Basketball Athlete Portraits (Shoot 2 & 3)

“Art is 110 percent sweat.” – Robert Riskin

Continuation of Athlete Portraits

Here is the continuation of my Athlete Portrait Series…

This time I decided to focus on basketball portraits (unlike football from my first shoot)…

I aimed to think about and plan unique concepts and usage of props to depict these persons as athletes while using harsh lighting (something I am a big fan of)…

FINAL Athlete Portraits

 “Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.” – Dorothea Lange

Athlete Portraits (2nd Shoot)

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.” –  Friedrich Nietzsche

After our 1st Studio Shoot for this project we decided to focus more on the exhaustion theme and change the background to black to enhance the models looks and our overall theme that we wanted to portray.

Here are more of the images from this shoot: