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Unless you have a pre-teen daughter, you may not know about Victoria Justice, the 18 year old actress and singer on the Nickelodeon TV show, Victorious. If you do, you probably know about High School Musical, the widly successful Disney Channel television film that spawned two sequels and launched the careers of Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens and a genre of television and publicity. I mention all of this because for the last five years, it has been my pleasure to host Tiger Beat and Bop magazines shoots at my McCaddenSpace for all of the previously mentioned teen stars and then some. Victoria...


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As a studio manager and photographer at McCaddenspace studio, clients looking for a photo studio in Hollywood, frequently ask me about renting lighting gear in my studio. I have full line of older Norman lights that I have been using for years. Most shooters these days love Profoto, but why? What are the advantages of Profoto? There are many, many choices of light modifiers, zoom reflectors and strobe heads and they are easy to rent almost everywhere. Profoto packs sport power variators over a 10 stop range and 20 frames/second recycling time (with the Pro-8A 2400), as well as built-in radio...


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If you're into cars and hot women, you might want to check out the October issue of Dub magazine with model, Amber Rose on the cover. It was shot here at McCaddenSpace Studio, of course, and they made full use of the 29' x 24' cove or cyc walls for their shoot by Michael Vincent, the photographer on the shoot. In case you're wondering, the 12' x 12' roll-up door and the ramp made this custom Chevy easy breezy to roll in. Amber was great to work with as was the entire Dub Magazine crew. Here are some shots to show what I mean:


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I am so very pleased when The Groundlings come to my studio. Not that they couldn't rent any photo studio in Los Angeles, but they seem to be at home here even though their stage is about a mile away. They are an insanely talented and funny improv and comedy theater group that has been around for 36 years, although their senior members have moved on to a bigger spotlight since then. Every time that they come here to take publicity shots for a new show, I have to go and get tickets to see what their characters are all about! They are really that funny - funnier than Saturday Night Live, even though...


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Eva was here. Eva Mendes to most, she is just Eva to me. She is as beautiful as she is charming and in fact, a little shy. Which, of course, adds to her charm. Eva was photographed by the very capable and talented, Gilles Toucas, who was nice enough to provide me with some of the photos from the shoot. Gilles is always very accommodating to everyone if possible, so I thank him for allowing me to display his work. If you are visiting this page to see pictures of Eva, that's cool, but if you'd like to schedule your own photoshoot or rent our photo studio In Los Angeles, you may do so, by calling...


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