No surprise, but Sports Illustrated is my bible right now in terms of shooting swimwear. These two photos are definitely inspired by SI. Beyond the obvious, I love SI for how you know there’s an adventure behind every one of their swimwear photos. That’s something that makes swimwear so unique. It’s something you wear while on vacation or holiday or weekend while out having fun near water so there’s almost always an adventure involved.
That’s why I think it’s imperative to shoot swimwear on location– a pool or beach or lake or stream– to capture the adventure associated with swimwear. Studio swimwear photos just don’t do that.
Model Cara, hair/mua Jessica Belknap, photography assistant Thomas Lindsay