Photographer Spotlight

Creative Challenge: Water

July 10, 2020

Our latest creative challenge was with the theme WATER.

The creativity of this community continues to blow me away every week!

I thoroughly enjoyed going through your watery submissions and reading your stories!

I hope you too can find inspiration and motivation in this challenge to pursue your own creative endeavours!

Join the groups to get involved with this week’s creative challenge!
Fairytales and Fantasy & The Color Lab Collective.

by Aleah Michele Ford
When I was little, I used to spin and twist in the water pretending that I was transforming into a mermaid! A couple years back I created this silicone and fabric mermaid tail, hoping to create something that looked natural, well blended, and realistic. It certainly isn’t professional level, but I enjoy swimming in it from time to time!

by Alec Davies
Some oldies Shot in my swimming pool back home in sunny South Africa.
Featuring the lovely Elsa Bleda, who is also a photographer and she also features in the latest Volvo ad due to her photography work.
She was such a natural underwater. Made shooting her so easy.

by Alexandra Bochkareva
WATER LILIES ☘️
Portraits of Xenia & Molly

by Alexandra Bochkareva
WATER LILIES ☘️
Portraits of Xenia & Molly

by Angie McGee
We found this beautiful location at the end of a hike on a rainy day. Just as we set up the shot, the clouds parted and the sunlight created this ethereal glow on the waterfall and pool. Felt like we had stumbled on some ancient rainforest temple 😍

by Andreea Sorlescu
Water is a tremendous source of inspiration for me! 🖤

Photographer: Beata Becla
Under the foam blanket

Photographer: Bekka Björke
When I was a kid I used to sit on this beach and imagine I’d float away and turn into a mermaid. Beauty @kylasorad with HMUA by @painterlybeauty .

Photographer: Brett Stanley
Springs, and with one of my favourite collaborators Hannah Fraser. The Dress is by Deborah Lindquist, and the flower is probably 99c Store.

Photography: Cheryl Walsh Fine Art Photography
Headpiece: Miss G Designs
Model: Syrena- Singapore’s First Mermaid
Tail: Finfolk Productions

by Carrie Lewis
Instead of the woods, I decided to place a witch out in the icy seas a few years ago. Created the look post Halloween with a formal dress, creepy fabric I draped and dragged behind her, horns and her pet bone bird in a cage.

by Cassidy Walker
A Mermaid’s Getaway

by Chelsea Ariew
I was so lucky to photograph beautiful Brooke McKenzie rising from the icy cold pacific ocean last year, during a super fun trip to Los Angeles with my dear friend Regina Wamba. Dress by Agnieszka Osipa.

Photography by Chervona Vorona Photography
From our magical photography tour to Iceland. So happy with the first results already. Do you like it? its all real..
Md: Anna Psy
Dress: Fairytas

Model: Christine Adams
Photographed by Inkblotch

by Dar SanAgustin
This is a photo I did last year. It’s always my dream to do a mermaid shoot underwater, but this is the closest that I can get 🤣 This was a really fun DIY shoot as we only used a kiddie inflatable pool and placed LED strip lights around it and mostly got the clothes from a thrift store here ( the pink top is just $1) . I had fun mixing and playing around with the actions on different opacity and selective masking.
Edited with: Fierce Starlight + Garden of Life + midsummer’s dream + Twilight + Into the woods

by Dar SanAgustin
This is a photo I did last year. It’s always my dream to do a mermaid shoot underwater, but this is the closest that I can get 🤣 This was a really fun DIY shoot as we only used a kiddie inflatable pool and placed LED strip lights around it and mostly got the clothes from a thrift store here ( the pink top is just $1) . I had fun mixing and playing around with the actions on different opacity and selective masking.
Edited with: Fierce Starlight + Garden of Life + midsummer’s dream + Twilight + Into the woods

by Delphine Marcusse
This photoshoot was one of my favorite, I really like water lilies, it’s like my nymph comes out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting

Photography: Elizabeth Elder
Lost Goddess ⚜️
Muse: @kiranna_kain
Headpiece: Miss G Designs
Direction/assistants: @esodette

by Emilie June

Photography : Emily Fliptography
Model : Milynn
Assistants : Mezame, Oda

by Evan Kane
These are from one of the very first water sets I did that really got me inspired to keep going with it. I knew what I had in my mind for the set and they came out better than I could’ve imagined. I absolutely love shooting in the water.

by Gaïa May-Ly
Water is my source of inspiration. I love this element. In this series of pictures more iced, we don’t see very well but I’m submerged by water, behind all this snow and ice.

Photo/edit/costume by Ghislaine André
It was the first time I tried to do a mermaid shoot, and I’m really happy how it turned <3
Edited with the Garden of Life action + Honey Faun +Marigold Light from The Color Lab

Photography: Grace Almera Dela Peña
Took this when I was visiting my grandma in the Philippines. Nature there is just so magical and beautiful

by Haryo Nindito Art Portrait Photography
Beauty and The Rocks

by Heidi Laws
*Redhead siren*

by Hui Ying
The idea was to create something along the idea of how candies and sweets are usually so nice and happy but there is always the hidden message that too much candies and processed food is unhealthy.

Photography by Jay Coy
This is my Mother Earth image that I made from my first conceptual shoot almost 3 years ago. This is the image that won me a Color Lab (former Fine Art Actions) contest and sparked the friendship between Bella, Pratik, and myself. This image is so special to me in so many ways. The challenge is creating images that provide the emotion and experiences this one has!

by Jennifer Claus
My interpreation of Ophelia from last year. This year i want to try water pictures again and i´m really looking forward to it.

by Jessica Bailey
Underwater maternity shot of my intern and her gorgeous belly!

by Jo Sellick
Throwback to an oldie but a goodie for the #bellakotakchallenge water theme! This was so cold 😂

by Josh Feske
Model: Karissa Anne

Photographer:Julie Powell

by Kalia Lo
It took me about 2 or 3 months to put together this outfit and research locations.
Taken by my sister Bly with my assistance on the camera manual setting. My other sister Kae holding the reflector. Edited by me.

by Karen Vermeulen

by Karolina Skorek
Shoot in a paddling pool in my garden.

by Katie Forshaw
Color toned with Glacial Frost from the Enchanted Collection

by Katrina Cram
Mermaid @erinstronghairartistry
Body painting – @amy_laura_artistry
Hair – @kerryntunsted

by Kerry Lush
Muse Carol Larson

by Kit Saurus

Picture /outfit by Kjarr Couture
Edit/model by Kitty S Mortensen

by Luca Storelli
Water is a fantastic elements that evoke in me creativity and magical visions…
I used a mix of The Color Lab actions – Iris ((25%) and Mulberry (20%). At last I used @infinitecolorpanel harmonize (15%) masking the effect on the model. And the result is what I imagined before starting work.

by Lucia Giri
The Moth
My favourite self portrait done in bath tub of my grand parents in the middle of the night when my kids were finally asleep and I got some creative urge 😀
I walked out to collect Red Poppy flowers around the road with torch and in night dress and shot reeeeally fast as younger baby called me back to bed soon 😆 the results from such stressful shoots are always my most favorite. Even though I would truly appreciate the luxury of peaceful time.

by Maria Mirage
Water is my main element! I mainly shoot in water or near water for a few years now. I always loved water and feel like a fish in water and now can use it in my work as well. To do better water photo session I bought a bathtub for my garden studio and building temporary pools for shoots. So my models can enjoy warm and clean water and privacy during shoots.

by Marina Chalom
I really like the deep effect that water causes and how we can create melancholy or existentialist scenes.

by Marion Kumaneko
Fun facts about this photography : It was in late november, the water was very cold and I wasn’t wearing any underwear because of the sides of the dress 😅
I didn’t plan to go in the water but when I arrived at the location, an old stone quarry, it was completely drown after a big storm, so I had to improvise…
The things you do for your art… 😂

by Markéta Leupoldová
My Ophelia…

by Merle Harms
I took this picture two days ago in a huuuuuge watertank! It was such a challenge but i love the outcome💕
Model is my beloved Annika Hanny Hansmann
Tail is from www.instagram.com/_anton_krug

by Mia Griggs
This was one of my first photos I ever edited with The Color Lab actions. It’s been a while, but I believe I used a touch of Wolf in the Woods (Fairytale Collection) on this one!!

by Nicole York
My water nymph…

by Patrycja Marciniak
I love shooting people in water! Sadly, I don’t have many opportunities to use natural water tanks – so I use a bathtub instead. Here’s a photo taken in my mom’s bathtub (which is very short, by the way – the model had to stuck his legs out to fit in!), with bath bomb to color the water and some branches I found outside of my mom’s house.
Model, make-up: Timewhisperer

by Savannah Nixon
Model: @loiblverena

by Sissela Ørnholt Johansson
I had my first underwater shoot a couple of weeks back and however hard it was to do, it was also incredibly fun and a huge learning experience!

by Syd Indman
“Sorrows”
Most of my images aren’t personal because in photography, I usually find conceptual more interesting than the expressive when attacking a new project. However, this piece turned into an illustration of the infinite fun of a wayward stomach.

by Tania Gandrabur

by Regina Wamba
Eternal love upon an air mattress in a lake. One of my favorite shoots to date. Dreamy and ethereal.

by Ulrike Burrmann
One of my favourite photoshoots ever! At the coast near Livorno Italy) last year with the most amazing and brave models @mayalou.portfolio, @lucia.artemisia and @__ninette__!

by Valentina Malavenda
Ophelia
Model: Lidwine De Bie
Dress: Pretty IceCream Couture

by Wendy Lu
Here’s a little throwback to a shoot I did when I first moved to Seattle. At the time, the water was far too cold to go in so we were limited to the shore but I’m really happy with how this shot came out! There was some compositing involved, but all of the water was shot on location. I held the camera as still as possible as I waited for the waves and took a ton of photos the moment the freezing waves came crashing in (and on Duncan 🤣).
Model: Duncan Menzies

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