The Dragon's Den in Owen Sound is where you go to get scary. It is. When I started hanging around there four years ago, I was a skinny pacifist. Now I'm a skinny, pacifist killing machine, but I digress.
Almost as long as I've been training at the Den, I've been shooting the fighters. I've shot through the chainlink and ropes at fight nights, and every now and then, I shoot portraits.
I've been looking for things to shoot for stock, and with the UFC expoding like it has, I decided to shoot another series of fighter portraits, but this time, I was going dark-I wanted these guys to look every bit as scary as they are when you're facing them in the cage (actually, they are all really nice guys).
This time, I used hard light all around, to maximise the shadows and muscle definition. I used a boom to hold a flash straight overhead, While two additional flashes lit from the sides. The overhead flash was just a bit in front of the subject, and the idea was to get it to only light the upper surface of a muscle group, and leave harsh shadows for better definition. To make sure I still had some detail in the shadows, I had a white reflector on the floor, just in front of, and angled into the subject.
You can see the whole set by clicking here, or by clicking the image at the top. In the meantime, here are a few more.
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