Against The Flow






Photorealistic full-body underwater photos of a Subject
[person in the photo] in the same dark and loose clothing,
hovering beneath a whitish four-panel door floating
horizontally just below the rippling water surface; the door
is horizontally centered in the upper third with the bottom
side visible, four legible embedded rectangles, and a small
dark knob near the lower middle edge, silver foam and
reflections gathered just above it.

The subject occupies the middle-lower third with the body
completely horizontal - the spine parallel to the bottom
edge of the image - head to the left of the camera and feet
to the right, arms relaxed with open palms, knees loosely
bent, a flow of fine bubbles rising diagonally toward the
door, and the face oriented upward toward the surface/
door (chin slightly raised, gaze upward).

The water forms a dark gradient from cobalt to blue -
brightest near the surface and nearly black at the bottom -
leaving a considerable amount of negative space around
the subject. Camera at medium depth, subject level, full-
frame mirrorless digital camera in an underwater housing,
wide-angle 24-28 mm, f / 4, 1/ 250 s, ISO 400, daylight white
balance, no filtering.

Lit only by sunlight from above with soft volumetric rays
and sharp highlights on the lower part of the door, minimal
backscatter, crisp detail in the bubbles, clean edges, fine
outlines; cinematic bluish-teal levels with neutral whites.
No fish, no particles, no text, no additional elements.


 

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