Yesterday my assignment was to make a portrait of Mark Schramm. Mark is the Monroe County region swimmer of the year. Originally I was going in a completely different, more standard direction with this photo. However, when Mark was swimming back to the edge of the pool for another take, I noticed this option. I asked him to tread water for a moment while I moved my lights and took a quick meter reading.

I used one White Lightning strobe fired through a white umbrella above and to the right for a main light. A Canon SpeedLight low and to the left filled in the shadows.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark 2
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Aperture: f5.6
Focal Length: 35mm
WB: 5600k