Mark Ruddick Mark Ruddick

Soccer Shoot

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to shoot with a young soccer player who has made the Filipino U-16 National soccer team. She and her family were great to work with. We did a combination of action and posed shots for her media needs. I really enjoy working with athletes because of their natural posing ability and their attitude for getting the shot perfect.

We shot some of the images on white and some on black.

We got the safe posed pictures first and then pulled out the crash mat and got some action pictures. The reason I chose the strobe lights I did was the speed at which the flash. For the action images the flash duration was faster than 1/5000th of a second, freezing all of the motion. I used a small aperture to block out all of the light other than the strobes.

Before editing

Final image

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Mark Ruddick Mark Ruddick

Promo Shoot with 3 Lions Promotions

I went down to Hamilton recently to shot promotional pictures for 3 Lions Promotions for there upcoming show on October 1st. Steeltown Boxing Gym was very welcoming as I shot with Dylan Rushton, Josh O'Reilly, Kevin Higson, Jesse Wicox and Steve Wilcox. I'll post up the poster material once it has been set. Right now I just have a short video clip.

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Mark Ruddick Mark Ruddick

Promo Pictures for an Actress

This last weekend I was in Toronto shooting an actress (Karine Botelho Costa) for an upcoming movie (A Sense of Purpose Fighting for our Lives). It was a tough shoot as the studio we had booked never showed up. We ended up using my hotel suite, which my wife was kind enough to vacate. It ended up turning out well and we shot several looks. 

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