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My First Boxing Show

September 7, 2014 - Boomerz Boxing Club puts on a Charity Boxing match for or Leukemia and Lymphoma research. It is a Charity close to the Heart of Lawrence Boom. This was my first boxing show ever for photography. I was welcomed be a lot of great people and it was interesting to go back through and see how many of the people from this event I've got to know. I enjoy the amateur boxing and I hope to keep shooting it for fun, even though the light is always challenging.

Here are a few of my favourites from that day.

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Night Sky Photography

I went out Labour Day to try my hand at shooting the Milky Way. I met up with pro photography Jay Terry to help me out with settings and ideas. We drove out to Fingal after dark and setup in pretty much pitch black. Once the moon went down we started shooting. Coyotes and foxes kept us company, until some midnight picnicers showed up. It was fun shooting this, now I just need to figure out how to clean up the noise a little better. 

10mm / F4 / ISO 2000 / 25 sec exposure

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Warriors' Boxing

I went down to Warriors Boxing last week to shoot some sparring and workouts. Warriors is always a great place to photograph in. Rob Caron is very welcoming. It is a lot of fun to go to the local boxing clubs and shoot, you get to meet a lot different people.

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Athlete Series

I am working on a long term project with different athletes to photograph their physiques in implied nudes in black and white. The main point is to show off the power and athleticism and not to be salacious. Tyrone was an awesome model for this project and really impressed me with this jumps and body control. Also he could spin the basketball on his finger, which was really cool.

I am looking for athletes, male and female, from any athletic discipline for this project. Contact me if interested.

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Working with VVV Fight Co

I went down to Toronto Saturday to shoot with VVV Fight Co. We shot at the UMAC gym in Scarborough, great place, really spacious, lots of different activity areas. Gregg had a tonne of cool clothing for our models (All competitors) to wear. I was really impressed with the quality of the clothing, especially the rash guards and gis. We shot some liftestyle, some catalogue and some action shots. It was a great afternoon and the VVV people are awesome to deal with.

Closeup of Greg's hands and important tool in BJJ

Conquer!

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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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