In this video I'll bring you along
for the ride as I prepare and plan
three boxing themed photo-shoots.
Hello I'm Gavin Hoey
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and you're watching another
plan it, shoot it, edit series
of videos where I take you
behind the scenes on one of my shoots
from start to finish.
Well this is definitely the start video
because we haven't done any
planning for a boxing themed shoot.
So why boxing?
Well a few years ago I did
a similar theme shoot
here in the studio,
it was great fun,
the pictures look
fantastic but it's always bugged me
that they really did look like
they were in a studio
and not a location.
Well very recently we discovered
a great boxing location,
it's just down the road from us here.
We even found the owner,
had a brief chat and he kind of seemed
okay with us possibly, maybe doing a photo shoot
sometime in the distance,
so there's no time like the present,
so we're going to get
in touch with the owner
and establish a few really important things
before doing a location shoot.
So (A) can we go?
And (B) how long can we be there?
What's it going to cost?
Are there do's and dont's?
That sort of stuff,
lots of questions makes it
sound like the perfect opportunity
to send an email
but from experience
if you're looking for a positive response
don't email, phone.
Phone conversation with the owner
should really sort this out
however my wife Sam
is so much better at this than I am,
so I'm going to ask Sam
to phone the owner of the studio
who's actually also called Sam,
that could get confusing
and hopefully we'll get
a positive response really quickly.
So it's taken a couple of days
and a couple of phone calls
but Sam has got it sorted
and the owner has kind of agreed for us
to go and do a location scout
but he's gone a step further
and we just got off
the phone from him he said if we can get
down there right now,
we can actually do
a test shoot,
which is amazing!
So I'm going to take a couple
of the glow 70cm soft boxes
and of course the eVolv 200.
We'll pack a couple of those
and I guess you get to join me at the gym.
So this is where we're going
to hopefully do the boxing shoot TGM Gym,
local gym. They've said we can come
and shoot here we're going to do a recce first
let's see what's inside.
The inside of the gym looked fantastic
even better than I remember
and I had a good look round
unfortunately I can't use
any of the audio in there
because the music was so loud.
The reason for the loud music
became clear very quickly
because it turned out
they were just about to start
a gym class and we didn't know
that was going to happen
but we had a chat with
the guys and they were more than happy
for me to take pictures just as long as
I set my gear up away from where they
were training which annoyingly
was exactly where I wanted to photograph.
So who is going to be the model for my test
shoot? Well once again it's down
to my wife Sam to be the test model
for the test shoot
and although she's never done
any boxing in her life, she really gave
it a good go
and I learnt loads
from just taking a few test pictures.
One thing I learnt really quickly
is getting the perfect
punch bag shot is really hard.
As time was tight
and I didn't want to outstay our welcome
I gave that up
and tried to do some still shots
some static pictures instead.
The ones where I really overpowered
the ambient with the eVolv 200s,
they look fine but I could have been back
in the studio for those,
so I actually prefer
the ones where I balanced the flash
with the ambient light
and that's something
I'm going to need to consider
when it comes to do the full final shoot.
So we've got the location sorted
and the model is sorted
as well so the guy
who was the boxer in my old video
Roger he's going to be the boxer in the new video.
At the moment he is in fantastic shape
as you'll see in the next video.
Neither he nor I know anything about
boxing or have any boxing equipment
so although we can borrow a few bits from
the gym there's a few things
like clothes I'd like to supply new.
First things have arrived in this morning
and we've got some of these
which are sort of wraps
and things that sort of wrap around your hand
and...
oh,
oh that...
and they've come wrapped
in a piece of a pizza box
American Hawaiian Pizza anybody?
That doesn't bode well
for the rest of the shoot does it really?
One of the more scary things I've had to do.