Mermaid Love
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Location
This picture was taken at Botany Bay Beach in Kent, UK when I was doing an engagement shoot for a couple.Time
This is one of my favourite picture taken in 2014. I still remember the picture was taken on 28th April 2014, where the water was still freezing cold. We got to the beach around 9:30am, but due to the coldness of April, the beach was empty. We started shooting around 10 o'clock. The "Mermaid Love" picture was taken at 10:51am.Lighting
I did not use any flash in this shoot. The sky was slightly cloudy that day which gave us the perfect soft lighting.Equipment
This was shot with a Nikon D800, Tamron 70-200 f:2.8. No flash and no tripod was used in this shot.Inspiration
As soon as I saw the dress, I felt it would look like the tail of a mermaid. Therefore I asked her to do a slight jump while kissing, like the mermaid emerging from the water to kiss her prince.Editing
There were actually a lot of seaweed floating around the sea that day, so I spend around 2 hours clearing the seaweed using Adobe Photoshop.In my camera bag
In my travel camera bag I will always have a D800 body, my trustworthy 50 1.4 prime lens and a DJI Mavic Pro Drone. In my event camera bag I will always have two D800 body, 24-70 2.8 on one body at all times, 14-24 2.8 and 70-200 2.8 on rotation on body 2. two Godox V860N flash gun with receivers for those nasty dark surprise environments.Feedback
If you are trying the capture something similar, be mindful of the timing when the model jumps, you will have to get a couple of shots as practice, as most of the time you might end up with either the jump was too low, or you press too late and the model's hair starts to float as she's coming back down. It will be easier if you set your camera to high continuous shooting mode (CH).
