I was tasked with creating powerful yet personal portraits of jockeys currently racing at Gulfstream Park in my home state of Florida. The client chose the active race paddock as the location because it was iconic to the fans. I had to work fast as the photo sessions were squeezed in-between jockey training and races. For speed, I used a Profoto 7b with a beauty dish as the keylight, a Profoto D1 monolight in a globe for background, a small smoke machine and daylight fill. Jockeys are generally around 4 feet tall and a lack of height was the last thing I wanted to depict so a very low angle was chosen. I left the posing mostly to the jockeys as I wanted a personal element to come through in regards to how they felt about their sport.