Sports Portrait - Shooting sports portraits can be an interesting endeavor. The challenge is shooting the athlete in an interesting way that hasn't been shot 1000 times before by every other newspaper/magazine photographer in every city in the world and doing it within deadline screaming in your ear.
It was at his home gym which was cool but like almost every other gym had a lot of background clutter and I didn't see a great spot to shoot into a clean background so I stopped down the background and made it black.
This Jordan, he is a young boxer who was going to step into the Golden Gloves competition. I made him take off his shirt and his pants, and change into boxing attire. The golden gloves competition was going to take place here for the first time in over a decade so it was kind of a big deal to make sure we told the right visual story. It is NOT a coincidence that his had wraps are golden in color.
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