Let's show off those awesome photos!

Thought I would share a few ideas for displaying all those wonderful family photos, maybe taken by yours truly :)

1) How about framing and displaying? Here's a personalized Christmas ornament that is super easy to make and is also a great gift ...



I used 83mm balls and they are just right for displaying small photos.
Get acetate paper from your local art supply or office supply store.
Cut out a circle to the diameter of your glass ornament.
**Make sure to leave a small tab at the top which will go in the neck of your ball and prevent your photo from sliding around inside the ball.
Use vellum tape to adhere small photo prints to the acetate. I printed my photos out with my local inkjet printer. The resolution doesn't need to be stellar as the print is tiny and it's inside the ball.
I did one photo on each side of my acetate cut out.

Roll up the decorated sheet just enough to slide it inside the ball. The acetate is firm enough that it should regain its shape once it unfolds.

Finish off by adding some festive beads or bits of garland and replace the metal neck. Take care not to bend in the prongs of the neck cap.

** the acetate can be quite staticky, I noticed the interior of my ball seemed to get coated with this static electricity and then the little snippets of garland stuck to the walls of the ball. I have read that you can wash your sheets of acetate with soapy water to remove this and I suspect that just running a dryer sheet over them might help too.

Enjoy!!

Laila and Alex | Engagement Portrait

So excited to shoot this engagement session with Laila and Alex. Such a fun, sweet couple. They recently returned from an adventure to Machu Picchu where Alex proposed to Laila. They are planning their destination wedding for Winter 2013! Congratulations you two :)

Time Lapse - Ottawa Canada

I was recently surfing the internet and noticed the new trend towards time-lapse photography, I think it has evolved over time to become a way to showcase a city or region in a unique and captivating way. I used to think of time lapse as a way to capture a process that would normally be too lengthy to observe with the human eye , such as a flower blooming or the motion of the sun and stars. But now with creative photographers taking breathtaking photos, there are a multitude of videos that feature major urban cities like Paris, France or New York City. I decided to try my hand at it and went out with camera and tripod to see if I could uncover my local town of Ottawa Canada and bring it to you in an interesting and entertaining way. My shots were all around the downtown core of Ottawa and the daytime shots of Parliament Hill were during lunchtime yoga on the hill, sponsored by lululemon .



I took roughly 2000 images to make a video of 2.5 minutes. I used Corel VideoStudio to stitch them all together and embed an audio track (on a side note I had to recreate the video using new audio because it was blocked due to infringment on EMI). I must say I'm pretty happy with the results and would like to do it again with other locations in the city and will make more of an emphasis on the photography, rather than the point-and-click approach I used for this first try!

International Greyhound Planet Day | Ottawa Dog Photography

aCUBED studio has certainly seen a growth in pet portraits this year. That doesn't just include our equine pals but our pooches too! That's right, we've gone to the dogs.

We participated at the International Greyhound Planet Day this year, our set up was a mobile studio that consisted of 2 softboxes, a white muslin background, a brown chair that I brought from home and 23 grinning dogs! Yes, we were booked from the moment we walked in the doors until we left at 4pm! What a fun day. We raised $140 for the Greyhound Supporters!! At $5 and $10 a mini-session, that was some serious fundraising! Thank you to all my victims , errrr models for the day.

Pretty soon we will be announcing our Mutt-Cracker spectacular in time for the holidays :)

The lovely greyhounds that graced us with their presence:

The other fun-loving photogenic doggies that came out for their close-up:

Ragan and Lilly | Ottawa Equine Photography

Ragan impressed me with her horsemanship. Lilly was by far the most misbehaved of all the horses I have photographed and this young lady handled her beautifully! Well done Ragan!

Dee - lightful | Ottawa Equine Photography

Wow another great session this fall with fantastic young rider Kenzie and her horse Dee and family!