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Teaser Image from Shoot with Scarlett Edwards

I had a great shoot last night with Scarlett Edwards, a talented model. I was trying out some single light techniques to improve my lighting skills. For the image below I used a single strobe on a boom directly over the model. The light had a gridded reflector and barndoors to shape the light. We tried a lot of different poses. The idea was to illuminate the shoulders and upper buttocks while keeping the back in shadow. Initially all of the images were to be shot in black and white, but when I saw how her red hair popped off the black background, I had to go with colour.

I'll eventually post more from the set, but they will not be SFW or Facebook friendly.

F11 / 1/200th / ISO 100 - gridded reflector right above the model.

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Catalogue Shoot for Ohlinda

We shot catalogue images for bikini and fitness wear for Ohlinda. We had a great time and shot over 50 outfits in total.

Model: Ilona Fajkowska
Styling & Wardrobe: Miriam de Souza
Makeup: Melissa O'Leary
Hair: Jessica Marie Avolio

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PAFC 4 - In the Books

Dozens of posters, 14 Fights, 4 title fight, a marathon editing session and PAFC 4 is in the books. I had a great time at the event and the London Music Hall was a wonderful venue. Thanks to Jamie Champion for a great night of fights. Below are a few of my favourites from the night.

If anyone wants prints, just let me know.

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PAFC 4 - Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow night is PAFC 4 at the London Music Hall. You can't buy tickets, but you can watch the PPV. This card is stacked with 4 belts being handed out. Top to bottom exciting fights. I'm really looking forward to the fights which range from Strawweight all the way to Super Heavyweight. I was glad to be part of the team for photographing and making the event posters. In addition I did up a banner for one of the fight teams participating.

Good luck tomorrow to all of the combatants.

Main Event
Light-Heavyweight Title Fight (205)
Nathan Grotenhuis vs. Tyler Kerr

Co-Main Event
Middleweight Title Fight (185)
Michael Guermoudi vs. Tobin Cornelius

Super-Heavyweight Title Fight (265+)
Lawrence Bonds vs. Jeff Fuchs

Strawweight Title Fight (115)
Tia Ardemia Biason vs. Anniestasia Nikolakakos

Calvin Reddick-Primo Vs. Scott Lamont

Leo Rodriguez vs. Gino Ghalehpardaz

Cody Chovancek vs. Jessie McPhee

Noah Crosswell vs. Matty Hovorka

Eugene Frisa vs. Ahmed Shishani

Courtney Hoefnagels vs. Colleen Mayson

Nigel Crosswell vs. Nate Ledger

Justin Ritchie vs. Bruce Miano

Isabelle Lacroix vs. Karolyn Pham

 

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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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Fitness Art with Tank Joey - Maybe NSFW

I'm working on a series of implied nudes of various athletes as a figure study. I'm not sure where it will end up but I'm hoping to shoot it for a few years at least. I had the opportunity to work with local athlete, artist and gym owner Tank Joey who was just finishing up a North American modelling tour. I'm extremely grateful to have worked with such an experienced model for this project and one with as rabid a following as he has. The images turned out great. I really appreciate every athlete who comes out to help with this project.

Below are a few of the images we captured and we'll probably do some limited edition prints of select ones.

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Fitness Weekend 2016

The OPA Natural Championships were on Saturday in London Ontario and we were certainly busy in studio with 6 hours of business on Saturday and a marathon 14 hours on Sunday. It was exhausting, but in a good way. I'll have the proofs back to the clients this week and so far they really like the images they have seen. I met so many wonderful people this weekend and I am grateful to them for their trust that I would handle their image with care.

Below are a few teaser images from some of the shoots this weekend. (some of them are pretty much straight out of the camera)

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Fitness Weekend

The Ontario Physique Association is holding the Natural Provincial Championships in London, ON this weekend. It is a busy weekend for me as I am having 15 people come through the studio this weekend for shoots, including a number of competitors I have shot before. It is an exciting time and I'm looking forward to it. 

Below are a couple of pictures from last year's fitness weekend.

Mary Valid

Marcin

France Berube

Tank Fitness

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DO Boxing Show

Dameon Okposio of the DO Boxing Show came down last week to shoot with me bringing boxers Andre Pena and Tyrone Bradshaw. Video was shot!

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PAFC 4 - VS Posters

I did a series of VS posters for PAFC's upcoming sold out event on August 13th at the London Music Hall. The event is available on Pay-per-View. I'm pretty stoked for some of these fights and I highly recommend buying the PPV.

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Pro Boxing with Lee Baxter in Toronto

I had a great time in Toronto last night at the Danforth Music Hall watching Lee Baxter's show. It's always good to see so many friends at these fights. I'm looking forward to the next show in this series. I might have taken a couple of pictures while I was there too.

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Pro Boxing in Toronto - Lee Baxter

Tonight I'll be shooting Lee Baxter's show in Toronto at the Danforth Music Hall. The images below are a throw back to Lee's last show featuring Samuel Vargas and Brandon Brewer. Tonight's fights feature Steve Wilcox and Tim Cronin. It should be a good night and I'll see you ringside!

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DO Boxing

The other night Dameon Okposio of DO Boxing and Below the Belt Magazine came down to the studio to shoot with boxer Andre Pena and boxing coach Tyrone Bradeshaw from UFC Gym in Mississauga. We had a great time shooting photos and videos and then went out for dinner afterwards. It is always good to see Dameon and we're always trading business ideas. Below is a video Dameon shot from his DO Boxing show.

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Athletes and Models Magazine

Athletes and Models Magazine published some of my photos of fitness competitor Ilona. We shot in May just after here show. (I mean just after, she came from the show to the studio) It was good shoot and she had a surprising amount of energy for just having competed.

Summer Issue

Model: Melissa Vienneau Photographer: Healthy Vision Photography

These images are the ones I took of Ilona.

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Future Combat Stars - MMA

I went down to Windsor, ON to photograph the fights at Future Combat Stars #7. It was an enthusiastic crowd in Windsor. They really seemed to know their MMA. 8 fights took place including a couple of exhibitions. There were no slow fights and everyone came to bang. Technically is was the most challenging lighting I have ever shot in. The in fight pictures were shot at ISO 5000, which is not ideal, but you soldier through. Below are a few of the good shots from the day. The event ended at 6PM and the images were done and delivered at 12 Midnight, including a 2 hour drive back to London.

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