On Sunday 3rd Feb I managed to get some time with Daniel Groves during one of his mini training sessions for the Iron Man Triathalon in June.
The first Idea was to shoot outdoors, however the horrifically overcast sky and horrid light played havoc with the photographs, however he has allowed me to go back and shoot again on a better day.
That said the day was not a waste, as there was also an indoor option with his home made gym.
Trying to explain what a QP Card was to Groves was difficult, he made a mockery of it.
While this photograph does work with the layout I fear it may be too similar to the Cycling photoshoot. Which is why I also did a number of other shots though as mentioned before much of them could not be done due to the weather.
The image works well within both layouts yet as mentioned may be too similar to the cycling, though I do have another shoot coming up with him. The text colour will have to be edited in the final peice due to clashing colours.
When on location with Groves I had an idea which could work yet not techically a sport. As part of his training he hits large 300KG tractor tyres with a seldge hammer, this works similar muscles that are used during swimming.
The idea was to get a shot of him swinging the hammer and capturing the hammer in a specific location where it would be right above the text. However it would only really work on the landscape layout, rendering it pointless for this exercise.
Playing around with text colour to see what works and what looks good. As mentioned before these probably will not work as final peices, unless made into a composite with other sports. You can also see the overcast sky which caused issues. Research into creating a composite image for the Iron Man Triathlon is deffinatley somthing I will be doing.
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