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Athletic Nudes with Jeff

Here's a couple of images from last night's athletic nude session with Jeff.  Jeff cut down a little for the shoot but mostly walks around looking like this.

We went with a simple 3 light setup to highlight the different muscle groups. Two gridded softboxes in the back and a beauty dish out front. If I had it to do over again I might have used the 7' parabolic on the front as the model is 6'3" and the fall off from the beauty dish is more severe. I'm very happy with the images and I'll have more edited in a couple of weeks.

Muscles under load provide great pictures.

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Athletic Nudes with Alishia (NSFW)

Fresh off you win at the OPA Natural Provincial Chapionships in the Tall Figure class, Alishia came into studio to do some fitness images with me as well as some athletic nudes. Her physique was outstanding, poses were dead on and she had a mega-watt smile. It's great working with someone so athletic because they really know how to pose in space and flex up in just the right way.

I've said it before and will again, it is always so humbling to have someone trust you with their image in this fashion.

An extremely difficult pose, requiring balance, strength and endurance to hold.

I loved the full body flex she achieved with this pose.

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Boxing at the Powerade Centre with Lee Baxter Promotions

I got the opportunity to shoot Lee Baxter Promotions' last show in Brampton at the Powerade Centre. It was some of the most beautiful light I've ever shot boxing in. A good night of fights with lots of action.

Bout #1 - Bradley Wilcox vs Miguel Angel Cobarrubias

Bout #2 - Nick Fantauzzi vs Tyler O'Donnell

Bout #3 - Jessie Wilcox vs. Juan Carlos Chavira

Bout #4 - Kane Heron vs. Cesar Chavez

Bout #5 - Mladen Milias vs. Hector Aguilar

Bout #6 - Christian M'Billi vs Genaro Quiroga

Bout #7 - Samuel Vagas vs. Ali Funeka - WBA NABA Welterweight Title Fight

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Top Down Shoot with Jaclyn (NSFW)

I wanted to try a different lighting scheme and camera perspective than I normally use. Jaclyn was kind enough to help me out with it even though the space and setup were restrictive to her movements. She worked really hard at posing with the constraints of the frame. She did a great job coming up with compelling poses.

I mounted the camera on a boom and shot straight down. For lighting I used two very large softboxes, gelled with red, horizontally oriented, cross lighting the model at camera left head and camera foot. Many thanks to Sean for helping me with the setup, including the heavy lifting.

Jaclyn and I went through the images and picked out some great images to edit

One of my favourites from the shoot.

We were testing the setup, notice the socks to keep the model warm.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Fitness Photos Shoot with Carol

Carol competed at the Barrie OPA show in July and wanted to get some fitness pictures done to commemorate the moment. We went to Showtyme Fitness to do the photos. Ian was a great host as always. We shot a variety of exercises, poses and lighting setup at the gym and then hit the nearby Thames River for a few outdoor pictures. Carol was in great shape and finished 3rd in her class and qualifies for the Provincials. It was a lot of fun and very high energy. She trains hard and it showed in the pictures.

MUA: Amanda from Beauty Bomb Glam

Enjoying the beautiful afternoon at the Thames River.

Showing off the back and arms.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Fitness Weekend

I spent the last weekend shooting fitness photos. 6 sessions between Thursday and Sunday. I'm really happy with how they turned out. I'll be working on proofs this week for my clients. A theme kind of emerged on Saturday and Sunday. The backs of some of the models were just fantastic. It's the muscle group that is hardest to see when working out and most people are truly amazed when the see a good picture of their back. 

I shot their backs on a black background with a high contrast black and white treatment on the edit to really bring out all of the size and depth of the muscles.

I shoot this topless to accentuate the muscles and to highlight the hard work and dedication the models have invested in themselves. The images show power and athleticism and are not meant to be salatious.

1. Jamie
2. Alishia
3. Lacia

Jamie

Alishia

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Poolside with April

Internationally published model April Hutchinson and I decided to shoot in her pool last night. She of course killed it. We did a lot of natural light, but I did bring along a little flash to just make things pop. Speedlight and an 18" softbox helped light her up. Tonight was a lot about playing around with various styles, lighting, patterns, perspectives etc.

We're planing on submitting images from the session and working on our next photo shoot.

After getting some great images, she showed me some of her latest photos. As good a model she is, she's a better photographer. Her photography skills are so good and her bookshelf is littered with books than she's been published in.

April up on the pool, the blue water really made her eyes pop.

Patterns, shapes, colours and perspective

Strong colours, strong poses, strong images

I swear the wall was about to fall down

I swear the wall was about to fall down

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Work Selected for Slideluck London Ontario

My work in Athletic Nudes was selected to be displayed at the Slideluck London ON dinner and presentation on August 17th.

For more details: www.facebook.com/SlideluckLondonOntario

It would be great to see some friendly faces at the event.

Slideluck, London ON announces its' participating artists.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Teaser Image from Shoot with Jaclyn

I wanted to try a different lighting scheme and camera perspective than I normally use. Jaclyn was kind enough to help me out with it even though the space and setup were restrictive to her movements.

I mounted the camera on a boom and shot straight down. For lighting I used two very large softboxes, gelled with red, horizontally oriented, cross lighting the model at camera left head and camera foot. Many thanks to Sean for helping me with the setup, including the heavy lifting.

This is the first image I edited out of the session.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Pet Portrait with Decker

Decker, a Portuguese Cattle Dog, came into the studio last week for some pet portraits. He was super well behaved and liked exploring the studio. We got some really nice pictures that captured his personality.

Pet portraits, not just general pet photography, is a service I am now offering.

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Beauty and Braun - Full Set (Not Safe For Work)

Earlier this year a couple of models came into studio for some figure study work. It ended up being a great collaboration so at the end of the shoot we decided to self-publish a small magazine of the shoot for fun.

Link to the publication: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/6877027/5e6a5524b9b2bdbef44d262c3a3b00d54cd88f03

Male model: Tank Joey
Female model: Jaclyn Danielle
Photographer: Mark Ruddick
Assistant: Mel @digitalgeekgirl

Front cover of the magazine

Back cover of the magazine

Back cover of the magazine

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Fitness Photos with Annastasia

Emerging model Annastasia came into the studio for a fitness photo shoot. She really learned fast and her posing really became very fluid by the time the shoot ended. We both had a lot of fun working together and got some great images.

MUA: Sessily Berezowski

Model Annastasia showing off her physique in a high key set.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Knock out Kidney Disease Posters

A couple of weeks ago Jamie Champion of Prospect Fighting Championship came to me about shooting the promo pictures for his upcoming event "Knock out Kidney Disease" in conjunction with Showdown in the Downtown. Mattia Del Cul-Hovorka was selected as the model and we decided to take the pictures at Warriors' Boxing and Fitness in London, ON. It is going to be a dinner / kickboxing event.

We got a bunch of really good pictures, then selected a few really good ones and got to work on creating the posters. We came up with 2 similar posters featuring the photography. I'm really happy with how they turned out.

Version 1 of the Poster featuring a flying knee.

Version 2, the High Kick.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Amatuer Boxing at Warriors' Boxing

Rob Caron, owner of Warriors' Boxing and Fitness in London, ON put on a great boxing show Saturday night. The event was sanction by Boxing Ontario. It was an exciting night of fights with 3 stoppages, Scott Lamont's boxing debut and an absolute slug-fest for the main event. The event was well attended by over 300 people. I'm really looking forward to the next event.

Bout #1

Bout #2

Bout #3

Bout #4 - Scott Lamont

Bout #5

Bout #6

Bout #7

Bout #8

Bout #9

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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Spartan Cosplay with Lori for a Cause

Fitness model and all around bad-ass, Lori, came down from Ottawa to shoot her new cosplay with me. Lori is touring with the costume and setting up shoots all over the province and donating the proceeds to a military charity. It is a great cause and I'll be donating some prints to the charity as well. If you are interested in a print, let me know.

Lori built her costume from scratch, no pre-made pieces on this one. It looks fantastic and photographs even better. Message her to setup your own shoot. She really had the physique to pull this off as a fitness competitor.

A close up of the helmet, 4 light setup including an underlight through a grid.

- Mark Ruddick Photography is a full service London, Ontario photographer who specializes in fitness, boxing and mma photography

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