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Boxing at Warriors

Amateur boxing at Warriors Boxing and Fitness on Saturday night, sanctioned by Boxing Ontario. There were 12 exciting fights and some really good match making. I was ring side for the hostilities. Here are a couple of the select images.

Dan getting hit with a clean punch

Even the bucket has an opinion.

Straight left between the gloves.

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Nude Ballerina (NSFW)

I was going back through some images from last year and came across this picture. I liked it and thought I would share.

Annelie warming up

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

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Munda Jiu Jitsu Seminar and Grading

Chris Lee Byrne of Munda Jiu Jitsu invited me down to photograph their seminar and grading with Professor Josh Russell. Munda Jiu Jitsu has been around for a few years in London, ON and is one of the most active gyms in London for competing, both in MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Professor Josh Russell

Josh Russell explains the technique

Owner and head trainer Chris Lee Byrne

Chris earned a stripe on his brown belt.

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Euro Sun Tanning London Ring Girl Contest

At the latest Prospect Fighting Championship card there was a ring girl contest put on with Euro Sun Tanning London. Brianna won the contest and part of the prize was a photo shoot with me.

Hair and makeup were provided by: Glamourous Goddess
Tanning provided by: Euro Sun Tanning London

Brianna with the championship belt.

Her boyfriend got in on the photo shoot while we were in the gym.

Here's a few pictures of Brianna working as a ring girl the night of the show.

Announcing the second round.

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

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Head Shots

In addition to my fitness photos and fight promotional work I do offer business head shots. I find head shots to be an enjoyable session. I get to become your best friend for about 30 minutes as we go through a variety of outfits and poses to make the client's first impression the best possible. I use a few different simple backdrops and good lighting to bring out their best features.

I always suggest hair and makeup for me head shot clients as the results are much better. My go to people are Melissa O Makeup and Jessica Marie Hairstyling.

Danielle O'Dea

Rob Wakeling

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

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Oxygen Magazine

Kim Miller and I were published in the most recent edition of Oxygen Magazine. It's not a big picture, but it is in a big magazine, so it was very cool.

As the image appears in the magazine.

Here is the original image.

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

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Lighting fun with Karate Black Belt Alysha

Alysha came back into the studio after our chance meeting a couple of weeks ago to play with some great kicks. We decided to try some long exposure, multiple exposure and fog lighting. Alysha is incredibly skilled and has perfect control of her motion so she was an ideal candidate for this lighting.

A shout out to my lighting mentor Sean Allot who showed me so much about lighting that I'm able to experiment like this properly.

Thanks to Stephen Yule for being a most excellent assistant last night.

Here are a few images and a behind the scenes video from last night.

The final image from the video

More long exposure

Jumping side kick in the fog

Karate Stance

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

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Mr. Throwdown - Pete Trevino

A good friend of mine Pete Trevino - a.k.a Mr. Throwdown stopped by the studio before we worked PFC 9 together. Pete is a super talented ring announcer who's done work all over the US and Canada including PPV events with ShoBox. We wanted to get some new promo pictures for Pete, showing off his signature wardrobe.

Pete Trevino drops the mic.

3 rounds of less

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

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Olds Cutlass 442

I had an opportunity to photograph an Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 over looking Lake Erie. I've not had a lot of results photographing vehicles so I did a lot studying to be able to shoot this car. We did some pictures at the Port Glasgow Marina and some on private property. I think they turned out very well.

Olds Cutlass 442

Overlooking Lake Erie

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

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Testing New Equipment

I bought a fog machine the other day. I lost the use of one when I moved studios. Matt from London Muay Thai came over to test the setup. We got some great pictures, Matt has good technique.

Matt delivers the standing knee.

Spinning kick

Teep

Matt gives a flying knee

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PFC 9

Saturday night, Prospect Fighting Championships put on a great card. I had the opportunity to hang out and shoot the event.  Great pictures and great people.

Benny and Matt from London Muay Thai

Cody taking the fight to his opponent

Gord Cunningham winning the light heavyweight title.

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Fitness Shoot with Sara

Sara was the last customer I had at the old studio. We had shot together before while working with VVV Fight Co. Sara is a blue belt in BJJ under Topp Performance. Sara wanted to show off her strong, maintainable, athletic physique. So has a good combination of muscle, cardio and flexibility.

Great v shape.

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

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Athlete / Trainer Derick Mitchell

Trainer Derick Mitchell came into the studio for some fitness photos and to show off his crazy athleticism. He had an incredible combination of strength, flexibility and motion. We got some really dynamic shots and plan on more shoots in the future. Derick is a super high energy guy who worked hard in the high heat. Here's a quick look at a couple night of pictures.

Trainer Derick doing a superman push up. I left the shutter open for 2 seconds and triggered the flash twice to get the double exposure and motion blur.

Super flexible

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

Blurry photos are your worst enemy. It never fails to happen, everything is going great, and you are loving what you are getting. Then You Load the Images on Your Computer and Are So Disappointed: check out this blog post by Pixpa on motion blur featuring tips on managing shutter speed and camera shake to get the best blurry photos.

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Men's Fitness with Tony

Tony came into the studio want to get a variety of pictures done, the start of a modelling portfolio. We used a bunch of different backgrounds, wardrobe and lighting to get a wide array of images for him.

Head shot.

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

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Fighter Pictures with Frank

Frank is a member at Warrior's Boxing and Fitness, where my studio is located and he wanted some simple fighter pictures for his social media. So I went out into the gym and we shot some of him working the heavy bag. Frank really hits the bag hard and there were a lot of frames of him bending the bag.

Frank bending the bag with a punch.

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

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