get some images in an outdoor pool, but time got away from me (we’ve had family in town and my daughter is in a musical) and so we had to head to the community college’s indoor pool last minute.  I would have preferred some outdoor sunny glistening pool pictures, but this will have to do.

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For my final image, I’m going to post an underwater picture I took last summer at an outside pool.  P1090314_SS_web

It gives a little comparison of the lighting differences between an indoor pool and outdoor.  There is so much that goes into an image.  The first five pictures were shot with a GoPro and were much higher resolution images than my final image which was shot with a point and shoot underwater camera.  I’m new to underwater photography, so maybe there was more I could do with the editing of the first pictures, but I have to say that lighting plays a big role in an image.  Not that the first images weren’t good, they definitely captured the “mood” of the lighting at the indoor pool, and I like the mood of the pool lighting.  Then you look at my final image and it’s a totally different vibe.  It’s light and airy.  A lot of photographers find a style or look they like to always shoot in.  While I had hoped to do bright outdoor pool pictures, it was definitely fun (and challenging) trying some indoor more moody images.  I think that’s what I love about photography.  While I would love to create my own signature style in my images, I tend to always go back to just shooting the images as the scene was with whatever mood and lighting was there.  I’ve even beaten myself up about not having a signature style, but I’m kind of coming to the conclusion though that documenting the scene as it was IS my style.

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed my take on this month’s theme.  Head on over to Elizabeth’s blog to see her amazing pictures!!