A couple pictures back I mentioned that I was going to be taking some pictures as a favor. The pictures will be various exercises being performed by athletes at the Crossfit gym that my fiancee is part of. The greatest challenge has been learning all the lighting and practicing with using off camera flash. I have never done anything like this before so I asked if I could use the space this weekend for an hour or two (will be taking pictures next weekend) to get in a little "dry run". I have also never really worked with posing someone etc, this has been strictly a hobby for me...a fairly new hobby no less! I've definitely been apprehensive about this whole thing...and still am to some extent. On the bright side though, I've learned a ton about lighting and getting the flash off the camera etc so this has been fun.

Overall, I think some of the pictures I took turned out pretty well. Maggie (pictured) and my fiancee Lauren were my helpful subjects for this little practice session. Maggie is the one setting this up for their gym so I asked her to pose for the practice pictures as I figured it gave her a good idea of what was going on with it. I'm looking forward to next weekend and hoping to have good success.

EDIT: I finally arrived at the weekend of the "shoot". Here is what I ended up with: http://www.pbase.com/ccasey/crossfit_shoot