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Fitness Photography with Carolyn

I had shot with Carolyn earlier this year and she wanted to come back and do some more fitness photos. She had a lot of ideas on the poses and styles she wanted to photograph so we really zeroed in on her ideas. The studio has a lot of fitness equipment to use during shoots and I think we went through a lot of it. Carolyn was in great shape and looked awesome

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PFC 5 - Fight Week

Now less than a week away from the action next Sunday at the London Music Hall. PFC 5 "Deck the Halls with Beer and Brawls" is coming! Lots of exciting fights on the card and I will be cageside as always taking the pictures. PFC basically puts on a pro show with amateur rules, fighters walk straight out to the cage in front of a 30' video wall with hundreds of screaming fans. For those who can't make it, the event will be on PPV at www.prospectfights.com.

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Preview from Last Weekend

Last Saturday I had a couple of people come into studio for fitness shoots. First up was Jeff of Ontario Muscle. Jeff has had a great transformation over the last couple of years and wanted to document his hard work.

Jeff has worked especially hard on getting his legs in great shape.

Next up was Carolyn. She an I have shot before. Last time it was all about the athletics, this time she wanted to show a softer side while still being strong. I think we accomplished that.

Showing off her work on the back muscles.

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Implied work with Jaclyn

Jaclyn a long boarder came into the studio a couple of weeks ago to shoot some implied nudes with her boards. She was a great model, lots of energy and I think we got some really strong images.

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ACE Fights - The Action

With the Ontario Athletic Commission making life difficult for people putting on professional mixed martial arts shows it is great that Ontario has such a large amateur scene. Promoters like ACE give the fighters and fans an outlet for mixed martial arts in Ontario. Last Friday 28 fighters got to test themselves in front of 100's of fans at Nashville North. Last year there were close to 25 AMMA shows in Ontario, from Windsor to Kingston and North to Sault Ste Marie. Make sure to get out and support the local promotions fighting to keep MMA alive in Ontario.

Below are some of the images I captured from the evening.

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ACE Fights - The Winners

Friday night I was asked to shoot ACE Fights' show in Georgetown at Nashville North. I had shot their first show way and was happy to be back there. There were 14 fight and the main card had lots of action. I saw all of my friends from AMMAO that night. I like shooting the perspective of shooting through the cage, especially when the fight goes to the ground.

Shout out to Woodrow James for reffing all 14 fights, the man worked hard.

I have one more MMA show to do in December to round out my fight schedule for the year. As of the last fight on Friday I'm at 369 fights photographed.

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Portraits with Daria

Daria came to London and I've been a fan of her work for a while, so I had to shoot with her. We did some portrait work and I'm really happy with the results. She's a very nice person and a great model.

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Maple City Cagefighting 4

Saturday I went down to shoot Maple City Cagefighting's 4th event. Thomas Armstrong puts on a good show and the Chatham crowd is always rowdy and ready to watch some fights. 6 fights ended in the first round making for a don't blink kind of night. It's always really easy to shoot with that kind of action.

Their next event is February 25th, 2017, already booked off in my calendar.

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Couples Fitness

I really enjoy photographing the genre of couples fitness. It is really fun to see the two people work together and encourage each other. Two fitness models really bring a different energy to the shoot.

Mark Ruddick Photography is a Fitness and Fight photographer, located in London, Ontario and servicing from Detroit to Toronto.

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Victory - Maple City Cagefighting - 29 Winners

On Saturday November 5th, I'll be shooting my fourth Maple City Cagefighting show out of Chatham, ON. Thomas Armstrong always puts on an entertaining card and this show should be a sell out as well. (Only a few tickets left) Once the fights start I'll be cage side ready to photograph the fights.

Maple City Cagefighting promotes Amateur Mixed Martial Arts fights out of Chatham, Ontario under the AMMAO organization. (Amateur Mixed Martial Arts of Ontario) Mark Ruddick Photography is a Fight and Fitness photography business out of London, Ontario, servicing from Detroit to Toronto.

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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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ACE Fights

I went down to MAFA in Mississauga yesterday to shoot promo pictures for ACE Fights. I shot ACE's first show back in March of 2015 and I'll be shooting their next show on Nov 11th at Nashville North.

It's always fun to hang out with a bunch of fighters getting ready for an event. I'm looking forward to the show.

Fooling around in between takes.

Throwback to the first ACE Fighting show in March, 2015.

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Makeup Shoot

Once in a while I like to break away from the fights and fitness stuff and play with something different. I put together a team to do a Fall shoot.

Model: Ally Braun
Makeup: Melissa O'Leary
Hair: Jessica Marie Avolio
Photographer: Mark Ruddick

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A Few More Images from my Fitness Shoot with Eden

A few more images from my summer fitness shoot with Eden. These pictures were just delivered to her plaque mounted at 16x20. They look fantastic. I really encourage my clients to print their pictures. There's a real emotional impact seeing a large print. We shot the images at FlexPlex Canada. At the bottom is a behind the scenes video of on of the images.

Client image of the actual pictures plaque mounted.

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