Olympian Lachlan Hay

Olympic Ice Skater Lachlan Hay

During a recent job for the paper I work at I met Winter Olympic ice skater Lachlan Hay. I organised with his coach a quick photo after his final training session in Australia before he left to compete in Vancouver. I got some lights ready and went out to the ice rink (or is it ring?) where he was training. I got the gear and lights ready on the side and then we began. I exposed for the flash only hence why the lit up arena had gone dark. For the horizontal shot I got his coach to hold a Elinchrom Ranger light above his head and slightly forward which gave a nice downlight and a nice effect on the ice. For the shot of him in his ready pose I put a small softbox to the left and then put another light behind to just give a bit of highlight and shape to him. Worked nicely I thought. This was a 15 minute shoot and not at all easy on the ice on your own. I think I would get an assistant to help with the lighting next time because of the time moving backwards and forwards on the ice to adjust lights.