Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot
Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot in Tulum
Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot in Tulum
Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot in Tulum
Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot in Tulum
Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot in Tulum
As often happens, the cenote underwater photo shoot with Nicole was a last-minute choice. Just a week before she sent us a short email to ask about our openings and exactly the next day the shoot was already confirmed.
She had already known us for a few months when a post on Facebook by another black traveler had caught her attention. However, the pandemic regulations put in place by the competent authorities had put her plans and her trip to Mexico on hold.
However, the desire to travel had not gone away. So, as soon as the restrictions were lifted, she was happy to organize her trip to Mexico again. At some point, those underwater pictures in the cenote must have come back to her mind. Hence her decision to contact us and book her underwater shooting in the cenote, a few days before departure.
After reviewing our packages once again, her choice fell on the public cenote.
Compared to the private cenote, which has the undoubted advantage of privacy, the public cenote is not only cheaper but, being bigger, it offers many more poses and spots.
After years of using it, we know it so well that we remember every single rock and crevice by heart. We even like to think that those groups of small fish recognize us. How else do we explain their insolence, when they even come nibbling on our whiskers and beards, without the slightest fear.
In any case, such familiarity with that cenote leads us to move with absolute confidence throughout the session. And above all, it helps us to optimize our time. In fact, we are able to get a large number of poses in a relatively short time. In other words, instead of going by trial and error, we move from one point to another, already knowing which photos to take and, above all, without wasting time.
It must be said that the poses that we include in our cenote underwater photo shoots are somewhat the sum of various attempts made in the past years. And the progressive inclusion of new poses is often the result of chance.
Let me explain better. It sometimes happens that an instruction we give to a bride or a model is misinterpreted. Most of the time, the result is not satisfactory and so we ask her to repeat.
Sometimes, however, looking at that “mistake” we realize that a different movement or angle completely changes the pose we asked her to do into something completely new, maybe even better. And so the casual variation on the theme becomes a new pose, sometimes completely replacing the old one, sometimes flanking it.
Other times it is the light that suggests new poses. Because the light, as you can imagine, is not always the same.
Our cenote underwater photo shoots take place all year round and in all weather conditions, including rain (who cares if it’s raining when you’re already in the water). Just think that in all these years we have only once moved a session. And it happened because of a hurricane that passed not far away. But that time we did it more for the risk of driving to the cenote in the middle of a hurricane than for the effect the hurricane would have on the underwater photoshoot in the cenote.
Now you can easily imagine, then, that we held underwater photoshoots in all light conditions.
By the way, do you know that we are often asked if we prefer to work with the sun or with cloudy skies, or even with low light? We always answer that we have no preference. Each time we adapt to each of these conditions trying (and almost always succeeding) to get the best possible photos, given the conditions of that moment/day.
However, just like with poses, we sometimes find totally new light conditions that we have never encountered before. At that moment we feel like experimenting, changing shutter speed, aperture, iso, framing, and our position towards the subject and, of course, the light. It may seem complicated to you, and it probably is to a neophyte, but that little bit of experience accumulated over the years allows us to get the images we want within a minute or two.
Fo example, during the underwater photoshoot with Nicole, columns of magical light, created by the sun still low on the horizon, suddenly invaded the bottom of the cenote. It was a partly cloudy day and there was no time to waste. A cloud bank could have ruined that moment of grace and it would have been a shame. So we stopped what we were doing and moved quickly toward that light. After five or six practice shots, I found the right spot to frame from and simply asked Nicole to swim toward me.
Some of those photos are included in this post
I say this trying to explain how much magic there is behind this kind of photography.
On the one hand, there is a good experience that allows us, or rather guarantees, to have very pleasant results in all weather and light conditions.
On the other hand, there is also good flexibility that helps us to take advantage of any “mistake” that our models may make. Maybe transforming it into a new pose, never tried before.
Let’s finish this short post trying to explain how easy or difficult it is to model underwater to complete a cenote underwater photo shoot.
We do this because recently someone asked us if it is not the case to train before or even attend short courses. The answer is no! Save your money.
Before we begin the actual photoshoot we take as much time as necessary to make you comfortable underwater. We start with a quick briefing before we get in the water and then, once we are in, we give you very simple instructions on what to do. Some people need 5 minutes, some people get comfortable right away. Either way, we do everything without rushing.
Our priority is not only to produce photos that you will cherish for the rest of your life but also to make you live an amazing experience that you will hardly forget. And that you will share with your friends and relatives for a long time.
Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot in Tulum – Mexico
This Cenote Underwater Photoshoot took place close to Tulum – Mexico.
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Cenote Underwater Photo Shoot in Tulum
