Shoot - Thai Boxing

Travelled to a Thai Boxing club in Swanley, Semtex Gym. They are a strong up and coming gym within the UFC and MMA becoming very well known within those circles. I was actually very lucky to be able to photograph in the gym as usually it is a blanket 'no' fortunatley I met someone who had been training their for many years. However due to the usual 'blanket no' actually shooting their was difficult, I was unable to get any time with individuals for better composed images.


Equipment List -

 

Canon 550D DSLR

Canon 16mm - 85mm EFS Lens

Canon 430 EXII Speedlite

QP Card
Pop Up Softbox
Wireless Flash Triggers


Lighting Diagram/Ideas -

Sadly due to constrants revolving this gym I connot get down for a recce shoot, which means lighting will have to be done on the day. However the general ideas for lighting will be using flash from a mid-low angle.

 

The gym itself was small and a pain to photograph in. Black ceiling absorbing all bounced light, making camera mounted flash difficult to use along with very limited space making setting up lights impossible. Standard light was also minimal as the gym had no windows and minimal neon strip lights on the ceiling. Due to this a high ISO had to be used which has caused some image noise.

When talking to the owner/coach of the gym he informed me that there where many under 16s training that day which limited when and where I could shoot dramatically. As well as some of the people training being high class MMA and UFC Fighters their shorts where also off limits to photograph.

 

Images -

 

 

 

As can be seen here is a lot of image noise and poor lighting yet did get some photographs that did work.

 

 

However the text colour still needs much working on.