The Potrait of Body Builder Atlet

Several day ago, When i had an assigment in four star hotel, i meet a former Bodybuilder atlet, and  he work as a fitness instruction, in that place. After take shoot in fitness area, we have one hour cofee break, before continue to next session. Then i ask him, that i would make a potrait for him as my personal project directly at that time, and he like to do that.

Basic Potrait
The idea of this photo it's simple,  want to made a classical shot of the body builder atlet, pose with they great mussles, used with an oil in his body to made the shiny wet in the body.

This first shot, i use vario lens 18-105mm, to get a good proportion. i used in 50mm.

Photo : Agus d Laksono | Asst Photo : Chairul Zaman | Talent : Syamsudin | Nikon D7000 lens Nikon 18-105mm @ 50mm

Wide Angle Lens

The next experiment it's trying to made potrait photo by using a wide angles lens. In basic photography tecnique we learn that making potrait photo it's using normal lens or tele lens to get proportional composition and body stucture from the talent.

In Photo Jurnalistic a lot photographer like to use wide angle lens to made street photography, and made a close up human interest. Usually they like used vario lens 17-35mm. One of teory base on Quote from the legend photographer :

"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough." 
                                                                      Robert Capa (October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954)

When we use wide angle lens for potrait, the soul of photo not come from techical but come from the inner and the soul from the person we take.  

Photo : Agus d Laksono | Asst Photo : Chairul Zaman | Talent : Syamsudin | Nikon D7000 lens Tokina 11-16mm @ 16mm

Then i change the lens, try made this photo using 11-16mm lens. Move on close to Object, i made a shoot from a half meter from the talent using in 16mm lens. 

Angle and composition it's still good. Distortion in the image, if we can used and place it in correct position, we could made a outstanding image. 

Lighting

To made this photo i used 3 lighting, 2 lighting with standar reflextor from backlight  left and right, and 1 main light i use standar reflector with honey comb from side light. If you like stobist technique, You can use it.

For Camera i used Nikon D7000 , but you could use every brand DSLR Camera.

Photo : Agus d Laksono | Asst Photo : Chairul Zaman | Talent : Syamsudin | Nikon D7000 lens Tokina 11 -16mm @ 11mm

In so little time, in the middle of my photo assigment, this personal project it's took 40 minutes, with one  type of lighting set, and got 2 pose from the talent.

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