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Fitness photo session in the studio<\/h1>\n

There are always many other ways to light your subject, whether on location or in the studio. With Fitness photography though, you do want to show off the physique of your subject\u00a0–\u00a0and this does mean strongly directional light. The main light can be a harder \/ smaller light source, or even a larger light source such as a softbox, but generally you do need to go for directional light that skims across the physique of your subject. Flat lighting is going to be a difficult\u00a0approach here. This previous article –\u00a0Chiaroscuro lighting<\/a>\u00a0– shows another lighting setup that works here.<\/p>\n

When photographing Matthew<\/a> in the studio, we decided on a beauty dish with a sock (but same grid.) The beauty dish then effectively becomes a smallish round softbox. Then we added some other subtle lighting to have him pop out from the darker background. A rim-light helps etch him against the darker background.<\/p>\n

But that’s just the basic approach on the lighting here – I think that as photographers, we always try and change things up, even if just a little bit. So what started as fairly straight-forward poses, turned into a series of photos where Matt jumped and leaped around, to bring in something more dynamic than just a posed portrait. Fitness photography needs that movement or implied movement – that tension in the photographs.<\/p>\n

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Lighting setup & gear used<\/h2>\n