Fitness Photography with Andrew van Niekerk

In Studio with MMA fighter and personal trainer Andrew van Niekerk

Fitness & Sport Photography

Andrew came over to the studio for a fitness photo shoot and was looking for something a little different to the usual photographs, being a personal trainer, MMA fighter and living an active and healthy lifestyle, he was pretty ripped, so I used a lighting setup to give him a real edgy look and enhancing the definition in his muscle tone.

My style of photography often merges studio and natural situations creating a composite to give the image a more surreal and 3D feel. I merged Andrew onto a background image taken at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, and applied some post processing to the entire image, giving it an almost underground fight club effect to my fitness photography.