Click45 - Jason Beaudoin

Charles Zuckermann
Jan 13
2 min read

Click45 is a chance for me to experiment with my photography, play with different ideas, locations, lighting, wardrobes, collaborators, and subjects to better learn how to tell the stories I wish to tell.

Subject: Jason Beaudoin

Occupation: Actor & Artist

Photographer: Charles Zuckermann

Editors: Bethany Brown & Charles Zuckermann

Sponsored by Peakmode PR

Shot with a Canon 1DX Mark iii and available light.

How Jason and I Clicked

Well, well… when I first met Jason—like with a lot of my close friends—it wasn’t really a match made in heaven. In fact, it wasn’t even that good. Skip ahead a few years, and we found ourselves both tenants at the City Centre Artists Lodge. Turns out a few beers, whiskeys, and a lot of chinwagging can mend plenty of fences—not to mention start a great friendship. Proud to call him one of my best and to share this artistic road with him.

Mood and Feel of Shoot

I've always found the moments between periods of great change, not to be wild and chaotic, but rather still and stark. It is in these moments we find the time to truthfully reflect on the human being we have become (for good or bad) and the human we aspire to be. We are never more close to self, than we are right then. It is in this magical twilight that we find the greatest possibilities for change.

Shoot Plan

Heard Jason was moving and new that the apartment he was leaving was one of those old heritage suites with high ceilings, central light source and huge windows (a photographers dream natural light location). I just brought my camera, one lens, computer and a tether cable. I kept my settings fixed (except the outdoor shot) knowing the emptiness of the apartment, all packed up, empty walls, available light and places to hide from it, would do most of my storytelling for me. I can't argue that I was also depending on Jason's experience in front of the camera, his sweet wardrobe and beautiful dog to make the shoot have that cherry on top pro feel I wanted.