The forgotten style…fitness portraits! Hey, not
everyone needs an ad for the latest protein powder or fat burner. In the definition of a portrait I found this interesting sentence: “The intent (of a portrait) is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person”. Sometimes your client just wants to capture his or her intensity or passion for their sport. These shoot can often times be the most rewarding.
In this shoot, we have an athlete who just loves his MMA workouts and has changed his life, health and physique by working out at one the local area MMA training facilities. He’s not training to go pro, he doesn’t care about promotion, he just loves the exercise and results.
When I met with our subject for this shoot, I was amazed by his story of weight loss and how his love of MMA had turned his life around and got him looking and feeling great. But that was it, no ulterior motives for fame, glory, or the next cover. Just a guy with a new found passion and some amazing results. My goal from that meeting forward was to show this guy exactly what I saw in his truly inspirational story. A guy who had been a little depressed and overweight had gone to a cut up bad ass!
We got to work in a good old-fashioned run down parking garage with a basic one light setup and just had fun with it, shooting guerilla style, finding nooks and crannies to shoot into. Luckily we came across a nice white brick wall and got this dramatic partial head shot. He loved his photos and what was really rewarding about the shoot is that he just wanted to see the result of his hard work. I thought, now that is what it is all about.
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