JAMES HODGINS PHOTOGRAPHY

We had another great day jam packed with live sessions, presentations and of course some great learning.  I started off the morning with my presentation on Off Camera Flash (Which we did the day before), and then we hit the studio for some studio portraits.  The gorgeous actress  Melissa McIntyre from Degrassi: The Next Generation & “Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye” was nice enough to come in and model for my class.  We captured some great portraits off her in a very short time explaining all the basics of studio lighting.  After lunch we then hit the downtown core of St.Catherines with my class and fellow NoBs’r and photographer Charles Vandersluys to see if we could find new locations to shoot in.  We were looking for a little piece of heaven in some not so heavenly places and it is exactly what we found.  We a great subject to photograph with a few different styles of outfits.

Today I am presenting my presentation Branding and Promotions and then this afternoon Melissa is coming back for another session downtown in a really cool black dress.  If we have time this evening I then doing another on location shoot with my friend Allen Rothwell.

Here are some images from yesterday.

“Dana MacDonald”

“Melissa MacIntyre”

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Meghann is in town this weekend from Thunder Bay.  She is competing in the Sudbury Northern Ontario Bodybuilding Trounament tomorrow at the frazer auditorium, but before that she wanted some images for portfolio.  So off we went around Sudbury finding cool locations to photograph.  We had alot of fun with this session, it was sunny, it rainded, and Ramsey lake is COLD!!  Good luck tomorrow Meghann and to all the other athletes.  I know Troy Thompson of www.trainedbytroy.com has alot of atheletes competing this weekend so Troy, good luck to you too.

Gary came into the studio yesterday for a new headshot.   Actually “A” headshot since he has never had one before.  We had a great time and came up with a headshot along with a few other images he wanted to have for his new portfolio.  He’s of to Toronto  tomorrow as he as 4 interviews with talent agencies.    This guy works fast.

You will remember “Maggie” from my Sassifras Ottawa session. Here are the other images I did of the “Katie Holmes” look alike.
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Here is another image from our “Sassifras Session”.  We are extremely busy at the moment, but I will try to go through all the images next week and have some more for you.  For this image I wanted to highlight her eyes as well as the artwork on her back.  The texture overlay was just to add a little “grit” to the overal image.