The Gym Can Be Sexy...

People in the gym, all sweaty, breathing hard, getting hot... Stimulating!


So I decided to shoot this series with Eric and Jessica from Anytime Fitness in Cathedral City, California. It has a whole different workout feeling, don't you think?


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Me At Work With Bodybuilder, Robert Hatch...

I am the guy with the camera!


This was shot in the mirror at the Power of Fitness Gym in Palm Desert California. Gyms are full of mirrors, of course. The camera is a Mamiya 645AFDII shooting Tri-X 400 pushed 2 stops, for you photography interested folks.

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I Am Again Honored :)

SportsShooter is a respected community of photographers from around the world. Not just shooting sports but photographers covering wars, the White House or for that matter Little League, the Olympics and the SuperBowl. A diverse group from community newspaper photographers to people from Sports Illustrated and USA Today. As a member of SportsShooter I am very excited to have my coverage of the just prior posted workout series here on my Blog with Robert Hatch make the front page yesterday.


You can see the series on SportsShooter here.

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Workout Photo Shoot

Photography at bodybuilding competitions is what most people think of when they ask about what I shoot most of the time. And actually that is not the case.

I spend most of my time in the gym, photographing my subjects working out. My preference is real life gyms and real workouts as opposed to studio gyms and fake weights. Yes there really are fake weights.

Having spent many years myself lifting weights, studying the subject and working with others has given me the advantage of knowing how to really put people through a workout that is technically correct and photo friendly.

This is a series of photographs shot for one of the bodybuilding magazines with my friend Robert Hatch, a long time bodybuilder and just plain impressive human being at 6 ft tall and 258 pounds.


205 pound curls is not something I would have most people do in a photo shoot. But Robert Hatch is big enough to make it look good.


Robert Hatch doing dumbbell curls with 50's is heavier than I would do with most people. But Hatch is a big guy.


Regardless of how much weight you are lifting, a hard contraction at the top of the movement puts a real strain on the muscle. Rob really hits it with his arms.


I prefer incline dumbbell bench press. It is less dangerous with heavy weights, you can turn them out and have them not fall on you. Here Rob is putting up a pair of hundreds.


Shoulder shrugs build the traps, the muscles at the top leading from your shoulders to your neck. Rob grabbed a pair of 150's, big weight for a big guy


Taking a stop between exercises I shoot a few posed photographs. It also gives Rob a rest.


Taking a break from lifting for a moment, I shoot these posed shots around the equipment nearby.


Working through the photo shoot workout can be a lot of effort. With Rob I am shooting him with heavier weights to have it match his 6 ft 258 pound body. Here you can see he is wearing down a little while we do seated back rows.


We do get in a change of clothes, maybe a few times. And that requires going back and doing some more work. Rob did a few preacher bench curls and it looked good. But he was working hard.


A few body poses to show off the hard work Robert Hatch has done over the years.

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