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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Gymnastics Photo Shoot


I spent yesterday afternoon in a gym doing a stock photo shoot of gymnasts. The girls were a lot of fun and with their help (along with their coach) we hopefully kept the poses 'real'.

The extremely large room (12,000 s.f.+) was a challenge to light due to the rapid fall-off in the background. With my normal two softbox setup the athletes would have had a near black background. To solve this problem, I ended up firing a 600ws monolight at full power with only a reflector into the background to provide an adequate light level.

Gymnastic Sample 2

As I've said many times before, it is always great to go on location for these shoots. I especially want to say thanks to the young ladies on the team at Bailie's Gymnastics for being so helpful (and fun!).

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2 Comments:

Blogger snafu918 said...

what kind of release form do you get your models to sign or in this case the parents of the models? The reason I ask is I wanted to get a feel for the types of release forms being used that are acceptable for stock photography.

May 29, 2008  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

@roe

Since I shoot exclusively for iStock/Getty, I use their release. Here's a link:

http://www.istockphoto.com/docs/languages/english/modelrelease.pdf

May 29, 2008  

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