Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting sang Elton and I’m getting ready for the cage fight at The Olympia tonight. Here’s hoping for some good action shots, preferably without my involvement in the fighting.
These are the last of the cage fighter portraits I’m putting up of the guys from yesterday.
Things have been a bit cage fighter orientated on here over the last week and it’s not going to change over the next couple of days either! There’s another round of cage fighting tomorrow at The Olympia and today I was doing some more portraits.
This is, obviously, Dave Hill who’s on the fightcard for tomorrow and he did some cool poses.
About 18 months ago I was asked to do some pics of Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson for some MMA clothing company. Initial trepidation about meeting him was soon dispelled as he very funny pulling lots of daft faces as I tried taking portraits of him. At the time he was based in Widnes training in a fight gym but had been called up for the new A Team film and here he is doing a MR T type pose (without the hairstyle). I believe he’s now based in LA – can’t think why!
I’ve spent the past few days buffing up my website with a fresher, more unified look and adding loads of new images including this one. Hope you pass by and have a look at www.brianrobertsimages.com.
Friday afternoon was spent doing a whole series of portraits including a lot of cage fighter types. It’s been quite some time since I’ve done these so it was good to be working away with the guys again. Thesehave a slightly different look to the usual fighter portraits where I’ve avoided the big heavy contrast processing and mean frowns (they’re to come) but hopefully they offer a slightly different side of the fighters.
The guys are (from top); James Manning, Greg Severs and finally Lunas Jones.
An afternoon spent doing male portraits of cage fighters and this chap, Tom (or Posh Tom as he’s known owing to his very well spoken manner). Tom asked me to do some pics for his portfolio so we went through a range of different things including this where he was after an England rugby calendar style of shot. Now onto the cage fighters…
