How to be a good model

Tony Land · Issue 116, Sep/Oct 2020 · pp. 65–69

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Here at Divetech one of my many jobs is serving as one of our photo pros. From time to time this means I get to dive with our guests and take photos of them for social media, and for the guests themselves to have as complementary souvenirs. There are days where this is a wonderful experience where I cannot believe I am being paid to do such a thing. There are other times where I could be paid a million dollars and I don’t want to get in the water. Aside from some of the technical failures one periodically gets when shooting underwater, what is the variable? Most often the visibility in the Cayman Islands is amazing, and the conditions are favorable. So what’s the difference between a good day and a bad day shooting divers in the water? The diver. The subject. The person or persons I am trying to shoot. Sometimes divers just don’t have a good understanding of how they can be a good subjec…