Fitness photography the hard core look.

One of my favorite locations to shoot at are gyms. At a gym there are many ways (styles)  to photograph fitness models.   
Here are a few samples of my editorial work. I shot these to have this high contrast, dark look that some would call "hard core" in different fitness facilities;

Model: Angel Nicholas,
Location: Premier Health & Fitness    http://www.yourpremiergym.com/

Model: Daniel Toth
Location: Budapest, Hungary. Cutler Gold Fitness   http://cutlergold.hu/
Client: Scitec Nutrition,  http://usa.scitecnutrition.com/

Model: Katie Beckman

Location: Minneapolis, MN    http://www.vaultfitnesscenter.com/

Model: Stephanie Moen
Location: Boca Raton, FL,  Busy Body
Client: BeautyFit  http://beautyfit.com/ 

Miami Beach- Sunrise Photography

I enjoy waking up at 4:30am  gather my photo gear and meet my models, my assistant, and makeup artist on South Beach 20 minutes before sunrise. We are all quite sleepy but the spirits are high!
At 6:30 am when the sun starts to rise my adrenalin level rises with it as I try to make sure that everything is perfect- the posing of the model,  the lights, angles- and I get the most number of flawless shots in about 10-15 minutes. That's all the time I get to capture the beautiful orangy gentle glow of the sun. After the 15 minutes of racing with the sun we can loosen up but now the heat makes our job a bit of a struggle. But I don't care... I'm lying down in the sand sweaty, sandy all over and I just love every minute of it! Here are some samples of my work at sunrise.

Hungarian beauty Andrea Kovacs

The unbelievably lovely, stunning Kim Dolan Leto - Fitness Model, Fitness Expert, Oxygen Magazine Cover Model, Writer

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Gorgeous Holly Bricken

Breath takingly beautiful  Ally Rosen- Fitness Model

Another Eastern European beauty, Andi

Ava Cowan IFBB Pro

When I picked up the camera in 2006 I first started by shooting fashion, glamour, getting little tastes of weddings.... until a couple years later the very successful fitness model Ava Cowan started coming to me for photos. I shot bikini and fitness looks for her. Pretty soon I became well known amongst most fitness models and that is how it started with fitness photography. I really enjoy it! Thank you Ava! :-)


Ava is a delight to photograph! Her posing fantastic! She's focused, gets the job done. But what I really like about shooting her is that we laugh SO MUCH while shooting it is unreal! She's hilarious! Super funny woman! Love her!

Special thanks for Mayra Beachwear Collection for providing the bikinis for us.  www.mayracollection.com

And special thanks for FitActiveWear.net for providing this beautiful green workout gear.