As I planned to shoot the four sessions within a week of each other I had not bothered to empty the pool. The shoot with Camila took place nine days after the previous one with Shirley.

As I mentioned previoulsy, the pool that I constructed for these shoots was built on a wooden frame with an internal measurement of 1.1m (3’ 9”) wide and 2m (6’ 7”) long. It was fitted with a double liming of black polythene. It was then filled with water at approximately depth of 30cm. As the ground sloped it was actually deeper at one end.

Once we had finished the studio shoot Camila stripped down to her underwear and we headed out to the pool. While the conditions were ok for photography with a lot of cloud cover they were less than ideal for the pool. We had not had much sun over the previous three days so the water was very cold. In addition the air temperature was only sitting around 18°c (64.4°F).

Therefore no that we did not have time to muck around. While the camera positioned on the boom does give you the best viewpoint it was not really an option. Getting it positioned and linked to the app on the iPad can prove problematic and takes time.

As both the camera and ipad go into sleep mode it is not something that you can set up in advance. I therefore decided to ditch it and simply handhold the Camera.

This then introduced the problem of a reflection of me in the image. I knew that I would have to fix this in post. This was achieved using a combination of content aware fill and the clone stamp. 

It is interesting that the latest version of Adobe Cameron Raw has introduced a reflection removal tool. While it seems to work well on window reflection, I tried to run one of these images through it and it totally failed at removing my reflection.

The camera was set in aperture priority mode shooting at f5 ISO200. We only shot for a little over a minute. It is a reflection of the lack of light that the camera used shutter speeds between 1/60s and 1/80s. The previous shoot with Shirley was between 1/400s and 1/800s.

The total time from the first to last image was a little over a minute. Despite it being a very short shoot we got the images we were after and Camila really liked the end results.