Last Monday, I started going to a new gym for the first time in my life, and to my surprise, the trainer there is a friend from many years ago. After talking for a while, he told me he admired my photography work, and I finally offered to do a photography session that could benefit both of us. We coordinated a day and brought our idea to life.
For this photography session, I had the type of lighting and atmosphere I wanted very clearly in mind. The first photography I took was this one, while testing the light. I liked it so much that I ended up keeping it:
And then we started the real session. For this first part, we wanted to simulate him doing a leg day routine:
I came up with the idea of taking a photography through the weights, and I can say the result was one of my favorites of the day:
It's very curious, but even though the photography is quite dark with lots of shadows (which was intentional), we were actually using up to 3 light sources to illuminate exactly the places we wanted.
At this point, my friend changed clothes, and we moved on to the next part of the photography session. Since he was wearing a sleeveless shirt, we proceeded to give more attention to the arms.
In this part, we simulated an arm routine day:
Throughout this entire photography session, I always paid special attention to shooting from the shadow side. That way, an interesting atmosphere and contrast are created.
Next outfit change, this time with a hoodie to give a tougher look.
The photography through the discs had turned out so spectacularly that we wanted to repeat it with this outfit:
I took all the photographs with my Canon R8 camera, a 50mm f/2.2 lens, and I used 3 light sources for illumination.
I must admit that this has been one of the photography sessions I am most proud of. The results came out exactly as I had imagined, and they looked incredible. I hope you like them as much as we did!