There’s a first time for everything, and we had so much fun trying our hand at underwater maternity photography. Jessica approached us with a vision, and we never turn down a client with such unique ideas. We came across a lot of challenges, but Jessica was patient and a great model.We rented an underwater housing unit for the camera and went to work! It took a lot of wonderful connections, with some tips from many friends but the end product is pretty cool! Because this was a maternity session and not just an average underwater portrait session, we went in knowing we had to work with Jessica and monitor her closely. She’s not due until the end of April, but a swimming pregnant lady should still take it easy. We started in the shallow end with some above/below water pictures. These images turned out so graceful and lovely. Jessica is just glowing with beauty. The lighting falls perfectly on her skin! We did our research before going into this shoot, so we were prepared with many things, long colored fabrics being one of them. The way fabric floats and bends and catches light underwater is unlike anything else! Also unlike anything else, once the fabric gets wet it gets extremely heavy. So to air on the side of caution, we always had a swimmer near Jessica to take the fabric from her. Often times trading her floats for the fabric. After playing with lighting in the shallow end we ventured into the deep end. Jessica was amazing! Looking graceful underwater isn’t easy! There are so many things to think about that come across as ‘ugly’ in the final product if you’re not paying attention! But Jessica truly shined! She pointed her toes, looked at the camera and made swimming with fabric look effortless. I hope more people want to do underwater maternity photography. It was such a neat experience and there’s only one way to go when trying something new!

Jessica, we hope you love these images. We had a lot of fun trying your vision and we hope we succeeded! Thank you for your patience while we figured out settings, and new tricks! We can’t wait for round two 😉 but in the meantime enjoy the images and the last few months of pregnancy! You’re going to make a great mom!