Boxing...

We wrapped up another successful speedlight bootcamp at Vancouver Photo Workshops on the week-end.  Thanks must go out to; all of our fabulous models, Madhava for organizing all of our gear and making sure it got from one place to another intact, and especially to Scotty Jackson for allowing us to use his incredible boxing gym.  As I mentioned in a previous post, you will never find a more authentic gym, ANYWHERE!

Not only did Scotty provide the location, he got us two great fighters as well, Abdul and Darcy.  While you couldn't meet two nicer guys, true gentlemen, there's not enough money in the world to get me to step into the ring with either of them.  Watching these two hit the heavy bag, well let's just say, it tends to focus the mind.

I wanted to share a couple of pictures from our shoot.  The first was a single light with Abdul, the second a multi-light set-up with Darcy.

This was the only time that Abdul's hands weren't just a blur of red, this dude is quick.

More after the jump..

Darcy looking large and imposing

Here's the lighting diagram for the set-up with Darcy.

I have only one regret from the week-end, Scotty didn't hang around long enough for me to shoot a portrait of him.  Next time.  We'll be doing another of of these week-end bootcamps soon. Stay tuned here for details.