Toronto Wedding Photographers, Ottawa Wedding Photographers

Lost pieces of Puzzle

AliphAurMeem — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:27:19 +0000

Found this lying on the street. Walked past it at first and then turned around and took this picture from my iPhone. Didn’t move it.

Aylmer Engagement Shoot | Usman & Afroz

AliphAurMeem — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:45:15 +0000

Hello everyone! We’re going to be out for a week. Before we leave we wanted to share a teaser from our good friends Usman and Afroz’s post-wedding shoot. Enjoy!

Aylmer Wedding Photography | Aylmer Engagement Shoot | Ottawa E-Shoot

Ottawa Wedding Photographers | Alison & Marc’s War Museum Engagement Shoot

AliphAurMeem — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:01:08 +0000

F had known Marc from back in the days and thought he’d be a great match for her cousin. So she decided to invite them both to her Halloween party and let lady Aphrodite do her magic. As Marc made his way down to F’s place, in another part of the town, Alison was trying on her pink panther costume. An hour later, as Marc wandered around F’s place, bored of explaining his costume to be that of “a guy who just came from a BBQ”, he spotted something interesting and pink. A couple of weeks later Marc and Alison went to the Ottawa Wine & Food show, where Alison learnt that Marc loves cowboy boots and that he knows everyone in Ottawa. The rest is history.

Marc is also the lead singer of a hard-rock band called Iconoclast.

F will be a maid of honor at Marc and Alison’s wedding this summer.

And because we share their initials, we believe we were destined to be their wedding photographers.

Wedding Photographers Toronto | Re-inventing Ourselves

AliphAurMeem — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:40:39 +0000

As wedding photographers, one of the things we feel the need to do, is to constantly re-invent ourselves. That means constant learning; be it shooting techniques, lighting techniques, post processing, or just improving and strengthening our visual aesthetics so we can see shots before we click. And due to the nature of wedding photography, there isn’t a whole lot of practice or experimentation that can be done in-the-field so to speak. When a couple hires us, we don’t go in and “try” stuff. At the same time, we know that we need to have an ever-growing arsenal of shots and techniques in our belt to be able to pull them out and use them in tight spots.

Consequently, we are always using each other as guinea pigs to try out new stuff on our off days. A good by-product of having to do this is that we can end up with some shots of ourselves that we would otherwise never take. Interestingly enough, we both fight to be behind the lens rather than in front of.

We took the following shots in this little corner in our building gym. This is what the corner actually looks like (sorry about the noise; iPhone picture):

These following shots were taken in this same corner without any backdrops.

In case you are wondering, Mehreen was listening to Black Eyed Peas.

Protected: Mississauga Wedding Photographers | Farah Wedding Pictures – Kariya Park

AliphAurMeem — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:13:52 +0000

Toronto Wedding Photographers | Jeet and Nidhi Wedding Reception

AliphAurMeem — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:52:20 +0000

Concluding Jeet and Nidhi’s series was their wedding reception that also took place at the Tudor Hall in Ottawa. The couple looked absolutely radiant and was all fun and laughs from their entrance right to the dance floor. We got some amazing shots. Enjoy!

Right after their entrance Jeet and Nidhi brought it to the dance floor. We love this following slow shutter capture.

The couple then took front seats in the middle of the hall while their siblings, cousins and friends did their thing.

And obviously which wedding dance performance these days is complete without a homage to the king.

Some of Jeet’s friends abroad (Australia) had sent a video containing some emotive, heartfelt, naked guy with a guitar on the beach moments.

They opted for a sit down dinner at the reception, and the food was served in these amazing little dish stands. How traditionally Indian looking.

And we’ll conclude with our favourite series from the entire wedding.

More information available at our Toronto Wedding Photographers website.

Wedding Photographer Ottawa | Jeet and Nidhi Wedding Portraits

AliphAurMeem — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:43:15 +0000

If you have been keeping up with our blog you’d remember Jeet and Nidhi’s Engagement Shoot pictures we did way back in March 2009, followed by wedding photos of the Sikh and Hindu ceremonies. Today we are going to make a two part entry. The first part is the mini portrait session that concluded their wedding day at Dow’s Lake in Ottawa.

This was the same day as the two religious ceremonies so by the time we made it to Dow’s Lake, Jeet and Nidhi had already been up and running for about nine hours and were really tired having barely had any sleep the night before. They were still the best of sports and worked with us happily.

Oakville Wedding Photographers | Sarah and Kyle’s Wedding at Glen Abbey Golf Club

AliphAurMeem — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:35:45 +0000

We covered Sarah and Kyle’s wedding at the Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville last summer.

Funny story from this wedding. Midway through the wedding, after their portraits, Kyle and Sarah were getting late for the reception, and we still had our stuff to collect. So the wedding co-ordinator offered to escort them to the reception hall in her own golf cart, leaving the couple’s golf cart with us to take back to the reception hall once we were done packing, which only took a couple of minutes. However, we got to the reception hall about ten minutes later than we should have. What held us up? Well, lets just say there were quite a few golfers who gave us the evil eye riding around in a golf cart that read “Just Married”. We took turns. It was fun! Yes, we’re ashamed at our behaviour. A little.

Toronto Wedding Photographers | Distillery District Engagement Shoot – Farid Aur Eeman

AliphAurMeem — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:21:22 +0000

AliphAurMeem Photoraphy presents Farid Aur Eeman.

She was into hip hop.
He was more rock and roll.
She called them biscuits.
He called ‘em cookies.
She wore skinny jeans.
He was all baggy pants.
She liked keema chawal.
He was down with daal gosht.

More information available at our Distillery District Wedding Pictures website www.AliphAurMeem.com

Toronto Photographers | Plan Canada Update – Meet Irfan

AliphAurMeem — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:33:18 +0000

So a couple of weeks back we wrote about our decision to get involved with Plan Canada and become foster parents to two kids; one boy, and one girl. Today we received in mail a welcome package from Plan Canada for one of the two sponsorships. (We’re assuming the second one is on it’s way even though we submitted the application back to back).

So meet Irfan, our foster child. He lives with his parents and four siblings in Burewala, Pakistan.

In the package we received Irfan’s pictures, information about his family and household, stationary for writing to Irfan, and pamphlet about his village including history, basic services, their daily lives and the problems they face and how Plan Canada is helping the village reach over these problems.

You can find out more information about Plan Canada and their services by visiting www.PlanCanada.ca.

Happy holidays everyone!