PhoArtgraphy

It’s always a wonderful thing when I have repeat clients.  When they come back it tells me that I did a good job and that they appreciate my work.  Having repeat clients is one of the best compliments I could ever receive.  Just recently I had a client I had not seen since I photographed her engagement and wedding some years ago.  It was great to see her and she was in fantastic shape.  Come to find out, she has been boxing.  Yes, you read me right…boxing.

It turns out that there is an annual Black Tie Charity Corporate Boxing Event that happens and this year she will be participating.  How exciting!  I’ve never personally known a female boxer.  Well heck, I’ve never personally known a male boxer either, but it’s still exciting.  Felicia wanted me to take some promotional images of her to advertise the boxing match.  Even though it is an amateur match, it’s still sanctioned by the USA Boxing Association.  She even had to get a boxing license.  Can you tell I am impressed?

Basically she wanted two sets of images.  One was for the person designing the flyer/poster that would display all of the boxers participating and another poster of each boxer and their opponent.  Photoshop makes all of this so easy.  The other set of images were for her to use to advertise the event to her friends and family.  Of course I was more than happy to do it for her.  Since Felicia was going to be extracted from the background by the designer, I decided to just shoot her on a white background.  No need for frills because you wouldn’t see it anyway.  She wore mostly black until she changed into some pink and black boxing shorts so that I could put my own background behind her. 

This was my first time shooting a boxer so of course we used some familiar boxing poses.  She wanted to look fierce, but feminine.  I said we could do that.  We had a lot of fun with it.  In the beginning she was a bit stiff so I had her shadow box and throw some punches to loosen up.  As she threw her jabs and uppercuts, I would capture the images so they would look as real as possible. One of my favorite things about Felicia is that she gives me complete control of the creativity.  Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy collaborating with my clients, but Felicia is different.  She told me to do whatever I thought would work.  How awesome is that when a client trusts you that much?

For those interested, the mission of Church’s Partners Foundation, Inc. is to provide support and assistance to the employees of Cajun Operating Company and the franchisees of Church’s Chicken and Texas Chicken, their families and the communities in which they live.  A portion of each ticket purchased from the fighters will be donated toChurch’s Partners Foundation, Inc.  In addition to ticket donations, if the match is won the “purse” will also be donated to Church’s Partner Foundation, Inc..  The amount for the charity donation for each match is to be determined later.

The match is August 8, 2013 at 7:00 pm at the Foundry at Puritan Mill, 916 Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard NW, Atlanta, GA. 30318.  Ticket information is as follows: VIP Table Seat, which includes dinner, VIP cocktail reception, and ringside table seating – $200 or reserver the entire table of 10 seats for $2,000.  Of this amount, $75 will be donated to CPF, Inc. per ticket.  VIP Ringside includes front row seating and VIP cocktail reception for $150 of which $50 will be donated to CPF, Inc. per ticket.  Ringside includes ringside seating in rows 2 and 3 for $100, $20 of which will be donated to CPF, Inc. per ticket.  Then there are the preferred seating and general admission for $50 and $25 respectively.  $10 and $5 will be donated to CPF, Inc. per ticket, respectively.  If you are unable to attend the event you can still support CPF, Inc by making a donation.  Please contact Felicia White at fbrody@churchs.com or trentonrt1@yahoo.com for more information.