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We love it when there is a knock at the door and the FedEx guy hands us a box. It feels like we’re little kids at Christmas with such a feeling of excitement and mystery, what could it be this time… a wedding album… an engagement album? We get to see our amazing clients dream albums become a reality and all of our hard work and design come to life. We feel so incredibly lucky that we have the ability to supply our couples with some of the most gorgeous wedding and engagement albums in the world! We absolutely LOVE our album company – The Amazing Finao – and so do our clients. We were on the look out while at WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) in Vegas last year, for a company to provide the high level of quality we dream about. It was sooo amazing that we actually found an album maker that has everything we were hoping for and a great turn around time to boot!

While looking for an album supplier there were a few must have things on our check list… 1) Our albums had to be unlike anything else that was on the market 2) The quality had to be second to none 3) The print quality had to be stunningly gorgeous 4) They had to be durable. Will it last the test of time? Last but not least 5) Are they ‘GREEN’ and socially responsible like us? Do they care about the Earth??

Another thing we love are the colours, textures, patterns, various wedding and engagement album sizes and designs we can select from to really add that personal touch for our clients. This pressed leather (also available in faux leathers) pattern below is so stunning and feels soooo luxurious in your hands… We love it!! It’s buttery soft!

We have so many options for cover designs and we encourage our clients to get creative and have fun with their album covers. Sara and Hami (below) have the same cover design for their wedding album but the red and black are reversed so there is a red cover with a black stripe! Pretty cool eh? It will look great in their home on a book shelf or coffee table.

We love the fact that our albums have smooth rounded corners! This is something that is really unique and adds that extra little bit of quality and care you don’t commonly see everyday!

The wedding and engagement album bindings are so well made, you can see that these books truly are priceless heirlooms that can be passed along to generations. That really makes us have a lot of confidence in the products we are providing to our couples.

Our gorgeous professionally retouched prints are bound to our flush mount albums flawlessly, so the image is never compromised or interrupted. Because our albums are made of a high quality card stock the pages don’t bend, tear or warp. They’ll look as beautiful today as they will in years to come!! If you’d like to check out some more samples of our designs check out our sister company Rainbow Eleven as well!!

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog to take a peek at what we’re doing around here… We’ve been shooting some gorgeous weddings lately and have lots great stuff still to blog! Thank goodness we leave tomorrow for a week on a fabulous Caribbean cruise. It’s freezing here in Toronto and we need a bit of time in the sun to re-charge, get inspired and scare away the winter blahhhs! See you all next week with hopefully a tan (not a burn)!

Hey crew. Exciting news… Charlotte and I were photographed by the very talented Wei Quek last year while he was having a promo video made by the one of the most awesome wedding cinematography teams out there… Casey and Danielle of MindCastle. Check it out and let us know what you think!!

Wow, what an engagement shoot! Dave and I were sooo stoked to get a phone call last Tuesday from a fun, awesome and super-gorgeous couple living in Connecticut. The call was about engagement photos and they said that they had searched high and low looking for the photographers to capture some unique and creative images of them in the place where they shared their first date… Mont Tremblant, Quebec! We were so happy to be the perfect fit for Rachel and John and to fly out to Mont Tremblant to document this time in their life.

Rachel and John had their first date after they met each other with a group of friends snowboarding one weekend. Neither one of them ever thought that this would be the weekend that they would meet their future love.

It’s so great seeing these two together, they have so many things in common and really just have a love for adventure and the outdoors.

It’s also really nice capturing the connection they have together. It’s very clear that they each hold a special place in their heart for one another.

I love doing artistic crops and shooting moments as they happen… This was such a cute moment after they had fallen down in the snow.

I love this amazing angle Dave caught… Take a minute to look at it and try to figure out how it was shot… John and Rachel are actually standing in this shot! This is an uprooted tree we found while walking in th forest, lol! Dave has such a creative eye for this sort of thing

As photographers, we’re always trying to use new ideas and concepts to spark more creativity. For this shoot, I wanted to break out of my usual shooting style a bit. As I’ve mentioned before, I absolutely love my 50 mm 1.2 lens. It’s soo buttery and amazing, you can really get used to using the same lenses for each shoot if you’re not careful. On this shoot, I used the 24 Tilt Shift for the whole session. It was a lot of fun and went well with our couples style!

I totally love this shot below! Rachel’s eyes look phenomenal and Dave’s angle is very cool too!

This was a bit of an interesting shot!  We found some abandoned buildings and peeked in for a few quirky shots! These guys were so funny, and really hammed it up for the cameras, thanks guys lol…

You can see how much fun these guys have together!! They really have an awesome time and you can tell they are also great friends too

Mont Tremblant has to be one of the most romantic spots in Canada!! Everything looked ethereal when the air was filled with big, white fluffy snowflakes.

As you can see from our sneak peek, we knew we could have a little bit of fun with our awesome couple… We love creating something different and special for our clients.

What a great place for a first date huh?? Yes, there is even a icy slide to cruise down, so much fun!

They needed to warm up a bit after the ice slide, so they sat by the fire… They couldn’t help but laugh when the wind changed and they got smoked out after their ride, hehehe!

After a bit of shooting we had a delicious dinner together in the village. We waited for the sun to go down so we could do some night shooting (my fave)!! We love the chance to create something moody and dramatic for our clients. Rachel and John really loved the engagement shoot we did with my sister Tricia and her fiance Kris this November… It seems to be a very popular engagement session and I think our clients love night shooting as much as we do

Isn’t Rachel stunning in this shot?? We promise, we do not get our clients from modeling agency’s… Although we’ve been asked, hehe! Something that both Dave and I love creating is images with amazing bokeh – that’s the photogaphy term for the giant blurred out lights in the background… next time you’re watching a romantic movie, notice how the more romantic a scene gets, the bigger the bokeh gets!

As we wrapped the shoot, we noticed so wicked lighting coming from a nearby bar in the village. It hadn’t quite opened yet and so they were happy to let us create a few images inside while it was empty. I love these two shots, the purple and blue lights look soo cool eh? Dave went for the awesome shot above and I thought it would be cool to grab this shot below in the reflection of the mirror. What a great spot for a few cool shots!

Thanks so much to Rachel and John for trusting our vision and allowing us to create something special for you! We had a great time shooting this with you and are super excited to see the finished product from the album we’ve create for your engagement shoot Congratulations guys!!!

Here’s a sneak peek of your album while it’s away at print…. The first image in the slideshow is your image wrap cover, with the front cover being on the right, spine down the middle and back cover on the left.

G’Day everyone,

On Tuesday night this week, we got a call from Rachel and John. They’re a cool couple from Connecticut asking if it were possible for us to fly to Mt Tremblant to take some snowy engagement pictures for them. Charlotte and I did a quick search of the FlyPorter website and were excited to see that it was possible to get out this weekend!

So Friday morning we boarded our flight on Toronto island and were walking across the tarmac in Mont Tremblant less than an hour later. Gotta love Porter for it’s convenience, plus the service is great!

We met up with Rachel and John at the base of the village with lots of smiles and hugs. We could tell we’d just found some  new instant friends!

Needless to say, we had an AMAZING time driving around the mountain and walking in the forest with them. We had an awesome shoot, and have lots of great images to edit, however we wanted to share this engagement photo with you. This is one of our favourites from the shoot…

We created the above photograph by creating multiple exposures with John doing an amazing job of holding still throughout! We then overlapped them all in PhotoShop to create this rather striking and unique image!

We couldn’t be more impressed with their diversity and willingness to make this shot happen!

We’ll definitely post the rest of the shoot in another post, but before we leave you we thought you may enjoy seeing this panorama we made looking across the lake at the mountain. You can view a larger version of this Mont Tremblant Panorama by clicking here.

We’re off to the Wedding Co. show at the Carlu in Toronto now to visit a few friends and to get some more cool ideas for our wedding. Hope to see some of you there!