The Park Gym
In need of a versatile gym for a couple lifestyle fitness photo shoots, Anthony set out to ask a couple local gyms if they would be interested opening their doors to these projects. Remembering The Park Gym was just a couple blocks down the street from his apartment, Anthony decided to drop in to grab a coffee at their cafe and see if he could make things happen. To his fortune, David, the owner, was in the building hanging out. A quick conversation and an email later, Anthony secured the location.
Fast forward 4 months later. David loved what he saw from those first two shoots and wanted to bring Anthony on board to shoot a campaign for the gym. The goal was to highlight the variety of fitness and boxing classes the gym offers along with Contender Cafe in the front. Given complete creative freedom, Anthony wanted to keep things as authentic to the gym by capturing members hanging out at the cafe, getting ready for their class, variety of lifts and movements, and all the little details in between. Anthony captured a mix of emotion throughout the gallery. From your more intense moments mid session to the post workout laughs you can hear echoing through the gym. Wanting to keep things nimble with the fast paced classes, Anthony kept production lean relying heavily on the natural light coming into the gym accompanied by a single 1200W mono-light bouncing off the walls/ceiling to freeze each frame and a little bit of specularity to the images.
Overall, everyone was stoked on the images and we hope to continue the relationship with David and his team.
