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Couple Fitness Shoot Video

Last month I did a couples fitness shoot with Rob & Kristy. He's a personal trainer and she's a fitness competitor. I've shot with them both before and we have a very relaxed, friendly vibe. I had a video of the session made to show potential clients how fun and easy a fitness session is. I hope you enjoy.

Couples fitness shoot with Internet Famous Sportswear.
Video shot and edited by Elijah Agathos (eagathos93@gmail.com) 

You can see the final images here.

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Boxing in the GTA

United Promotions Boxing put on another show at the Hershey Centre Saturday night. I got to see lots of friends there including two of them facing off in the ring and fighting to a draw. It was a good night of fights which saw Ryan Young capture the Canadian Super Welterweight Championship. Photographing ringside is really great and is the best "seat" in the house. I tried a couple of different lenses and settings on Saturday and really enjoyed the results.

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Teaser Images for Athletic Series with MacKenna

Boxer / Kick boxer MacKenna came into studio a couple of weeks ago to shoot some general purpose images and for my implied nude athlete series. MacKenna's a natural athlete with good body awareness in space. We hit the standard poses and then tried for a couple fun ones.

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Photo Shoot with Pro Boxer Winston Matthews

Professional Boxer Winston Matthews came down to the studio last night for some promo work before his next fight Saturday night against another friend Steve Rainford. Jus Win looked to be in great shape and was super relaxed. I'm looking forward to shooting the fights Saturday night in Mississauga on the United Promotions Card.

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Teaser Images with Jala

Model, fitness model and paddle boarder Jala came a very long way to shoot with me last week. She an awesome model who has been doing this for quite a while. Jala is in great shape and hit poses perfectly. Below are a couple of early images from the shoot.

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Athletic Figure Shoot with Angela

I had the opportunity to work with Angela Shen yesterday on my implied nude athletic series. Angela is a former track athlete and had some great poses. She worked really hard as some of the poses / movements were challenging. She is a great model and I am really please how these images turned out.

The images were shot on a black background, generally a 3 light setup with strong rim lighting. F11 / 1/200th / ISO 100.

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Couples Fitness with Rob & Kristy

Last month I did a couples fitness shoot with Rob & Kristy. He's a personal trainer and she's a fitness competitor. I've shot with them both before and we have a very relaxed, friendly vibe. We have a video of the shoot coming out in a couple of weeks, but I thought I would post some of the pictures now. I love photographing couples fitness.

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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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