Crossfit Aveiro team portraits
Crossfit Aveiro got in touch with me to shoot their team portraits to use on their social media and website.
It’s always nice to come back to this place to photograph the team or the workouts: I’ve been training there since it opened and it’s amazing to see them grow; as a business, as a family and as a community.
For this shoot, I packed light: a Profoto B10 and AirTTL-N trigger, a Manfrotto 5001B Nano light stand, an Elinchrom Rotalux octabox, my trusty Fujifilm X100F and strapped it all to my bike. The size and portability of this setup makes it very easy to transport from one side of town to the other and can still get great results. All without a single power outlet.
I started by placing the the main light on my left and we shot a few horizontal portraits to include their logo on the wall: for this setup, I used the natural, warm light of the gym to act as a fill on the right by dragging the shutter just enough to create a little separation.
For the closer portraits, we moved the setup to one of the black walls and I had them sit on a plyometric box. This time, I removed the second diffuser from the octa and shot through only the interior baffle. The light is a little contrastier and the shadows are a little deeper, making the portraits that little bit more interesting.
