Sudbury Ontario Photographer
Well, we JUST finished with our inpromptu “In The House” photoshoot on our day off from the PPO Convention. We had a blast, used every inch of this house, and IMO came up with some pretty kick*ss images. More to come.
Pretty well in that order too. It’s 9:35 am, we have a bunch of models showing up for a shoot, but I thought I would take a quick windowlight portrait of Guy’s daughter Joelle (who is also an excellent photographer). This was taken in the living room with window light and a reflector. Stay tuned today, we will have many more images from today.
August 16th – 20th is Niagara School Of Imaging week at Brock University in St. Catherines. Read all about it here http://niagaraschool.com/ I will instructing a course on Weddings, On Location Portraits, Off Camera Flash techniques and much much more. We had a BLAST last year and created some outstanding images. If your thinking of coming, contact Rick or Ian soon as I know seats are filling up fast for this event.
I was digging through my archives today and came across this image I took of Sandra. I thought I would workflow this differently this time and this is what I came up with. It’s great to go back into the archives and apply new techniques to old images. You can come up so many different variations for 1 image.
Well the Professional Photographers of Ontario print competition is next week in Ottawa and of course I leave it to the last minute to get my images ready. These are the 4 images I have chosen to submit.
“A Diving Discovery”
“Awaiting The Moment”
“Model For A Day”
“Out Of Focus”
On another note, NexGen Lab (which is our custom lab) has agreed to be one of my official sponsors for my 2009 speaking engagements. They will also be displaying some of my images in their tradeshow booths at PPO in Ottawa this month and PPOC Regina in May.
I would like to personally congratulate my friend Michael of Michael Blinn Photography who recently took 3rd place at our PPO Branch seminar yesterday. He was up on some stiff competition as there were MANY print entries at this event. Michael scored 1 merit (which took 3rd place, and 3 accepted prints). Rob Corrado of Corrvision (another fellow photographer whom I have shared the speaker roster with at Niagara School Of Imaging, he is also coming back for the 2009 season) put on a great seminar on commercial photographer with 2 live portrait sessions. Myself, Rob Provencher, Tony Galic, Erik Lovin & Mike Dupont were the judges for this great seminar and we were all glad to see a great turn-out. Congratulations again Mickey!!!
Pictured below: Myself, Michael Blinn & Rob Provencher
It’s Monday, and tomorrow we official kick off the business season of 2009. Looking back on the last year has been a real joy. Wow, did we do alot in the last 12 months. A new website, more commercial clients, many many kickass weddings, and a wackload of travelin. I’m looking forward to pushing on and making 2009 the best yet so hold on to your trousers. This week I am sending out 7 16×20 prints to be entered in the WPPI (Wedding Portrat Photographers International) print competition this Febuary in Las Vegas. This will be the 4th time going to WPPI and the second time entering (last time I took 3rd place commercial and 3 Accolades of Excellence). I am also a featured vendor in the tradeshow with my co-founded business www.nobsphotosuccess.com. Although I’m not a big fan of Las Vegas I am a big fan of hanging out with a great group of photographers and creating some dynamic images in new found locations. Anyways, here are the prints I am entering.
”Bad Acting”
“Hydroman”
“Lollipop Girl”
“One model, one graffiti wall, & one can of hairspray”
“Awaiting the moment”
“Stairway to wedding”
“Serenity Sails”
We want to wish you all a fabulous 2009
We have added a new email subscription (look in the right side-bar) so that you can be emailed daily with any new posts to the hodgeblog. We did have another formate, but we found it very unstable. Feedblitz is alot more simplified and streamlined. No more tinkle bells, just a straight email that shows you our new posts.
As we are off this week so I have no new images to post I decided to go back a year and see what I captured over the holidays. I will now dub thee post the “Hodgeblog Flashback” and every so often I will go back a year and post some images from that time. Here are just a few of the many sessions I had over Xmas holidays 2007.
My stepbrother Mathew was in town for a few days so I took the opportunity to play in the studio. A quick session before we headed out for supper, but we did get some cool images.
Mat being serious.
Mat not so serious.
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