Kettlebell

Hi,

let me get this straight right away. I'm not a big fan of B/W pictures. Never been, never will be. I just like color way to much to just leave it out of my pictures. Also IMHO there are way to many B/W pictures out there with just the saturation reduced to zero, which quite frankly looks awful. That being said, I think for some kind of pictures B/W can work great.

 

Some time ago I stumbled upon the awesome gym shot of Benjamin von Wong which I liked very much. If you don't know him, I highly recomment checking out his Blog (www.vonwong.com/) he's just awesome!

As you may know, I'm Taekwon Do instructor and there also is a Kettlebell class in our gym. Naturally I wanted to try this out for some neet Taekwon Do and Kettlebell pictures. So I built a rain rig, grabbed some people from my gym (none of them professional models) and started shooting. The rain rig I built for this was not as sophisticated as von Wongs, but it also did a good job. The main drawback was, that the amount of rain was really hard to control. But in the end, it worked out quite beautiful.

 

If you like what you see, you can also take a look at my facebook page (where I upload stuff more regular).

Also I'd be happy to read your comment about this picture!

 

www.facebook.com/Flowtography?ref=hl

 

Strobist Info:

I used a 4 strobe setup for this to get this nice harsh and contrasty look and to let the raindrops pop:

2 Softboxes at 04:00 and 08:00

1 Striplight at 10:00

1 bare Strobe at 02:00

Done