Fighter not a Lover

shatch

Had a photo shoot with a MMA fighter last week. Was quite fun.

1) Connect

http://tesseract.smugmug.com/Other/Photos/i-87bTX6Z/0/L/Bag-punch-2-L.jpg
Three lights. 1 behind the bag toward camera (the one you can see), 1 camera right and one camera left.

2) Through the Cage

Two lights; one behind and to the right of talent, the second one in front of talent and above.

3) Taped Fist

Two lights; one above and in front of fist, second behind talent.

D3Sshooter

Very well done, as Mary Ellen Mark would say "very nice illustration". 2 is my favorite. One could have been if only the light in the back would have just moved a few inches to the left. It would have been like an impact flash.
3, I do believe that the rim around the fist is a bit to explicit.

Never the less , a job well done.

digidrone

Well Done Mr. Hatch!

r3t1awr3yd

Do you have a B/W converted one of the first one?

BrettDeutsch

Very nice. Great impact (figuratively and literally).

zoomer

Dude! These are sweet!!
I like them all but that last one is money!

anonymouscuban

Awesome!

Hackbone

Way to go.....awesome.

FlyNavy

Very creative! Well done.

Foques

what kind of processing it that?

jeffreaux2

Steven,

Its great to see you posting!

That second image is REALLY powerful. The concept, combined with the lighting and processing REALLY put it over the top.

The other two are pretty doggone good as well......but sheesh....when you post 'em up next to #2 , well...........#2 steals the show.

Nice shootin'

shatch

Woke up this morning and was doing a little Photoshopping when I remembered I had posted a while ago without follow-up. Great surprise to see some very kind comments from some amazing photographers! Thank you everyone.

r3t1awr3yd, sorry, I currently don't have a good BW.

Foques, on the processing, I don't remember the exact, but I believe I took it into photoshop. Added some contrast, HDR toning, High Pass overlay, and colorized it to blue hues. In Lightroom, I added some clarity, then took the shadows to blue and the highlights to yellow and added a slight vignette.

zoomer

Mr. Hatch I think you are holding out on us. You have some amazing photos at your site....you must have a larger stash somewhere. You didn't just wake up one day that good .

Nikolai

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Foques

shatch wrote: »

Woke up this morning and was doing a little Photoshopping when I remembered I had posted a while ago without follow-up. Great surprise to see some very kind comments from some amazing photographers! Thank you everyone.

r3t1awr3yd, sorry, I currently don't have a good BW.

Foques, on the processing, I don't remember the exact, but I believe I took it into photoshop. Added some contrast, HDR toning, High Pass overlay, and colorized it to blue hues. In Lightroom, I added some clarity, then took the shadows to blue and the highlights to yellow and added a slight vignette.

Good stuff! thank you sir!