Sometimes the weather just doesn’t cooperate and you have to make the best of what’s available. That weekend in Palm Bay, well every evening it would pour and I was starting to feel like we would have to reschedule the shoot. I had an aha moment, hmm, let’s check the weather map to see if there would be any areas without storm clouds? Sure enough there was one beach where it wasn’t raining; Satellite Beach, Central Florida. Originally we had planned to do the shoot in Fort Lauderdale.

When we arrived at the beach, the light was fading fast and I knew we had to work quickly. The wind was blowing hard too, which made everything even more trickier. Imagine using a lighting umbrella in a strong breeze, it’s like a sail.

We started out on the shore and gradually worked our way into the water. I had originally planned the shoot this way so I could get Roxanne and Collin comfortable in front of the camera. You’ll see why soon!

Now we’re getting into the water.

The most exciting part of out photo shoot was when Roxanne and Collin were both laying in the water. I wanted to capture the water when it actually went over them.
“Okay, stay with me. Stay with me.” I said to Roxanne and Collin.

And this was the result, well worth the effort to capture this moment!
I was laying on my elbows in the water to get this perspective!

I shot this portrait knowing it would make a beautiful black and white conversion. I had the light positioned so that brightest part would be Roxanne and Collin’s faces, this draws your eyes towards them while fading out the background into darkness.

You can see some of the what it took to create the water portraits here.

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