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Last Monday, I started going to a new gym for the first time in my life, and to my surprise, the trainer there is a friend from many years ago. After talking for a while, he told me he admired my photography work, and I finally offered to do a photography session that could benefit both of us. We coordinated a day and brought our idea to life.

For this photography session, I had the type of lighting and atmosphere I wanted very clearly in mind. The first photography I took was this one, while testing the light. I liked it so much that I ended up keeping it:

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And then we started the real session. For this first part, we wanted to simulate him doing a leg day routine:

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I came up with the idea of taking a photography through the weights, and I can say the result was one of my favorites of the day:

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23tv6W3WqH6tEDNu1SnV5DChVdxh1SYpHgzu5Ztvu4EyvLa7d98BRnsh4hGtXnFQoqS1W.jpg

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It's very curious, but even though the photography is quite dark with lots of shadows (which was intentional), we were actually using up to 3 light sources to illuminate exactly the places we wanted.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23t76y4LiQiP11MU1wE1qNsDb2u6ebWnHS6Xpx91Et5GdRd7Km5JU48AFEz3J6UyQJgGg.jpg

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At this point, my friend changed clothes, and we moved on to the next part of the photography session. Since he was wearing a sleeveless shirt, we proceeded to give more attention to the arms.

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In this part, we simulated an arm routine day:

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Throughout this entire photography session, I always paid special attention to shooting from the shadow side. That way, an interesting atmosphere and contrast are created.

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/malos10/23tGZrNPhyVM3aVKLgm822ZuaMZ8jtBVYAoQZPVw6G6ZJtYLqxTJAcXbhrTSbhV557siw.jpg

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Next outfit change, this time with a hoodie to give a tougher look.

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The photography through the discs had turned out so spectacularly that we wanted to repeat it with this outfit:

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I took all the photographs with my Canon R8 camera, a 50mm f/2.2 lens, and I used 3 light sources for illumination.

I must admit that this has been one of the photography sessions I am most proud of. The results came out exactly as I had imagined, and they looked incredible. I hope you like them as much as we did!